Physical Modeling

Physical modeling is an approach to sound synthesis that has gained popularity over the past 30 years, offering synthesis algorithms that have “natural” control inputs (i.e., breath pressure, bow pressure) and time-varying responses. For compositional purposes, they are sometimes “driven” with unnatural control values to produce quasi-physical, yet unusual, sounds. Physical modeling techniques generally require a good understanding of both physics and digital signal processing, often making the development of new physical modeling algorithms a complicated process.



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