Virtual musical instruments – natural sound using physical models *

Physical modelling of musical instruments is an exciting thus the method that is used for producing the digital new paradigm in digital sound synthesis. The basic idea is sound signal. to imitate the sound production mechanism of an acoustic A fundamental difference between the physical musical instrument using a computer program. The sound modelling approach and other synthesis techniques is produced by such a model will automatically resemble that that the former tries to imitate the properties of the of the real instrument, if the model has been devised in a sound source (type of excitation and resonator, proper way. In this article we review the history and present resonances of a soundboard, etc.), while the latter techniques of physical modelling. It appears that the many focus on the properties of the sound signal heard by seemingly very different modelling methods try to achieve the listener (waveform, spectrum, etc.). It is astonishthe same result: to simulate the solutions of the wave ing that none of the earlier music synthesis techniques equation in a simplified manner. We concentrate on the