MOTM

This and many other articles from Keyboard are contained in a Hal Leonard 
book called "Synthesizer Technique". Lots of articles by Moog, Patrick 
Gleeson, Craig Anderton, Roger Powell, and others. All articles written 
between '78 and '86; plenty of info on analog techniques.

nathan


>I promised someone on this list I would scan a really old article from 
>Keyboard magazine by Bob Moog about String Tone Simulation.  I figured 
>others 
>might want to read it too.  It describes the tonal characteristics of a real 
>violin, mentions a 36 band resonant filter that was once built to simulate a 
>violin body, and talks about possible ways to fake violin tones using 
>effects 
>devices.  I haven't read it in a long time, but seem to remember Moog saying 
>that really short delays creating a comb filter effect DO NOT work well 
>because of how the peaks and notches line up, they cause a metalic tube type 
>effect.  I however DO use them.  My theory was that if I used several of 
>them 
>tuned differently and mixed them together, it would randomize those peaks 
>and 
>notches and get rid of the metalic quality.  It seems to work for me.
>
>Remember also that Moog used to make a "String Filter".  I believe MoogCE 
>can 
>still make them.
>
>If you want to read it, get it now.  I may be dropping my AOL account by the 
>end of the month and it will be gone.  The link is:
>
>http://members.aol.com/elhardt/stringtone.jpg
>
>
>Also of possible interest are 3D frequency/time plots of good and poor 
>quality violins I found on the web.  Link is:
>
>http://www.cc.jyu.fi/~hojakr/violin1.html
>
>
>-Elhardt