Making Virtual Electric Guitars and Guitar Effects
Using Faust and Octave
Extended Karplus-Strong Algorithm
EKS Faust ListingSearch Physical Audio Signal Processing
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Figures D.10 and D.11 give a Faust implementation of the Extended-Karplus-Strong algorithm.
declare name "EKS Electric Guitar Synth"; declare author "Julius Smith"; declare version "1.0"; declare license "STK-4.3"; declare copyright "Julius Smith"; declare reference "http://www.dsprelated.com/dspbooks/pasp/vegf.html"; // -> Virtual\_Electric\_Guitars\_Faust.html"; import("music.lib"); // Define SR, delay import("filter.lib"); // smooth, ffcombfilter,fdelay4 import("effect.lib"); // stereopanner //==================== GUI SPECIFICATION ================ // standard MIDI voice parameters: // NOTE: The labels MUST be "freq", "gain", and "gate" for faust2pd freq = nentry("freq", 440, 20, 7040, 1); // Hz gain = nentry("gain", 1, 0, 10, 0.01); // 0 to 1 gate = button("gate"); // 0 or 1 // Additional parameters (MIDI "controllers"): // Pick angle in [0,0.9]: pickangle = 0.9 * hslider("pick_angle",0,0,0.9,0.1); // Normalized pick-position in [0,0.5]: beta = hslider("pick_position [midi: ctrl 0x81]", 0.13, 0.02, 0.5, 0.01); // MIDI Control 0x81 often "highpass filter frequency" // String decay time in seconds: t60 = hslider("decaytime_T60", 4, 0, 10, 0.01); // -60db decay time (sec) // Normalized brightness in [0,1]: B = hslider("brightness [midi:ctrl 0x74]", 0.5, 0, 1, 0.01);// 0-1 // MIDI Controller 0x74 is often "brightness" // (or VCF lowpass cutoff freq) // Dynamic level specified as dB level desired at Nyquist limit: L = hslider("dynamic_level", -10, -60, 0, 1) : db2linear; // Note: A lively clavier is obtained by tying L to gain (MIDI v |