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A question on generating sound.....

popinfresh · 2005-10-22 16:39:39

A question for people who know how to use synthesizers etc.. Ok, so I'm trying to make a piano sound from scratch, and by that I'm attempting to make it by the addition of sine waves. (In matlab) I'm taking into consideration, each harmonic and it's relative amplitude and the ADSR, but when i generate it it sounds…

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A question for people who know how to use synthesizers etc..

Ok, so I'm trying to make a piano sound from scratch, and by that I'm attempting to make it by the addition of sine waves. (In matlab)

I'm taking into consideration, each harmonic and it's relative amplitude and the ADSR, but when i generate it it sounds absolutely nothing like a piano. My question is this,
what other factors do i have to take into consideration when attempting to emulate a piano, or any instrument for that matter???

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#2 22-10-2005 4:56pm

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what ye wanna do is get a soft or hardware synth that models a piano, and deconstruct it to see how its done

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#3 22-10-2005 9:35pm

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There are a series of articles in Sound on Sound relating to the complexities of synthesising a piano sound; start at http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/Oct02/articles/synthsecrets10.asp. I think the articles are based on substractive synthesis though.

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