Rather than using conventional sound synthesis methods the
physical modeling techniques of musical instruments
(model-based sound synthesis) are used in DIVA system. The
basic idea in physical modeling is to imitate the sound
production mechanism of an acoustic musical instrument. This
approach produces automatically sound that resembles that of
the real instruments.
The DIVA sound synthesis module consists of several physical
instrument models that are controlled with standard MIDI
interface. Currently implemented instruments are
guitar,
bass and
flute
which are synthesized in a single workstation
in real time. Remaining instruments needed, in particular
percussion sounds are generated with standard
MIDI-compatible synthesizers that is connected in to the
same workstation. The synthesised sound is delivered to the
auralization module through an optical ADAT interface.
Researchers working with sound source modelling
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