[Stk] Modal Synthesis

[Perry Cook]

Yep, STK provides lots of means for Modal Synthesis.

ModalBar is exactly that, a modal model (4 modes) with stick impact
excitation, and with simple parametric controls over the excitation
and the modal strike position.  You can change the modal gains and 
Qs, and you could replace the excitation with essentially any sound 
file, or hack the source to replace the excitation with exponentially-
decaying filtered noise, or whatever.  And/or you could hack the
source to add more modes, or just use N ModalBars (as I often
do) to add more modes.

BandedWG adds even more physics (group delay per mode) to
the modal model, and lets you bow the physics in addition to
whacking it.

You can also build your own modal models from resonant filters,
which are built into STK.

References See:  

Physically informed sonic modeling (phism): Synthesis of percussive sounds
PR Cook, ICMC 1996 and CMJ 1997    ICMC Version here:
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/p/pod/dod-idx/physically-informed-sonic-modeling-phism-percussive.pdf?c=icmc;idno=bbp2372.1996.071

Real Sound Synthesis for Interactive Appllications
P. Cook, AK Peters/CRC Press, 2002
Modal Synthesis starts on page 43 and reappears off and on for the rest of the book

PRC

 
> On Apr 24, 2015, at 6:55 AM, Gary Scavone <gary at ccrma.Stanford.EDU> wrote:
> 
> Hi Alexandros,
> 
> I’m not sure where you would have read that you cannot perform physics-based sound synthesis in STK.  There are a lot of physical models in STK.  And there are a variety of Modal models, which include an impact signal (essentially a dry stick hit, saved in an audio file).
> 
> —gary
> 
>> On Apr 24, 2015, at 9:11 AM, Alexandros Papanikolaou <alexandros.a.papanikolaou at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I am intrested in physically based sound synthesis but from what I read and understood it's not possible via stk. Am I Right?
>> Except that, is there any function by which I can model an impact force on a modal object? For example in Van den Doel JASS examples: http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~kvdoel/jass/bell/bell.html
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