Bowing Control

• In general, the quality of physical modeling synthesis algorithms is highly dependent on physically realistic parameter control. This is especially evident with bowed-string models.

• An interesting bowing control mechanism is reported by S. Serafin, R. Dudas, M. Wanderley, X. Rodet, Gestural control of a real-time physical model of a bowed string instrument. In Proceedings of the 1999 International Computer Music Conference, Bejing, China, October 1999.

• A much more refined control of the bow parameters is reported by Maestre, E., Blaauw, M., Bonada, J., Guaus, E., Pérez, A. Statistical modeling of bowing control applied to violin sound synthesis. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, Vol. 18, No. 4, pp. 855-871, 2010.