[sdiy] Karplus-Strong overblowing?

[Josh Nursing]

And I made a mistake myself. The other tech is named "Wave Digital
Filters", not "Waveguide Digital Filters".

They were developed by Fettweis quite a long time ago.

Josh

On Sun, 4 Jan 2026 at 12:10, Mike Bryant <mbryant at futurehorizons.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
>
> ------------------------------
> *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>
> wrote:
>
>
> However  the term outside of audio is Digital Waveguide Mesh.
>
>
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