Hi,

I've been looking for some basic tutorials on tone within PD. I've gone through the basics of complex waves, envelopes, filters etc. I now want to create more complex instrument tones such as guitar, sitar, etc I've done some googling and searched the forum for tutorials but things either seem to be to basic or too complicated - any suggestions?

Cheers

Hi,
maybe Karplus-Strong is the answer to guitar and plucked sounds on pd
search the forum or try:

http://blog.loomer.co.uk/2010/02/karplus-strong-guitar-string-synthesis.html

or http://www.lubbertdas.org/pd/guitar2.html

not a PD resource, but it's quite easy to convert the logic here into pd patches:

http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/allsynthsecrets.htm

thanks very much, will check these resources out asap!

speaking of guitar tone, have you seen this ?

Dude, kyro! Thanks for posting that! I'm working on a guitar physical model for my thesis, and that was actually quite informative. It's nice to see some actual displacement waves and compare them to what I've made.

Actually, its not the physical movement you see. It's because of the way the video is captured line after line, but it's a bit above my understanding... Anyway, I tried to reproduce the patterns we see on the strings, as a waveform and it was quite convincing.

For the real movement of a guitar string measured with a laser vibrometer: