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BTW, in general, harmonic additive synthesis hardware has consisted of a large number of independent sinewave generators, either hardware oscilators or software sinewave generators, being generated or summed in realtime, so the problem of choosing wavetable lengths to fit least-common-multiples hasn't had to be faced very often. In fact, doing it in a fixed table as has been discussed here kind of misses the whole point of harmonic additive synthesis, which is: DYNAMIC timbres, with a fairly intuitive control mechanism. A steady-state tone is just going to sit there, whether you've computed it from added sine waves or from FM equations or whatever. The big challenge to Amiga audio programmers is: How shall we produce interesting dynamic timbres, and still have enough horsepower left over to do anything else? Hmm, let's dig out those Copper documents…