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Chet
Joined: Nov 19, 2004 Posts: 231 Location: Lititz,PA,USA
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Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2014 4:23 pm Post subject:
Experimental Bb clarinet synthesizer |
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Hello! Here is an experimental synthesizer that mimics a Bb clarinet. It creates sounds using waveguide physical modeling synthesis.
It’s not polished, but a work in progress.
It is monophonic and is meant to be played using a wind or breath controller on CC #2 (although other CC’s can be selected). The sample rate must be 44.1 or 48.0 kHz. Internally, the model is 4x oversampled so that high notes remain clean.
The model has five parts:
• A non-linear reed, copied from STK.
• A pitched vortex noise generator, as patented by Dr. Chris Chafe.
• A bore with register holes that properly play in the chalumeau, clarino, and altissimo registers.
• A conical bell made of a 40-stage Kelly-Lochbaum ladder filter.
• A two-dimensional dynamic equalizer for making final timbre adjustments.
The model has nine adjustable parameters:
• Register – The state of the register holes.
• Stiffness – The stiffness of the reed.
• Aperture – The distance between the reed and the mouthpiece.
• Noise – The amount of vortex breath noise.
• Absorption – The tone of the reflection received from the bell.
• Damping – The amount of reflection received from the bell.
• Finger Time – The time to open and close tone holes while playing.
• Timbre – Minor timbre adjustment, for some variety.
• Half-Finger – The distance that tone holes are raised or lowered.
Vibrato and flutter tonguing are included.
I also added six optional trumpet mutes that can be placed onto the bell. No, they make no sense on a clarinet. But I had the filter specifications for them, so why not?
A single MIDI modulation bus is included, with 10 sources and 15 destinations, but most of it is unfinished.
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Experimental breath-controlled clarinet synthesizer for Reaktor. |
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Chet
Joined: Nov 19, 2004 Posts: 231 Location: Lititz,PA,USA
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Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2014 5:05 am Post subject:
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I've now finished it. It now includes three different clarinets. Also attached is a short tune played with it.
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Breath-controlled clarinet synthesizer in Reaktor. |
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Small tune performed with the Silverwood Bb Clarinet Reaktor ensemble. |
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Lfohead
Joined: Jul 29, 2009 Posts: 289 Location: Sweden
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Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2015 11:26 pm Post subject:
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Chet wrote: | I've now finished it. It now includes three different clarinets. Also attached is a short tune played with it. |
Sounds good! keep up the hard work |
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traviswhendrix
Joined: Feb 17, 2015 Posts: 5 Location: Oakland, CA
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Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2015 2:19 pm Post subject:
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Wow, sounds awesome! As a Reaktor user and a clarinetist, I'm very impressed. The articulation sounds so accurate. I'll have to update my version of Reaktor so I can play with this patch... _________________ https://traviswhendrix.bandcamp.com
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