Audio Processes

21 Waveguide Physical Models

21.1	Introduction
21.1.1	Basic Concepts
21.1.2	Structure of a Physical Model
21.1.3	Waveguides
21.2	Waveguide Plucked String
21.2.1	Simplest Plucked String
21.2.2	Body Resonances
21.2.3	Modifying the Excitation
21.2.4	Modifying the Waveguide Filtering
21.3	Waveguides for Percussion
21.3.1	Banded Waveguides
21.3.2	Waveguide Mesh Drum
21.4	Waveguide Wind Instrument
21.4.1	Basic Wind Instrument
21.4.2	Breath Input Improvements
21.4.3	Filtering and Tuning Improvements
21.5	Bowed Waveguides
21.6	Developing Processes and Learning More

21.1 Introduction

21.1.1 Basic Concepts

The synthesis techniques described in previous chapters are mainly concerned with creating particular time domain and frequency domain features, or recreating the output of a particular ...