Issues When Modeling a Single String
Although bowed instruments typically contain four strings, we’re only going to model one. The main reason is that our wooden body filter, which is coming up on a subsequent page, is monophonic.
We’ve done this before
Making a patch on the G2 operate monophonically is usually as simple as setting the Voice Mode to “Mono”. But if we try that here, the results will be unsatisfactory. We’ll have electronic-sounding note transitions, some of them squawking.
We’ll respond by using the same techniques we’ve used before in the reed woodwind pages. That model was a “blown string”, after all, and the string portion of this model is essentially the same thing. The page Legato phrasing describes how to create a single string with natural-sounding note-to-note transitions. The page Stabilizing the model describes how to fix some of the problems that arise.
Below is our cello with these improvements in place.