[sdiy] transducers

[Richard Wentk]

At 13:40 09/11/2004 -0500, Glen wrote:
>At 11:17 AM 11/9/04 , Richard Wentk wrote:
>
> >Karplus Strong isn't so much a physical model as a physical analogy. It's
> >hugely simplified compared to what happens in a real string, which is part
> >of a real set of strings, somewhere near a real soundboard, in the real 
> world.
> >
> >It's also not a good reverb model.
> >
> >And - worse still - it's a DSP technique. ;)
>
>Come on don't be shy, tell us what you DON'T like about Karplus-Strong.

Did I not mention that its mother wears combat boots and dresses it funny? ;-)

The good thing about Karplus Strong is that it's computationally cheap. The 
bad thing is that no matter what you do to it, it always sounds like a DX7 
going 'plink.' So it was a good model for 1983, but the fact that no one 
has ever tried to sell a commercial KP synth says a lot about how 
successful it is as a modern synthesis technique.

Some of the newer phys mod tools sound much more interesting. Check out 
Tassman for some examples.

Richard