Karplus Strong Synthesis

Accent · 2014-02-06T04:47:13.000Z

I’ve been experimenting with this over the last few days, and am really liking the results. There’s lots of tips in this old E-U thread: http://www.elektron-users.com/index.php?option=com_fireboard&Itemid=28&func=view&id=76721&catid=18&limit=10&limitstart=0

Anyone else played with this much? I’ve also been using the GND-SIN machine a lot…seems to give some warm, cello-like textures.

invisible_acropolis · 2014-02-06T04:56:07.000Z

yeh this is always a fun technique to play around with

and depending on how much fine control you have over the relevant parameters, adding in some delay/reverb fx and doing random modulations and lfos/envs on various things can make some really super-weirdo sounds… like alien birds and hyperdimensional insects and shit like that

KrisM · 2014-02-06T08:12:44.000Z

I keep meaning to mess with it, but then lose myself in the machine >.>

I surface a couple hours later wondering where my time went, but not really caring.

ignatius · 2014-02-06T09:24:10.000Z

i don’t have a MnM any more but i used to use short delay times on everything now and then. high feedback… route LFO’s to various delay parameters… the delay is a chameleon of sorts.

i used to use the drums w/lot’s of short delay being modulated + high feedback/gain etc. it makes those drum sounds otherworldy.

the FM synth engines + delay with modulation can do some really weird stuff… not strictly karplus but in the ball park sort of…

tsv · 2014-02-06T10:33:42.000Z

Cool. I’m gonna try these out.

Thanks.

deebee · 2014-02-06T12:52:02.000Z

Can anyone post any examples?

pseen · 2014-02-06T13:36:43.000Z

""deebee"":

Can anyone post any examples?

At 7:00 minutes you hear one MnM Karpluss voice doing the deep bass (through a Moogerfooger filter) and two panned MnM Karpluss voices doing the harsh stringy thing through a Filterbank.

https://soundcloud.com/pseen/xmsmixmmxii

KrisM · 2014-02-06T18:55:45.000Z

""deebee"":

Can anyone post any examples?

FreeFall · 2014-02-06T21:20:46.000Z

I was doing something like this with my MD last night, and was able to get some nice chord/pad sounds from a little cymbal hit! Pretty amazing what these machines can do.

pseen · 2014-02-12T12:33:08.000Z

Here’s a table showing the relationship between the delay values and the resulting notes. As far as I remember from when I took these notes, the values work independently of pattern BPM, so the notes will not be transposed at different tempos. I could be wrong, though…

Some of the notes are off by more than a few cents, especially the lower values where one single delay value constitutes an interval of several half notes.

FreeFall · 2014-02-14T08:47:54.000Z

I believe it’s all about a short sound bit, with the reverb making it a sustained pad sound. I may be wrong, but fuck it.