[sdiy] Taking a Step towards - - --((FUTURE-PREDICTIONS))-- - -

[Richard Wentk]

At 08:30 12/01/2004 -0600, TIm Daugard wrote:
> >elctric string bass would easily require as much as 3900 to 4000 partials
>
> > If the partials are harmonic - which mostly they are - that would mean a
>
>Partials from a string aren't pure harmonics. Theory says the overtones 
>would be
>pure multiples. Strings have has, however so there are many non-harmonic
>partials that go into the tone. The purest strings in terms of partials 
>are the
>top two stings on a guitar. For the rest, on guitar and bass, the wound 
>strings
>have all sorts of effects on the sound.

Perhaps, but you can still get useful simulations if you keep only to 
harmonic partials. There are various tools which let you experiment with 
this, and in practice even a bell still sounds surprisingly bell like if 
you constrain all the partials to whole number multiples of the fundamental.

Richard