[sdiy] Karplus-Strong overblowing?

[Mike Bryant]

With modern processing meshes probably are applicable to audio as well now.  But they originated in other much slower system simulations which is where all the underlying maths was developed, partially by my wife long before they were called that 🙂

And I never said 'Waveguide Digital Networks' - that was someone else and is a bit meaningless.

But to me stating Digital Waveguides without the word Network implies a series of parallel waveguides with different characteristics possibly all summed into one at the end, nothing more.


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From: Josh Nursing <josh.nursing at gmail.com>
Sent: 04 January 2026 17:01
To: Mike Bryant <mbryant at futurehorizons.com>
Cc: Synth DIY <synth-diy at synth-diy.org>
Subject: Re: [sdiy] Karplus-Strong overblowing?

No, no, there are Digital Waveguide Meshes for audio and sound synthesis too.

They're fairly more complex to implement and very processing power-hungry, but they're used for, among other things, surface modeling for Physical Modeling or Drums and other percussive instruments.

As you can probably imagine, the junctions start getting more connections than in the simple D.W..

Josh

On Sun, 4 Jan 2026 at 11:41, Mike Bryant <mbryant at futurehorizons.com<mailto:mbryant at futurehorizons.com>> wrote:

However  the term outside of audio is Digital Waveguide Mesh.
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