Physical Modeling / Karplus Strong
2008-07-30 by matthew carpenter
Hi all,
I just wanted to share news of my relative success at creating some new timbres based on the Karplus Strong algorithm, last night. Since I got the Wilson Analog Delay [WAD], I have been wanting to try this. Using a short burst of white noise through a very short delay and a little LP filtering with various feedback patching, I was able to get a nice blown bottle timbre. With a saw wave through a DTG used as a low-pass gate, LP filtering, and various feedback patching, I was able to get reasonably realistic plucked string timbres. My wife agreed!
On the one hand, I'm not sure I did everything 'correctly' according to the information I found on the basic KS algorithm but on the other hand, the results spoke for themselves. I'm going to spend a bit more time with it this week and see what other timbres I can wring out of these patches.
In the meantime, I was wondering if anyone else has attempted or had success with physical modeling on either the Serge system or another modular system.
Matt
I just wanted to share news of my relative success at creating some new timbres based on the Karplus Strong algorithm, last night. Since I got the Wilson Analog Delay [WAD], I have been wanting to try this. Using a short burst of white noise through a very short delay and a little LP filtering with various feedback patching, I was able to get a nice blown bottle timbre. With a saw wave through a DTG used as a low-pass gate, LP filtering, and various feedback patching, I was able to get reasonably realistic plucked string timbres. My wife agreed!
On the one hand, I'm not sure I did everything 'correctly' according to the information I found on the basic KS algorithm but on the other hand, the results spoke for themselves. I'm going to spend a bit more time with it this week and see what other timbres I can wring out of these patches.
In the meantime, I was wondering if anyone else has attempted or had success with physical modeling on either the Serge system or another modular system.
Matt