Time-Domain Synthesis of Conical Bore Instrument Sounds
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This paper presents a series of approaches for discrete time-domain synthesis of conical bore instrument sounds. The generation of steady, selfsustained oscillations using conical waveguides is complicated by properties inherent to truncated conic frusta. Two different physical structures are discussed which can be characterized by the same circuit diagram. A more abstract and flexible “virtual” model is presented which is capable of synthesizing half-wave resonators with a rich variety of timbres. Implementations using digital waveguide techniques are described.
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