Model-Based Sound Synthesis

Physical Modeling of the Piano

A project aimed at constructing a physical model of the piano is described. Our goal is to calculate the sound produced by the instrument entirely from Newton's laws. The structure of the model is described al...

Authors: N. Giordano and M. Jiang

A Digital Synthesis Model of Double-Reed Wind Instruments

We present a real-time synthesis model for double-reed wind instruments based on a nonlinear physical model. One specificity of double-reed instruments, namely, the presence of a confined air jet in the embouc...

Authors: Ph. Guillemain

Sound Synthesis of the Harpsichord Using a Computationally Efficient Physical Model

A sound synthesis algorithm for the harpsichord has been developed by applying the principles of digital waveguide modeling. A modification to the loss filter of the string model is introduced that allows more...

Authors: Vesa Välimäki, Henri Penttinen, Jonte Knif, Mikael Laurson and Cumhur Erkut

Warped Linear Prediction of Physical Model Excitations with Applications in Audio Compression and Instrument Synthesis

A sound recording of a plucked string instrument is encoded and resynthesized using two stages of prediction. In the first stage of prediction, a simple physical model of a plucked string is estimated and the ...

Authors: Alexis Glass and Kimitoshi Fukudome

Real-Time Gesture-Controlled Physical Modelling Music Synthesis with Tactile Feedback

Electronic sound synthesis continues to offer huge potential possibilities for the creation of new musical instruments. The traditional approach is, however, seriously limited in that it incorporates only audi...

Authors: David M Howard and Stuart Rimell

A Hybrid Resynthesis Model for Hammer-String Interaction of Piano Tones

This paper presents a source/resonator model of hammer-string interaction that produces realistic piano sound. The source is generated using a subtractive signal model. Digital waveguides are used to simulate ...

Authors: Julien Bensa, Kristoffer Jensen and Richard Kronland-Martinet

Multirate Simulations of String Vibrations Including Nonlinear Fret-String Interactions Using the Functional Transformation Method

The functional transformation method (FTM) is a well-established mathematical method for accurate simulations of multidimensional physical systems from various fields of science, including optics, heat and mas...

Authors: L Trautmann and R Rabenstein

Editorial

Authors: Vesa Välimäki, Augusto Sarti, Matti Karjalainen, Rudolf Rabenstein and Lauri Savioja

Vibrato in Singing Voice: The Link between Source-Filter and Sinusoidal Models

The application of inverse filtering techniques for high-quality singing voice analysis/synthesis is discussed. In the context of source-filter models, inverse filtering provides a noninvasive method to extrac...

Authors: Ixone Arroabarren and Alfonso Carlosena

Digital Waveguides versus Finite Difference Structures: Equivalence and Mixed Modeling

Digital waveguides and finite difference time domain schemes have been used in physical modeling of spatially distributed systems. Both of them are known to provide exact modeling of ideal one-dimensional (1D)...

Authors: Matti Karjalainen and Cumhur Erkut

Physically Inspired Models for the Synthesis of Stiff Strings with Dispersive Waveguides

We review the derivation and design of digital waveguides from physical models of stiff systems, useful for the synthesis of sounds from strings, rods, and similar objects. A transform method approach is propo...

Authors: I. Testa, G. Evangelista and S. Cavaliere