Doepfer

General information is fine.  I'm just after a start point from which to experiment.  I got 
the idea from the Sound on Sound, Synth Secrets series, Formant Sysnthesis http://
www.soundonsound.com/sos/mar01/articles/synthsec.asp.  Given that there is something 
about the grouping of violin formants that makes the instrument sound violiny, I reckon 
having a database of different sonic reference points must be useful.  Has anyone any 
experience in this?  I have found several online articles describing how we use formants to 
identify sounds, but none show which frequencies relate to which sounds (except a bit the 
Synth Secrets giving vowel formants).

Yours Aye

Stuadh

--- In Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com, "untiedstates" <untiedstates@...> wrote:
>
> Whatever you might find would likely only be general information, 
> because formants are the characteristic resonances of individual 
> instruments or systems.. in other words, from violin to violin the 
> formants would be different, just as from one person's voice to 
> another person's voice the formants would be different. 
> 
> You could find frequency ranges for different instruments, but each 
> instrument's formants are like its fingerprint, unique to that 
> particular instrument.
> 
> --- In Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com, "stuadh" <stuadh@> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> > 
> >   Does anyone have a list of the formants present in acoustic 
> instruments and other non-
> > musical sounds?  I am looking to expand my sound design knowledge 
> and having a ready 
> > guide would be very useful.
> > 
> > Yours Aye
> > 
> > Stuadh
> >
>