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On 5/17/05, Seth Elgart <selgart@...> wrote:

This might take some work, but if you could dig up the old issues of
Keyboard Magazine (or maybe under the older name of Contemporary
Keyboard) and look up Roger Powell's columns you'd get a great
introduction to simulating acoustic instruments. I still remember his
description of all the bits of a drum sound (i.e., stick tap, head
vibration, shell resonance) and how that opened my eyes to listening,
in a sense. I think there were some columns or articles around that
time by Larry Fast as well that went in the same direction. While not
a $100 book, those columns will certainly be a good start if you can
find them.

       Seth

 Hi,
 Another good read on this topic is "A Synthesist's Guide to Acoustic Instruments" (ISBN: 0825610893).

 This book, (by Howard Massey, Alex Noyes, Daniel Shklair),discusses the basic sonic makeup of various instruments, and describeshow to re-create these sounds on a DX7, a Phase Distortion synth(Casio), and also a subtractive synth. There was even a plasticsoundsheet with audio examples.

 Some of the patches were a bit complex using mutiple LFOs, EGs,or what-have-you.  I remember back then (1987) being a bitfrustrated trying to patch some of these sounds using an a Roland SH-1.;-)

 Andrew





I remember being frustrated back then trying to patch some of these sounds on a SH-1. ;-)

 Andrew