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    Instrument Synthesizer Aman Singh Dilpreet: CMPT 468 Final Project by

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    This project aimed to create a digital instrument synthesizer in MATLAB that could simulate the sounds of piano, guitar, and drums. Additive synthesis and the Karplus-Strong algorithm were used to try to realistically simulate piano and guitar sounds. While a basic piano and guitar sound were produced, the simulations were not very realistic when compared to real instruments. The project was more successful at simulating plucked guitar strings using finite impulse response filters. In the end, only piano and a basic guitar could be produced, and drums were not accomplished.

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    This project aimed to create a digital instrument synthesizer in MATLAB that could simulate the sounds of piano, guitar, and drums. Additive synthesis and the Karplus-Strong algorithm were used to try to realistically simulate piano and guitar sounds. While a basic piano and guitar sound were produced, the simulations were not very realistic when compared to real instruments. The project was more successful at simulating plucked guitar strings using finite impulse response filters. In the end, only piano and a basic guitar could be produced, and drums were not accomplished.

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    This project aimed to create a digital instrument synthesizer in MATLAB that could simulate the sounds of piano, guitar, and drums. Additive synthesis and the Karplus-Strong algorithm were used to try to realistically simulate piano and guitar sounds. While a basic piano and guitar sound were produced, the simulations were not very realistic when compared to real instruments. The project was more successful at simulating plucked guitar strings using finite impulse response filters. In the end, only piano and a basic guitar could be produced, and drums were not accomplished.

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    Instrument Synthesizer Aman Singh Dilpreet: CMPT 468 Final Project by

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    This project aimed to create a digital instrument synthesizer in MATLAB that could simulate the sounds of piano, guitar, and drums. Additive synthesis and the Karplus-Strong algorithm were used to try to realistically simulate piano and guitar sounds. While a basic piano and guitar sound were produced, the simulations were not very realistic when compared to real instruments. The project was more successful at simulating plucked guitar strings using finite impulse response filters. In the end, only piano and a basic guitar could be produced, and drums were not accomplished.

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    CMPT 468 Final Project

    Instrument Synthesizer by Aman Singh Dilpreet


    Abstract
    This project is motivated by a desire to make a instrument which works like MIDI Synthesizer Keyboard. A real time simulation of Keyboard
    interface GUI is made using MATLAB GUIDE, which is graphical user interface development environment. This instruments planned to able to
    play using this interface are:
    Piano
    Guitar
    Drums
    However Piano and Guitar were only instruments in hands available for analysing in real world, so was not able to accomplish Drums at any
    level.

    Problem Specification
    The main problem to be solved was how to simulate a different instruments on the computer using the MATLAB applying techniques studied in
    CMPT 468. The techniques used in solving problems includes:
    Additive Synthesis
    ADSR
    FIR "Finite Impulse Response Filter"
    Karplus - Strong

    Method
    Additive Synthesis
    Sound synthesis technique that creates timbre by adding sine waves together.

    Karplus-Strong
    Karplus-Strong loops a short waveform through a filtered delay line to simulate the sound of a hammered or plucked string or some types of
    percussion

    Combining the above methodologies the synthesizer looks like :

    Results
    The project was not successful in creating a realistic sounding piano using either Additive Synthesis or Karplus Strong Algorithm .The simulated
    piano running under Matlab was compared to Casio CDP220 digital piano. On using the wave table synthesis using recorded sound from Casio
    CDP220 digital piano, the resultant sound was realistic and identical. But wave table uses the recorded sounds so it was just like playing them
    back.
    However using "firls" Finite Impulse response filter using least-squares error minimization, sound of pluck string was produced to somewhat
    approximation. Guitar is tuned at standard tunings of "A E D G B E2" and each note can be played defining the fret and the string to play. The
    notes of guitar are mapped to relevant keyboard keys.
    Image: below is the frequency and magnitude response of a "C4" Piano using Additive synthesis:

    Audio : This is the audio sample of C4 using Additive Syntheses


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    Image: below is the frequency and magnitude response of a "C4" Piano using Stuck Key.

    Audio : This is the audio sample of C4 using Stuck String Karplus Strong:

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    Image: below is the frequency and magnitude response of a "C4" Guitar using Karlpus Strong.

    Audio : This is the audio sample of C4 using Pluck String Karplus Strong:
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    References
    1. Karplus-Strong Plucked-String Algorithm
    David A. Jaffe and Julius O. Smith
    Computer Music Journal, Vol. 7, No. 2 (Summer, 1983), pp.56-69.
    http://www.jstor.org/stable/3680063
    2. Full-hardware implementation of Karplus-Strong algorithm on electronic PS/2 keyboard
    www2.units.it/ipl/students_area/KS_project.pdf
    Prepared for Innovate Italy Design Contest 2012
    Universit degli Studi di Trieste
    3. Matlab Guide
    http://www.mathworks.com/discovery/matlab-gui.html
    4. Using Discrete Time filter to create Guitar sounds
    Reference to how pluck string sound can be produced using FIR filters.
    5. CMPT 468/769/889 Notes
    Reference to how pluck string sound can be produced using FIR filters.

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