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Digital Waveguide Synthesis
Selected Tutorials, Papers, Programming Examples,
(Some) Sound Samples, and Related Links

Subtopics

• Simple Interactive Waveguide Synthesis Examples
• Commuted Waveguide Synthesis (with some Sound Examples)
• Sound Examples
• More Sound Examples (WASPAA-2005 presentation)

Online Tutorials and Publications

• A Basic Introduction to Waveguide Synthesis
• Animation of an ideal string and its corresponding digital waveguide simulation
• Online book: "Physical Audio Signal Processing: For Virtual Musical Instruments and Audio Effects".
• Online paper: "Aspects of Digital Waveguide Networks for Acoustic Modeling Applications"

Journal Articles

• Physical Modeling Using Digital Waveguides (Winter '92 Computer Music Journal tutorial)
  • Compressed PostScript version: pmudw.ps.gz
  • PDF version
  • Programming example in C for plucked strings
• Physical Modeling Synthesis Update
• Circulant and Elliptic Feedback Delay Networks for Artificial Reverberation
• Truncated Infinite Impulse Response (TIIR) Filters ( PDF or Compressed PostScript only)
  • Conference paper applying TIIR filters to horn modeling

Conference Papers

• Papers on Commuted Synthesis (with some Sound Examples)
• The Second-Order Digital Waveguide Oscillator
• The 2D Digital Waveguide Mesh (PDF format only)
• The 3D Tetrahedral Digital Waveguide Mesh (PDF format only)
• Viewpoints on the History of Digital Synthesis (Keynote Paper, ICMC-91)

Related Links

• Theory
  • David P. Berners home page (see recent thesis on horn modeling and related conference papers)
  • Stefan Bilbao's recent thesis on wave scattering methods for solving partial differential equations
  • Gary Scavone's publications
  • Vesa Välimäki's publications
  • Lauri Savioja's publications
  • Tero Tolonen's publications
  • Acoustics Lab Research, EE Dept., Helsinki University of Technology (HUT)
• Software
  • The Synthesis Tool Kit (STK): Our preferred software prototyping environment in C++ for waveguide synthesis, emerging synthesis methods, and digital audio effects
  • International Wind Synthesis Organization (http://www.windsynth.org/)