Unleash the Power of Physical Modeling Synthesis: Create a DI Guitar with your VSTs of choice

[@-KingOfKhaos]

I say this in the nicest and most respectful / complimentary way possible: This is an amazingly geeky video on modeling synthesis! It’s awesome! 😀😀😀😀 As a guitarist primarily, I’ve recently started diving into synthesis as I love science / math, and synthesis gives me the opportunity to combine math with my passion for music creation. I’ve always resisted playing synths (despite getting my start with music as a classically trained pianist) and I have stuck to playing ONLY pianos and guitars, believing that synthesis was “cheating” or not “real” music. I still feel that way a little bit (it’s difficult to get the purist out of me lol) but I’ve warmed up to synthesis and it’s been really fun using math to create incredible sounds that are just impossible to create anywhere else. Anyway, I love the deep dive into what creates a guitar tone, and I’ve often wondered why synths have so much trouble recreating guitar tones, let alone all the various ways a guitar string can be struck or played. It makes a lot more sense now seeing how complex a guitar tone truly is. Thank you for doing this… and I’m going to break out my SurgeXT to play around with this info right now :)

[@platipo]

Is it? I thought I had made it way too pedestrian... I clearly need to recalibrate my geekometer :D Thanks for the comment and the compliments and don't worry about being "too" respectful, I can take both a joke and some criticism :) Hope this video gets you making some nice sounds, let me know what you manage to come up with :)

[@-KingOfKhaos]

@@platipo For sure I will! At the very least, you got my gears ⚙️ spinning in my head on how to create realistic / interesting guitar sounds from scratch… it’s been something I’ve been tinkering with but not with much great success haha… you have provided some really great launch points to begin the crafting process 👍🏻👍🏻

[@VincentNeemie]

An instant click, haha... Love the philosophical question at the beginning, got to feed the AlgoEldritch.

[@rty65tt40]

Thanks

[@MGCaverly]

Brilliant!

[@jenstornell]

AAS Strum is the best physical modelled guitar I know of.

[@platipo]

@@jenstornell I didn"t know of it, I'll look it up. The point here was making something similar in a general purpose synth :)

[@jenstornell]

@@platipo Yes, it was a nice video and interesting experiments. 👍

[@TheDeadRadiation]

Great video, as always. Should we expect you to continue (no videos have been released for half a year)?

[@platipo]

I was utterly convinced I had replied to this quite some time ago... Anyway, sure, just have some patience, unfortunately I don't make a living with music, and teaching maths and physics in a high school takes away most of my time and headspace; last year too, I mostly released during summer, this year is being a lot more stressful than last one... Anyway, I'm full of ideas in the "background", I released an album in december ( Here labyrinthinecrew.bandcamp.com/album/contemporary-ancient-music I made a "community" post about it on YT, but it got zero engagement for some reason unknown to me), and I have more than a few ideas for new videos, also, Zebra3 is coming! Thanks for the comment, the patience, and the support :)

[@OrionRahl]

The last one sounded almost like nylon strings. I've come close to synthesizing a fairly realistic distorted guitar sound but haven't been able to get the palm muted sound right yet.

[@platipo]

Oh well. i could and I should have mentioned that. What synth did you use? The trick there imho is in messing with the lp cutoff or the damp, as some implementations call it, it sure kills most of the highs, and also makes the decay a lot shorter, you would agree those are both desired effects here :)

[@OrionRahl]

@@platipo I don't remember exactly how I did it; it just emerged from an experiment. I made a quick patch in Helm that had a satisfying texture with potential. Dropped a sample of it onto Vital to make a wavetable and mucked about. Made a pattern to test it with. Part of the note range sounded like sustained power chords. Similar sound to playing one of my SY-300 guitar synth patches that resembles a high-gain industrial guitar timbre with a sine sub. This video inspired a cool sound derived from Triple Cheese. Added A1TriggerGate, Fracture, LuxeVerb, and Vintage Phaser. The basic timbre with LPF is a cross between piano and the 12-string model on my Variax modeling guitar. Lots of textural movement suitable for psytrance-adjacent and/or ambient. Now I just need to experiment with Nova dynamic EQ to tame the dynamic range when it hits certain filter resonances. I enjoy your presentation style and I'll recommend your channel to a friend.

[@jenstornell]

Not sure you are interested but I am working on a website that contains a large collection of physically modelled plugins. I have not seen a collection like that anywhere so it may be the first one... in the world... ever. 😅

[@platipo]

Cool :) Keep me updated

[@gogonoise]