SIGNAL- AND PHYSICS-BASED SOUND SYNTHESIS OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

Abstract

In this paper signal-based and physics-based sound synthesis methods are described, with a particular emphasis on our own results achieved in the recent years. The applications of these methods are given for the case of organ, piano, and violin synthesis. The two techniques are compared based on these case studies, showing that in some cases the physics-based, in other cases the signal-based realization is more advantageous. As a theoretical result, we show that the two methods can be equivalent under special circumstances.