Flexible Software Framework for Modal Synthesis
| dc.creator | Bisnovatyi, Ilia | |
| dc.date | 2001-03-05 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T03:17:00Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T03:17:00Z | |
| dc.description | Modal synthesis is an important area of physical modeling whose exploration in the past has been held back by a large number of control parameters, the scarcity of general-purpose design tools and the difficulty of obtaining the computational power required for real-time synthesis. This paper presents an overview of a flexible software framework facilitating the design and control of instruments based on modal synthesis. The framework is designed as a hierarchy of polymorphic synthesis objects, representing modal structures of various complexity. As a method of generalizing all interactions among the elements of a modal system, an abstract notion of {\it energy} is introduced, and a set of energy transfer functions is provided. Such abstraction leads to a design where the dynamics of interactions can be largely separated from the specifics of particular modal structures, yielding an easily configurable and expandable system. A real-time version of the framework has been implemented as a set of C++ classes along with an integrating shell and a GUI, and is currently being used to design and play modal instruments, as well as to survey fundamental properties of various modal algorithms. | |
| dc.description | Presented at DAFx00, http://profs.sci.univr.it/~dafx/DAFx-final-papers.html | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0103006 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0103006 | |
| dc.identifier | in Proceedings of COST-G6 Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx-00), Dec 7-9, 2000, Verona, Italy | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/30564 | |
| dc.subject | Sound | |
| dc.subject | H 5.5; I 6.3 | |
| dc.title | Flexible Software Framework for Modal Synthesis | |
| dc.type | text |