Download Reverberation still in business: Thickening and Propagating micro-textures in physics-based sound modeling Artificial reverberation is usually introduced, as a digital audio effect, to give a sense of enclosing architectural space. In this paper we argue about the effectiveness and usefulness of diffusive reverberators in physically-inspired sound synthesis. Examples are given for the synthesis of textural sounds, as they emerge from solid mechanical interactions, as well as from aerodynamic and liquid phenomena.
Download Real-time Finite Difference Physical Models of Musical Instruments on a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) Real-time sound synthesis of musical instruments based on solving differential equations is of great interest in Musical Acoustics especially in terms of linking geometry features of musical instruments to sound features. A major restriction of accurate physical models is the computational effort. One could state that the calculation cost is directly linked to the geometrical and material accuracy of a physical model and so to the validity of the results. This work presents a methodology for implementing realtime models of whole instrument geometries modelled with the Finite Differences Method (FDM) on a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), a device capable of massively parallel computations. Examples of three real-time musical instrument implementations are given, a Banjo, a Violin and a Chinese Ruan.
Download A Unified Framework for Real-Time Concatenation-Driven Convolution This work introduces a novel framework for Concatenation-Driven Convolution (CDC), unifying concatenative synthesis and real-time convolution into a single integrated audio processing paradigm. While concatenative synthesis has traditionally been used for corpus-based sound generation and convolution has served as a largely static filtering technique, the proposed approach reconceptualizes impulse responses (IRs) as dynamic, navigable sonic material. In the CDC framework, a corpus of audio segments is analyzed using perceptual features and organized via a self-organizing map (SOM), enabling intuitive, gesture-based traversal of a structured timbral space; the resulting concatenative output is treated as a continuously evolving impulse response and injected directly into a partitioned convolution engine. Its central technical contribution is single-engine frequency-domain kernel interpolation: rather than crossfading the outputs of two convolution engines, the FFT-domain kernels of the current and target IRs are interpolated within a single engine, preserving the internal convolution state across IR transitions and avoiding the warm-up energy loss inherent to dual-engine crossfading.