Karplus-Strong Guitar Synthesizer
Creative
music synthesizer
SHOW HN2015
How HN took it
8 positive, 4 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 2 critical, out of 14 comments about the project. Thread score +0.45.
Execution: 2 for, 0 againstPerformance: 0 for, 2 againstIdea: 1 for, 0 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Sounds good and is impressive, including hand-written asm.js
From 3 comments
Hand-written asm.js? That's impressive! https://github.com/mrahtz/javascript-karplus-strong/blob/master/karplus-strong/guitarstring_asm.js
mmastrac on HNNice! The setting that sounded best to my ear was: Character variation 0.7 String damping 0.7 String damping variation 0.15 Pluck damping 0.5 Pluck damping variation 0.40 String…
kyle_martin1 on HNfreakin' amazing! thank you so much for sharing! :D
sova on HN
Interesting algorithm to experiment with
From 1 comment
KS is one of the most interesting algorithms to experiment with. You can modify, multiply and recombine it with itself in a huge variety of ways, and always get new and weird…
pierrec on HN
Objections
Guitar sound is far from a real acoustic or electric guitar
From 2 comments
It's strange that it's so very far away from a real acoustic or electric guitar sound. Seems something like a piano is a lot easier to simulate with a few damped sine waves?
Gravityloss on HNYeah that's what I meant. The piano there sounds rather good. Yet guitar simulations sound absolutely horrible. Or maybe it's because I don't actually play the piano... Edit:…
Gravityloss on HN
Requests
Professional VST version or port
From 2 comments
Is there a professional VST version of this? Or something similar? Sounds beautiful and love that it isn't sample based.
stephenhess on HNThere are lots of VSTs that do about the same thing. In the xoxos VST link posted above, check out Pling. If you want the exact same algorithm in a VST plugin, you could port it…
pierrec on HN
Questions
What license applies, given it is based on André Michelle's code
From 1 comment
What's the license on this? I'm guessing since it's just a decompiled version of André Michelle's code, the copyright still belongs to him?
FigBug on HN
Is asm.js required for Firefox performance
From 1 comment
> Karplus-Strong guitar synthesizer implemented in JavaScript using asm.js and Web Audio. Are the asm.js annotations required for this to work in Firefox? I thought the primary…
timothya on HN
Alternatives named
xoxos VST plugins
From 2 comments
KS is one of the most interesting algorithms to experiment with. You can modify, multiply and recombine it with itself in a huge variety of ways, and always get new and weird…
pierrec on HNDang, nearly every single DSP effect I've ever dreamed up and intended to create is right there as a free VST download. Thanks for the link to xoxos!
nitrogen on HN
Pling VST
From 1 comment
There are lots of VSTs that do about the same thing. In the xoxos VST link posted above, check out Pling. If you want the exact same algorithm in a VST plugin, you could port it…
pierrec on HN
Pianoteq
From 1 comment
I think the main advantage of Karplus-Strong is that it is (or at least was) cheaper and more simple to implement, than to for example an algorithm generating a similar sound…
boomlinde on HN