Plucked strings can be done using the Karplus Strong algorithm, which uses a noise excitation put through a comb filter, or something similar.
On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 2:46 PM, Alan Wolfe <alan.wo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Interesting, thanks for the info! > What is the usual technique for simulating plucked strings? (: > On Apr 5, 2015 10:36 AM, "Peter S" <peter.schoffhau...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 05/04/2015, Alan Wolfe <alan.wo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > I was wondering, does anyone know of any practical or interesting uses >> > cases of Fourier synthesis for audio? >> >> You can use it for additive synthesis and spectral oscillators. >> >> > I can already make bandlimited square, saw and triangle waves but was >> > hoping for something like guitar strings or voice, or something along >> > those lines. >> >> You can create vocoder type sounds using Fourier synthesis (assuming >> that's what you meant by 'voice'). >> >> For guitar strings - I wouldn't use that approach (though you might >> come up with some convoluted time-varying formula that sounds simlar >> to some plucked string, but that's not typically how plucked sounds >> are created). >> >> > Someone shared photosounder with me, which treats pictures as a >> > spectrogram and lets you hear the images. >> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8MCAXhEsy4 >> > >> > That's pretty interesting, but anyone else know of any other practical >> > or interesting audio use cases? >> >> Spectral morphing? >> -- >> dupswapdrop -- the music-dsp mailing list and website: >> subscription info, FAQ, source code archive, list archive, book reviews, >> dsp links >> http://music.columbia.edu/cmc/music-dsp >> http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/music-dsp >> > -- > dupswapdrop -- the music-dsp mailing list and website: > subscription info, FAQ, source code archive, list archive, book reviews, dsp > links > http://music.columbia.edu/cmc/music-dsp > http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/music-dsp -- dupswapdrop -- the music-dsp mailing list and website: subscription info, FAQ, source code archive, list archive, book reviews, dsp links http://music.columbia.edu/cmc/music-dsp http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/music-dsp