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Agreed, it'll be nice to see what really into-it people come up with on Ami audio. Re: direct audio synthesis, the complexity of it depends upon the model from which you start. Doing polyphonic stuff with a wavetable is, as you have demonstrated, not the world's most straightforward thing to do. Direct computation, on a sample-to-sample basis rather than a cycle-to-cycle basis, avoids that particular set of problems. Of course, not all CPU's are up to direct synthesis. And there are synthesis techniques other than harmonic additive which can get more interesting results for the same amount of CPU horsepower– like FM, for instance, the basic algorithm of which only requires 1 multiply and 1 addition per sample period per operator per voice. Not quite sure I agree about dynamic timbres coming for free, since fractional envelope values would have to be updated every time you touch the wavetable (for your point to be valid)…enlighten me? Hey, it's nice to have people to talk to this kinda stuff about!!