[linux-audio-dev] Some music made with Linux

[Paul Winkler]

On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 05:23:05AM +0100, David Olofson wrote:
> On Friday 20 February 2004 00.06, Pete Bessman wrote:
> [...]
> > Writing a guitar sound synthesizer that sounds good is a very
> > difficult thing.  The best one out there (the proprietary Slayer
> > generator) sounds pretty crummy.  Since this song is industrial,
> > and the main gist of it is just a few guitar chords, using just a
> > few samples of the guitar sounds and some creative song
> > restructuring could produce excellent results.
> 
> Yeah, that was my first thought.
> 
> Another approach would be to record the unprocessed guitar sound, 
> compress/resynthesize that one way or another (plain audio, mp3, 
> custom tuned compression algos, resynthesis using using physical 
> modelling etc in increasing order of difficulty), and then apply 
> guitar FX and speaker emulator plugins on the result. I think the 
> most important part is to preserve the subtle details from the real 
> guitar sound, as the lack of realism in the playing technique is what 
> kills most synthesized guitars I've heard so far.

Tricky. To get crunchy hard-rock guitar sounds like Pete's
(nice track pete!), you'll have to realistically emulate palm-muting, 
which I've never heard in a synth. And how would you control the
amount of muting? Map it to a CC and play a slider?

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