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

[Joern Nettingsmeier]

Paul Winkler wrote:
> 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?

<p class="heretic">
why spend precious coding time faking electric guitars when there 
are so may excellent and highly trained guitarists around?
nothing against electronic sounds where they are appropriate. but 
when you need a crunchy guitar, simulators strike me as the wrong 
tool for the job. :-D
</p>


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