Physical modeling for sound synthesis is a technique in which musical acoustic equations are simulated by computer to synthesize sound. In prior decades, either offline simulation or powerful desktop or laptop computers were required in order to synthesize high-quality sound. However, increasingly small and relatively low power embedded computers are presently becoming available that can natively perform real-time simulations using floating-point computations. For example, the Raspberry Pi 2 is an embedded computer, which incorporates a quad-core 1GHz embedded microprocessor, and currently costs only US$35. This implies that physical modeling sound synthesis may become accessible to a wide range of people for many diverse applications. Furthermore, larger and larger numbers of virtual masses will be computable in real time. A poster with embedded Raspberry Pi 2 and amplified speaker is presented that uses Synth-A-Modeler to simulate a wide variety of physical models in real time.
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April 01 2016
Physical modeling sound synthesis using embedded computers: More masses for the masses
Edgar Berdahl;
Edgar Berdahl
Music, Louisiana State Univ., 102 New Music Bldg., Baton Rouge, LA 70803, [email protected]
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Matthew Blessing
Matthew Blessing
Music, Louisiana State Univ., 102 New Music Bldg., Baton Rouge, LA 70803, [email protected]
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J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 139, 2204 (2016)
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Edgar Berdahl, Matthew Blessing; Physical modeling sound synthesis using embedded computers: More masses for the masses. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 1 April 2016; 139 (4_Supplement): 2204. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4950576
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