thinking about additive synth

[Hanno <shaftoe nurfuerspam de>]

When thinking of an additive synth with 64+ sliders to pull I admit, im not 
very pleased with that idea. I tried to find a way to reduce this in a more 
practical manner. And I want to tell you, what idea I had:

I think the additive module should have only around 10 slider for harmonics. 
And one slider to chose the multiplicator for the harmonics. Means if you 
chose 1 you'll have the sliders for 1st,2nd,3rd,4th,.. harmonics, if its 2 
you'll have 1, 2, 4, 6,... with 3 you got 1, 3, 6, 9, ... I think thats easy 
to implement. With the third slider you can chose where the Reihe shall 
start, for example with 5: 5, 6, 7, 8 or for 3th harmonics, starting with 5 
5, 8, 11. If this is too complicated to implement you can also take the nth 
of the Reihe as a  starting point for example for the 3th harmonics would the 
starting point 3 then be 6 (harmonic^(startingpoint-1). 

When you have simple waveforms you take one osc. If you need more osc for your 
sound you take another module and there you put in the harmonics and add them 
in a mixer. For practical matters this should work well and you are able to 
build much more complex waveforms without putting 64 osc on your screen or 
so. 

When I had the idea that it would be nice to add for example a sort of 
waveform as the origin for calculation I had that nice idea:

WHY NOT EXPAND THE OSC-MODULE?

With all the possibilities in the osc this additive component would have a 
nice synergie. And the resulting waveform will be static anyways so why dont 
we do this like this? Simple put that thing into the standard-osc?

There are many, many waveforms (I can sing you a song about organpipes, man) 
that copy the original waveform on certain harmonics again. That principle is 
very near to the aspect of physical modelling, cause the origin of a sound 
often is resonanced on certain harmonics in nature. 

This nice feature is cheap I think. Its a static one and should cost nearly no 
cpu time. 

What do you think about this?