Digital sound synthesis has long been approached using standard digital filtering
techniques. Newer synthesis strategies, however, make use of physical descriptions of …

Publisher Summary This chapter explains the exploration of timbre by analysis and
synthesis. Timber is referred as the quality of sound. It is the perceptual attribute that helps in …

Karlheinz Brandenburg and Mark Kahrs With the advent of multimedia, digital signal
processing (DSP) of sound has emerged from the shadow of bandwidth limited speech …

0 INTRODUCTION The conventional frequency scale used in digital signal-processing(DSP)
systems is linear in relation to The human auditory system is a very complex ana- the hertz …

Interactive systems, virtual environments, and information display applications need
dynamic sound models rather than faithful audio reproductions. This implies three levels of …

Scattering-based numerical methods are increasingly applied to the numerical simulation of
distributed time-dependent physical systems. These methods, which possess excellent …

This article describes physical modelling techniques that can be used for simulating musical
instruments. The methods are closely related to digital signal processing. They discretize the …

In many research fields of engineering and acoustics, the image-source model represents
one of the most popular tools for the simulation of sound fields in virtual reverberant …

The emergence of what is called physical modeling and model-based sound synthesis is
closely related to the development of computational simulations of plucked string …

Percussion instruments represent a broader spectrum of physical configurations than any
other instrument family. Orchestration books, acoustics books, and taxonomies of …