Comparison between a Hardware and a software synthesizer

The purpose of this project was to construct a modular analog Hardware synthesizer and compare it to a Software synthesizer of the same characteristics. The audio synthesis technique used for the hardware synthesizer was subtractive audio synthesis, therefore a voltage controlled oscillator was built to obtain the initial waveform and subsequent modules were constructed to get a richer sound, these modules include a voltage controlled filter, an ADSR envelope generator, a voltage controlled amplifier and a MIDI to CV as the last module used to control the other modules. In order to compare between Hardware and Software synthesizers a synthesizer was created using Synthedit which is a free synthesizer creator that can generate a synthesizer with all of the same modules used in Hardware, therefore a comprehensive comparison was achieved by inspection of the sound waveforms produced by both synthesizers.