[music-dsp] Cymbal Synthesis (was: re: How to compress...)

[eli+ at cs.cmu.edu]

James Chandler Jr wrote:
> As a dumb guess, rather than oversampling the XOR'd (ring-modulated) square
> waves and lopass filtering-- if the main objectionable is low-freq
> artifacts, perhaps one could do the synthesis quick-n-dirty, then
> subsequently attenuate the low-freq aliasing with a 2 pole or 4 pole IIR
> hipass filter?

For some hats I did, I found I needed an 8-pole Butterworth, but I was
setting the osc fundamentals below the cutoff for more density, so the
filter was given a lot to do.

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     Eli Brandt  |  eli+ at cs.cmu.edu  |  http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~eli/