On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 05:23:05AM +0100, David Olofson wrote: > On Friday 20 February 2004 00.06, Pete Bessman wrote: > [...] > > Writing a guitar sound synthesizer that sounds good is a very > > difficult thing. The best one out there (the proprietary Slayer > > generator) sounds pretty crummy. Since this song is industrial, > > and the main gist of it is just a few guitar chords, using just a > > few samples of the guitar sounds and some creative song > > restructuring could produce excellent results. > > Yeah, that was my first thought. > > Another approach would be to record the unprocessed guitar sound, > compress/resynthesize that one way or another (plain audio, mp3, > custom tuned compression algos, resynthesis using using physical > modelling etc in increasing order of difficulty), and then apply > guitar FX and speaker emulator plugins on the result. I think the > most important part is to preserve the subtle details from the real > guitar sound, as the lack of realism in the playing technique is what > kills most synthesized guitars I've heard so far.
Tricky. To get crunchy hard-rock guitar sounds like Pete's (nice track pete!), you'll have to realistically emulate palm-muting, which I've never heard in a synth. And how would you control the amount of muting? Map it to a CC and play a slider? -- Paul Winkler http://www.slinkp.com Look! Up in the sky! It's WIFEBEATER! (random hero from isometric.spaceninja.com)