Modelling and subtractive synthesis of a virtual violin

Although solutions to the challenge of binaural artificial recreation of audio spatialisation exist in the Computer Music domain, a review of the area suggests that a comprehensive, generic, accurate and efficient toolset is required; hence this paper will deal with automated sound creation using sound synthesis. The entire setup was implemented using Csound. Csound implements many synthesis techniques unavailable through other means, such as user-controlled physical modeling. A number of Csound opcodes is presented to satiate this necessity. It provides a platform for creating customized instruments to produce the required sounds and a player that renders the sound according to the requirements. It provides a powerful base for performing signal processing functions like envelope shaping, filtering and mixing (additive and subtractive synthesis of sounds with disparate parameters). The final output is the product of the filter output that produces the sound of required frequencies and envelope shaping function that controls the amplitude. The utmost use of this research work is the optimum reduction in human interference without compensating with any of the efficient results obtained.