Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Some music made with Linux
From: Paul Winkler (pw_lists_AT_slinkp.com)
Date: Fri Feb 20 2004 - 18:25:52 EET
On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 05:23:05AM +0100, David Olofson wrote:
> On Friday 20 February 2004 00.06, Pete Bessman wrote:
> [...]
> > Writing a guitar sound synthesizer that sounds good is a very
> > difficult thing. The best one out there (the proprietary Slayer
> > generator) sounds pretty crummy. Since this song is industrial,
> > and the main gist of it is just a few guitar chords, using just a
> > few samples of the guitar sounds and some creative song
> > restructuring could produce excellent results.
>
> Yeah, that was my first thought.
>
> Another approach would be to record the unprocessed guitar sound,
> compress/resynthesize that one way or another (plain audio, mp3,
> custom tuned compression algos, resynthesis using using physical
> modelling etc in increasing order of difficulty), and then apply
> guitar FX and speaker emulator plugins on the result. I think the
> most important part is to preserve the subtle details from the real
> guitar sound, as the lack of realism in the playing technique is what
> kills most synthesized guitars I've heard so far.
Tricky. To get crunchy hard-rock guitar sounds like Pete's
(nice track pete!), you'll have to realistically emulate palm-muting,
which I've never heard in a synth. And how would you control the
amount of muting? Map it to a CC and play a slider?
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