The Body Model

• Methods were previously discussed for modeling the string instrument body.

• A digital filter representation of a string instrument body must be of high order given the complicated nature of its spectral “signature”.

• Commuted synthesis offers an efficient means for making use of a measured or synthesized body impulse response in plucked or struck string synthesis.

• Commuted synthesis, however, is possible only with linear systems.

• Julius Smith has developed a nonlinear commuted synthesis approach to bowed-string synthesis, with code examples provided.