[sdiy] questions on string synthesizers

[Tom Wiltshire]

DON'T CROSS THE STREAMS!

On 20 Feb 2017, at 17:39, Ingo Debus <igg.debus at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
>> Am 20.02.2017 um 08:32 schrieb Elain Klopke <functionofform at gmail.com>:
>> 
>>> I think they are essentially the same as old organs - the basic approach is to generate a square wave for each note, then optionally use a fixed filter (often just a resistor and a capacitor/inductor) to produce various different tones, then optionally combine those tones for each key to produce different timbres.  
>> 
>> Is there anywhere that shows what filter frequencies to use for what instrument? 
> 
> Convolution is another option. You can get stunning results when convoluting a sawtooth with the impulse response of a string instrument’s body (violin, guitar, double bass…).
> 
> Now, if there was a way to find out how to build an analog filter that sounds similar to a FIR filter with a given impulse response…
> 
> Ingo
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