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The sound synthesizer has changed the way the musical sound is produced by offering nearly unlimited amount of musical timbres. Unfortunately, many of the current synthesizers lack the subjective ”warmth” of the acoustic instruments. The current paper describes a new algorithm which produces aesthetically pleasant sounds. There is also described a simple approach for synthesizing sounds, optimized for the generation of the ensemble sounds. This approach can be used in other sound synthesis/sound processing algorithms to acheive a great degree of perceived quality.

Key words and phrases. sound synthesis, harmonics, fast Fourier transform.