When a musician is presented with an unfamiliar instrument, the natural reaction is to
investigate its properties and musical possibilities. If the instrument in question is a member …

We present the first real-time technique to synthesize full-bandwidth sounds for 2D virtual
wind instruments. A novel interactive wave solver is proposed that synthesizes audio at …

The system formed by a trumpet player and his/her instrument can be seen as a non-linear
dynamic system and modeled by physical equations. Numerical tools can then be used to …

Sound synthesis is the process of generating artificial sounds through some form of
simulation or modelling. This article aims to identify which sound synthesis methods achieve …

Digital versions of musical instruments have been created for several decades, and for good
reasons! They are more compact, more easy to maintain, and less difficult to play than their …

Numerical modeling of wave propagation in acoustic tubes is a subject of longstanding
interest, particularly for enclosures of varying cross section, and especially when …

This article develops the design of a sound synthesis model of a woodwind instrument by
modal decomposition of the input impedance, taking into account viscothermal losses as …

This paper is concerned with real-time simulation and synthesis of finite difference models of
musical instruments implemented on Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) hardware. The …

Physical modelling is a sophisticated synthesis technique, often used in the design of Digital
Musical Instruments (DMIs). Some of the most precise physical simulations of sound …

In this paper, a complete simulation of a trombone using finite-difference time-domain
(FDTD) methods is proposed. In particular, we propose the use of a novel method to …