I find this article to be shallow and dismissive: even twenty years ago waveguides worked very well at modeling many acoustic instruments. If readers would like an introduction to waveguides this is one of the foundational papers: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/234809707_Theory_of...
I found it pretty reasonable. I've implemented both physical modeling and more traditional subtractive synthesis algorithms, and I fully agree with the author that physical modeling takes "more engineering tenacity" to implement correctly. Mastering simpler techniques before diving into physical modeling is something I would highly recommend, and that's exactly what the author is doing. Giving some degree of realism to subtractive synthesis is fun and can give great results too.
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I find this article to be shallow and dismissive: even twenty years ago waveguides worked very well at modeling many acoustic instruments. If readers would like an introduction to waveguides this is one of the foundational papers: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/234809707_Theory_of...
I found it pretty reasonable. I've implemented both physical modeling and more traditional subtractive synthesis algorithms, and I fully agree with the author that physical modeling takes "more engineering tenacity" to implement correctly. Mastering simpler techniques before diving into physical modeling is something I would highly recommend, and that's exactly what the author is doing. Giving some degree of realism to subtractive synthesis is fun and can give great results too.