[LAU] Re: Are there any good, free, Aeolus-style violin synths?

On Tue, Mar 26, 2024 at 11:14:02PM -1000, david wrote: I assume you want a solo violin sound. For 'string sections' - many violins playing unisono or simple chords - most synths have approximate solutions or varying quality. The way organ pipes and violins produce sound is fundamentally different, so 'the same idea' - whatever you mean by that - probably isn't going to work. While an organ pipe sound will have some random variations even after the initial 'attack', violin sound is continuously variable, controlled by - finger position - finger pressure - bow position - bow pressure - bow angle - bow speed and probably others. So any violin synth offering the same amount of configurability as Aeolus offers for organ pipes will require those inputs, and define how they are influencing the sound. A modular synth with lots of 'fundamental' modules (VCO, VCA, VCF, ADSR, LFO) is probably the way to go, the other alternative being real physical modelling which can get very complex. Playing either of these on a keyboard will mean that many of the 'physical' inputs will need to be replaced by combinations of ADSR and LFO, in turn controlled by note events and one or two keyboard controllers. Ciao, -- FA