Physical Modelling Synthesis | Explanation and Tutorial 

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this video taught me more about physical modelling than i've learned in music production school

I was promised a weasel

I would be really interested in hearing your take on Buchla/West Coast synthesis!

You really got a talent for explaining complex topics in a refreshing and understandable way without breaking it down too much. And I'd love to hear u talk about modular synthesis. Thank you so much for this video.

This is fantastic! So glad I found your channel. Big love from one creator to another! Looking forward to more episodes!

Great work, Sarah. Particularly interested in the weasel modeling, now that you've mentioned it.

I feel like this is the first time this stuff has made sense to me. This was very illustrative, and helped make a lot of digital audio work "click" for me. Also very soothing to listen to while working! Love the background music and sounds and jokes! Thank you and definitely interested in more tutorials and content :)

this was a really great intro!! i had never heard of physical modeling synthesis until now and i think you broke it down really well. the length is good too :)

Very IMPRESSIVE! I learned a lot about physical modelling today.. than I had previously encountered! Great and informative!

The way you explain stuff is so clear, thank you! You have the gift of pedagogical gab :)

I already like all your videos but tutorials are an excellent idea, cant wait to see more!!!

excellent! this was great you presented the information in such an engaging and effective way. Definitely going to share with some friends.

I love your videos! I'll be interested in any/all videos you make!!!

so cool! this really demystified it for me. gonna go mess around with collision now!

Yes! Please do more. I've been using Vital synth lately and I think it's pretty cool.

Awesome content, glad I found this channel!

I never knew I needed to watch videos about the internals of electronic music until I discovered Sarah's videos. Thanks Sarah, your videos are amazing!

Yes, I love your video! Please, do more of them and teach us also how to look so natural in a tutorial.

Awesome introductory explanation, which greatly encourages the targeted experimentation with this model.

I just wanted to say that I discovered your channel from the Sophie video, and I'm really loving the videos you make!

thanks so much for your work !

Excellent overview, thanks :)

I could not click the subscribe button soon enough. Great work with this video!

omg plz more tutorials

Was looking for physical modelling synthesis of a snare drum. You got me at "for all the crazy shit..." Subscribed!

Great insight, thank you

This channel is gold!

So, cool again. Learned a lot, thank you.

I just discovered your channel and is everything I'm into right now. I know I'm a little late, but please do a video on modular synthesis!! Thank you for your amazing content :)

I would be quite interested in a modular/west coast video! Great vid as always.

wonderful, informative, fun video. favorite part was the snaps

Really great explanations

Very interesting video, nice work

Thank you, concept understood

Physical Modelling is really intresting, thanks for the vid!

Great video !

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I would absolutely be interested in more tutorials

Wendy Carlos is truly the queen of electronic music. This is the first video that came up when I searched "physical modeling synthesis", and I subscribed as soon as you mentioned her. I wish more people talked about her non-film score stuff.

i like that this was funny and straight to the point. most synth tube video are quite bumbling.

thank you for your efforts sarah ❤🙏🏼❤ great video ! and yes, more buchla shit !

Pretty good video. I think a lot of people tend to ignore the fact that physical modelling can do a lot more than real instruments and go way further in terms of interesting sound design than trying to make a really accurate violin sound or whatever.

I always notice your pretty face and then notice your intriguing titles; your content always makes me want to get back into Cakewalk and writing some orchestral stuff. You're a little advanced for me, though, so I've subscribed and I'll be your student from here on. Please keep making these cool videos (lessons).

Why haven’t I seen your video’s already? I’ve been doin music for 5 years now. Wth cracking good video 😊

so cool!

Cool, I'm just starting out with Triton MOSS and this is really useful.

Thank you!!

thank you!

thanks for you depth of knowledge, cheers from Vancouver B.C.

I'd love a video on Buchla, such an intresting history

Your looks sometimes made me lose my focus but it was very interesting and instructive, thank you

Do more! So good! Peace from Sweden!

Thanks, really interesting. Indeed physical modeling synths are less popular then other types of synthesis. . I think the approach was mostly adopted by researchers and not musicians at first, because it was a little more complex to put in place. But that was years ago and it's not really the case anymore, so thanks for sharing your tips with us! Great tutorial, awesome has are all of your videos.

Great info! I've been going more into physical modelling. Traditional analog is cool. But it gets old. I just ordered a qu-bit surface eurorack module

Yep, more tutorials would be really nice! Personnally, Buchla stuff has always remained very obscure (i have the Buchla from Arturia but i really struggle to understand how it works or why someone would use it).

Brilliant channel love it, question: lets say I get some vst with the gift of prophecy and can render a realistic physical model synth of an organic instrument (ie pianoteq has quite convincing synth packs) can that sort of data be used through a physical synth in a daw to produce relatively convincing sounds as well or are they stuck in the digital world?

some very oddly satisfying sounds

I always use velocity to filter on subtractive synths.

Physical modelling really took off after someone started using digital delay lines. Before that the idea was to do "real time finite elemnt analysis". "Real Time" means a sound sample (a single 16 or 24 bit number) in less time than than it's expected for the next sample to come. "Finite Element Analysis" is a technique to simulate physiscal objects by describing it with a huge number - but a finite one - of small simple elements. Finite element analysis is great for a lot of applications - mainly the ones where you have lots of time (days ... weeks) between samples. Simulating bridges is a great example. Then someone (I don't remember the name - but it was a real person) thought "why do I need to simulate the whole tridimensional string? Can't I just do a sort of unidimensional finite element analysis? And that's what the first image you showed depicts. I think it took too long for it to take off because 1) people didn't know what it meant and 2) it took time and experience to learn how to use it and how to correlate aspects of the model to physical characteristics of the instrument. The first time I heard about it was around 15 years ago and the researcher showed us a Berimbau (a single string instrument) that he played using Wii controllers. It was cool and sounded great but was no Berimbauteq, though. I can't show the synthesized version but I can show you a real berimbau alongside some martial art!!! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-V1sh1wN7FT4.html

1. You should have plugged Grids! I am very curious how you designed the sounds in that album. They're so well done. 2. I wonder if you've ever dabbled with granular synthesis and musique concrète. Personally, starting with an audio recording as a basis for sythesis tends to produce very acoustically viable sounds.

Physical modeling is great, it's the next frontier of synthesis

Hey, quick question- if you wanted to run a guitar output through a model of a a spruce soundboard, what method would you use to approach this?

I think it would be interesting to replicate the physical modeling patches from that academic link you posted in this video description. Sunvox could probably handle it.

I think it's the only tutorial video I watched until the end. Please, leave the links of the synthesizers creator's sites.

This channel is a prerequisite for anyone studying the art of sound. Or wanting to be an audio engineer as these principles apply. Also, that plant to your left (our right)looks wicked. Like a hand begging for a crumb.

Do west coast complex oscillation

For my EE senior project, I BEGGED my teammates implement my idea of making a synthesizer. They didn't want to go with it so I told them that we could make a digital physical modeling synthesizer and we can make the resonator a guitar string thats as long as the Brooklyn bridge and the resonator as big as the Statue of Liberty... We ended up making a solar panel :/

very interesting video, I've got one suggestion though, and not only for this video, that you might underestimate listeners from foreign first language, ...for us it would be very useful to hear a slightly slower and better articulated speech for better understanding, what do you think of it ? 😀 ...and this is a critique for any tutorials of the electronic music domain, none of yours in particular, mind you !

00:47 😍

Do you know any physical modeling hardware synth ? ...good vidéo

Kaivo is one of the most amazing synths, but also probably the most brutal CPU killer I've ever loaded, which made it basically unusable for me. :(

Where can we find good opensource physical modelers?

Paul Nasca talks about the bandwidth of harmonics to make good sounds.

more tutorials

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2:34 … aren’t constrained by physical reality. To go where no ear has gone before !

Nonetheless about the complexity of physical modelling in supposedly replicating organic sounds, all these plugins, and most I've heard, both 1) Sound *not* like acoustic instrument/or sound clearly like inferior versions of them (so why shouldn't I just play the real thing?) while 2) Sounding less special, organic, whatever, than the tones you can get from well made analog synths, even though these synths technically lack some of the complexity and characteristics you can get from physically modelling. Personally for me, modular analog synthesis + acoustic instruments is the best of all worlds.

With digital pianos, physical modelers promise to stimulate strings that were not played. Is that true and how does that work?

Heh. "Stiffness control." (I'm forever twelve.) Yes, more tutorials!

She talks about creating the sound of a Marimba (sp?), an instrument I've never heard of, and creating it's sound like I'd describe taking a breath of air...lol I get the feeling she may know this like I know the back of my eyelids.

OK... you need to approach Karplus/Strong now...and how we can use bullshit to get there.

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The physical modelling/synthesis base is in the model's algo. what you do is just paremetering LOL

God you're fucking good. You deserve a million subs. And i don't mean subwoofers. Unless you're into that lol

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Ah the old 'peeing weasel' technique.

I think this complexity should be hidden behind some simple parameters in a new type of synth, like usynth.

I swear to God you look so much like Wendy Carlos I had to stop and check Google to see if you had photoshopped yourself into that picture I swear it's like she's your mom or grandmother or something that's crazy lol

i cant mentally process the 80/90s color grading in this 😂 it makes uncomfortable

thanks dude

2:50 Exactly! Just like you can deepen the model's voice by adding an Adam's apple.

oy thats a sick chromaphone skin

Ok dude 😏

Thanks for the tutorial. I know it's very uncalled for but your motionless face bugged me a lot and kept me from concentrating on the subject. Less botox will make your videos more appealing. Regards

the apple. it can't be unseen. sorry,

Is that a trans ?

Is this an LGBTQ person?

u trans bruh?🤨