[sdiy] Other resonator designs

[Scott Nordlund]

> Personally, I'm not particularly fussy about pure formant synthesis.
> It seems reasonable to me to have a complex system generating the
> sound that gets 'processed' by the body. After all, a piano mechanism
> isn't exactly straightforward, even before we get into the details of
> formant filtering caused by the soundboard and whatever other
> resonances there are. Secondly, (and again very personally) I'm
> mostly interested in abstract sound synthesis, so I'm not attempting
> to design a synth that sounds exactly like a 'cello. However, I would
> like to design a synth that has the *depth* and *richness* of a
> cello's tone, and I suspect that body modelling is quite a big part
> of that. Adding an artificial body model consisting of a number of
> resonances (and notches too, don't forget them) seems to offer
> another layer of depth to synthetic sound.
>
> A big positive to all resonators from me.

There's also the added benefit that imposing a formant on something 
sort of allows a sound to occupy its own spectral space, which can 
help when attempting to fit something into a mix.


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