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Musical Sound Synthesis by Finite Differences Method: PC-Implementation and New Developments

Authors: Guyard, I.; Chaigne, A.

AES Convention 84 · Paper 2622 · March 1988

Abstract

The equation of vibration for a viscoelastic string coupled with a resonance box is solved by numerical methods. Several mechanical quantities such as displacement, force, and velocity at the bridge are investigated. The solutions are used to synthesize musical sounds by taking further nonlinearities and coupling between several strings into account in order to improve the quality of the sounds produced. The synthesis program, written in PASCAL on a PC/AT computer, is an efficient tool for interactive physical and psychoacoustical research.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 84
AES Convention
84
Paper number
2622
Publication date
March 6, 1988
Session subject
Music and Computers
Affiliation
Ecole nationale Superieure des Te1ecommunications, Paris, France (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Convention Paper