Strings

String modeling has been our raison d'être since the beggining. After many tries, changes, rewritting, analysis, and more than 5 years of develoment, we finally reached our aim : a functional string that replicates the sound and behaviour of a real string.

Here are two examples of electric guitar sounds with real time sliding :

Neck sound :

Bridge sound :

While it was developped to generate eguitar sounds, as it is reactive synthesis (meaning every step has been synthesised, not just an overall output approximation), by removing/adding/tweaking some of the process steps, it can generate other string based sounds.

Changing string tuning and gauge, it can achieve realistic bass guitar sounds:

Bass slur :

Removing the pickups and making the string sound pass through a body emulation, it can produce some acoustic guitar tones:

Acoustic guitar with sympathetic resonance :

Other sounds achieved using variations of a string model :

Piano low note :

Piano high pitched note :

A real guitar (Ibanez jazz semi hollow) through a virtual spring reverb (with real time tweaking):