Guitar String Synthesis

Americans Kevin Karplus and Alex Strong have devised a tehcnique for simulating guitar strings by computer.

The Karplus-Strong technique does not do much more than recreate guitar sounds, however, it does this quite well.

How does String Synthesis work?
The Karplus-Strong tehcnique is an example of physical modelling. This means that we attempt to calculate how an actual guitar string behaves using physics and mathematics.
This allows us to make sounds that sound quite genuine.

This program does not have a breakpoint-curve, since we are only setting frequency, amplitude, and decay time. If you want to do pitchbend, you can use the Spectrum Shift-program.

Values that may be set:
Frequency controls the pitch.
Amplitude controls the volume.
Decay time controls how long it will take for the sound to die out.

Here are two sounds that have been made using guitar string synthesis:
Guitar string 1
Guitar string 2

Strings sound may be filtered in order to sound like different guitars.