MUS420 Lecture
Piano Synthesis

Julius O. Smith III (jos at ccrma)
Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA)
Department of Music, Stanford University

Detailed Contents (and Navigation)

• The Piano
  • Acoustics of the Piano
  • Piano Synthesis
  
  
• Commuted Synthesis
  • Features of Commuted Synthesis
  
  
• Commuted Piano Synthesis
  • Synthesis of One Hammer-String Interaction Pulse
  • Synthesis of Multiple Hammer-String Interaction Pulse
  • Complete Piano Model
  • Simplified Variations of the Commuted Piano
  • Three General Interaction Pulses
  • Differentially Filtered Interaction Pulses
  • Striking a Digital Waveguide String
  • Equivalent Computational Models
  • Use of a Tapped Delay Line
  • Excitation Factoring
  • Piano and Harpsichord Sound Examples
  
  
• The Ideal (Lossless) Stiff String
• Nonparametric Model of Measured Piano-String Frequency Response
  (from Julien Bensa's thesis)
  • Corresponding Impulse Response
  
  
• Stiff-String Loop-Filter Identification
  • Loop-Filter Design Methods
  • Order Estimation
  
  
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