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[motm] Synthesized Violin Timbre (possibly interesting)

2002-12-28 by elhardt@att.net

I'm in the middle of my so called Violin Project, which is to study in detail 
the timbre of the violin and cello for synthesized recreations so real you'd 
never know you're listening to a synth. Some of this involves the MOTM, but the 
uploaded ViolinCompare.mp3 in the files section doesn't. But if you want to 
hear a patch so complex that it uses the 105 (equal to about 138 regular 
modules) modules on the Nord Modular and needs to span 3 voices in parallel 
just to generate a single note with all the microscopic detail, animation, 
noise, randomness, and woodyness of a real violin, then give it a listen.  It 
plays two notes, the first tone is the first 18 harmonics of a real violin 
note, the second is a Nord Modular patch emulating that note.  Virtually dead 
on if you ask me.

Now back to work to try to process the motm to sound similar.

-Elhardt

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