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Convention Paper

Physical Modeling of Plucked String Instruments with Application to Real-Time Sound Synthesis

Authors: Välimäki, Vesa; Huopaniemi, Jyri; Karjalainen, Matti; Jánosy, Zoltán

AES Convention 98 · Paper 3956 · February 1995

Abstract

The authors have developed efficient DSP algorithms for real-time synthesis of plucked string instruments, such as the acoustic guitar, mandolin, and kantele-a traditional Finnish zither. The paper discusses how nonlinear effects due to string terminations can be incorporated in the discrete-time models and describes the implementation using multirate techniques. Several approaches to control the physical model are described.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 98
AES Convention
98
Paper number
3956
Publication date
February 6, 1995
Session subject
Electronic Music and Musical Instrument Acoustics
Affiliation
Helsinki University of Technology, Finland ; Stanford University, CA ; Technical University of Budapest, Hungary (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Convention Paper