Garrett

Not particularly knowledgeable in music synthesis can anyone suggest how to go about synthesizing/emulating the sound of these two instruments (without sound clips):

http://park.org/Japan/Kabuki/sound/tsuzumi.au

Taiko drum (click sound file towards end of page)

http://www.pbs.org/empires/japan/instruments.html

I've found lots of drum machines but nothing that sounds particularly like any sort of traditional drum. Is there a method to synthesis i.e. a way to analyse a sound and then reconstruct it with standard sound/wave generation such as saw~ rect~ etc? Anything I can look at that might get me started on this?

Not particularly knowledgeable in music synthesis can anyone suggest how to go about synthesizing/emulating the sound of these two instruments (without sound clips):   

Tsuzumi
http://park.org/Japan/Kabuki/sound/tsuzumi.au

Taiko drum (click sound file towards end of page)
http://www.pbs.org/empires/japan/instruments.html

I've found lots of drum machines but nothing that sounds particularly like any sort of traditional drum.  Is there a method to synthesis i.e. a way to analyse a sound and then reconstruct it with standard sound/wave generation such as saw~ rect~ etc?  Anything I can look at that might get me started on this?

synthesize-particular-instruments

would externals be useful? I think the Percolate object set would be great for this.

Either way, simulating such drum sounds takes basic physical modelling.

here's a very quick demo of how you might roll-your-own, and the pertinent objects:

Wetterberg's ref to PerColate externals is very useful too, just make sure you have the 32-bit version of Max in order to run them - hours of endless fun

Hi
here's a very quick demo of how you might roll-your-own, and the pertinent objects:

Can't get it to stop sounding like cheesy 80's electro-pop. Thanks Remo.

There's many paths to synthesis and physical modelling of drums... one major field of inquiry in this area is 'waveguide synthesis' (of which 'karplus-strong' is a simple form).

Here's some background reading if it helps:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_waveguide_synthesis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karplus%E2%80%93Strong_string_synthesis

https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~be/drum/drum.htm

https://cycling74.com/forums/karplus-strong-extension-drum-synthesis-algorithm/

There's many paths to synthesis and physical modelling of drums... one major field of inquiry in this area is 'waveguide synthesis' (of which 'karplus-strong' is a simple form).
Here's some background reading if it helps:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_waveguide_synthesis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karplus%E2%80%93Strong_string_synthesis
https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~be/drum/drum.htm
https://cycling74.com/forums/karplus-strong-extension-drum-synthesis-algorithm/


Thanks very much for all this, working through the Percolate objects and also looking at resonators~ in the CNMAT objects - not sure if it's correct but it's producing goodish drum sounds.

Synthesize particular instruments