So I learned about Additive Synthesis, and I think you all should too.

[Amaroq Starwind]

So there's a musician on YouTube who made some interesting videos explaining different types of synthesis, showing off new physical synthesizers that have come out, etc... but one video in particular which blew my mind was the one about Additive Synthesis.

Here is a link to the video: https://youtu.be/wGkdb6YlLgg

What are everybody's thoughts on this information?

[Saga Musix]

Please put a regular link, YouTube embeds won't work for privacy and securit reasons.

The most important takeaway the video hopefully gives is that additive synthesis is pretty tedious, which is why there aren't many popular synthesizers using this technique (the only I can think of is the Kawai K5000).
However, knowing how it works can help approximating certain sounds even with classic subtractive synthesizers that have more than one layer, because in the end having a patch consisting of multiple layers is just a very limited additive synthesis setup.
I've used that technique before on subtractive sample-based synths with multiple sine layers transposed in a way that effectively represents harmonics, thus allowing to create a very specific sound spectrum that would not have been possible to achieve with that synthesizer in any other way.

[Amaroq Starwind]

I've fixed the link! But the takeaway I got from this information is that additive synthesis could be used to reconstruct any waveform with way less stored information than current methods.