Conclusions and Further Reading

This article provided an introductory overview, summary of recent advances, and a number of pointers into the research literature relevant to computational modeling of acoustic musical instruments for purposes of musical performance in real time. We close with some pointers to recently published books in this area.

A recent book by Cook [41] is devoted to sound synthesis related to physical models. It is especially useful for getting going quickly with effective and practical synthesis models. While Cook is also the principal author of the Synthesis Tool Kit (STK), the book is written independently of the STK.

A set of three interlinked books on physical modeling synthesis (primarily digital waveguide synthesis) and associated signal processing has been published to the Web in HTML format [162,161,160]. Much of this article can be viewed as a summary of portions of [162].