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articles: violin and sitar strings,how the sound is produced

Archive · 2005 7 old posts

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angstrom ·

Violin: http://plus.maths.org/issue31/features/woodhouse/

interesting for the sound synthesist, well to me anyway 🙂 - so I thought I'd pass it on.

these things help me understand how to produce 'musical' synths that go beyond the old 3 osc vcf vca mentality toward something that is not fully 'modelled' but takes inspiration from the real world.

I have another link about how the bridge of a sitar modifies the sound / wave shape at the end of a cycle, well actually it is a guide to ruining your sitar bridge - but still informative to synthesists I think http://www.buckinghammusic.com/sitar/sittut/jaw.html

I play sitar and had to tinker with my Jawari myself recently.

The Sound Scientist ·

This is some cool stuff!! I play the violin and let me tell you it sure is hard... I've had an idea for some time of making a hybrid synth..What I mean by this is I'd like to take my regular wav files of me playing the violin and mix them with a synthesized waveform...Basically you'd be able to adjust the vol of the two signals independently and furthermore mutate the signals... I think this would offer endless possibilities of full,unique sounding strings.... My synthesis knowledge needs some advancement but I'm on my way quickly...

Let me know if this sounds like a good idea... Peace and Science

I'd like to see more articles on how to simulate symphonic strings!!! 😉 Thanx!!!

Tom7777 ·

I'd like to see more articles on how to simulate symphonic strings!!! 😉

Some more links for string instruments -

http://www-ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/wave ... tring.html http://www-ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/wave ... tring.html http://www-ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/wave ... tring.html http://www-ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/wave ... ngs_I.html http://www-ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/wave ... rings.html

The Sound Scientist ·

🙂 😀 😉

oddson ·

That is very cool! Great find Dan.

Tom7777 ·

Im glad that you find the links usefull 😀

The Sound Scientist ·

http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~schoner/pa ... S-2001.pdf

This link is easily understood for me.... Some of the other links only give me a partial understanding of how to create a complex synthesis engine..I found this one to be the most interesting to me at the moment...There are certain orders to things that I have not thought of prior to reading this...I hope you guys find this helpful or usefull... Peace and Science ... ,Trying to make a realistic synthesized violin, cello, viola, sure is hard!!!!!! 😕

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