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'''Karplus–Strong string synthesis''' is a method of [[physical modelling synthesis]] that loops a short waveform through a filtered delay line to simulate the sound of a hammered or plucked [[string instrument|string]] or some types of [[Percussion instrument|percussion]].
Although it is useful to view this as a [[subtractive synthesis]] technique based on a [[feedback loop]] similar to that of a [[comb filter]] for [[z-transform]] analysis, it is better viewed as the simplest of a class of [[wavetable]]-modification algorithms now known as [[digital waveguide synthesis]], as the delay line acts to store one period of the signal.
 
[[Alexander Strong]] invented the algorithm, and [[Kevin Karplus]] did the first analysis of how it worked.  Together they developed software and hardware implementations of the algorithm, including a custom VLSI chip. They named the algorithm "Digitar" synthesis, as an abbreviation for "digital guitar".
 
== How it works ==
[[image:Karplus-strong-schematic.png|center]]
 
# A short excitation waveform (of length L samples) is generated. In the original algorithm, this was a burst of [[white noise]], but it can also include any [[wideband]] signal, such as a rapid [[sine wave]] [[chirp]] or frequency sweep, or a single cycle of a [[sawtooth wave]] or [[square wave]].
# This excitation is output and simultaneously fed back into a [[delay line]] L samples long.
# The output of the delay line is fed through a [[audio filter|filter]]. The [[gain]] of the filter must be less than 1 at all frequencies, to maintain a stable positive feedback loop. The filter is can be a first-order lowpass filter (as pictured).  In the original algorithm, the filter consisted of averaging two adjacent samples, a particularly simple filter that can be implemented without a multiplier, requiring only shift and add operations. The filter characteristics are crucial in determining the harmonic structure of the decaying tone.
# The filtered output is simultaneously mixed back into the output and fed back into the delay line.
 
== Tuning the string ==
The [[fundamental frequency]] (specifically, the lowest nonzero resonant frequency) of the resulting signal is the lowest frequency at which the unwrapped phase response of the delay and filter in cascade is <math>-2\pi</math>The required [[phase delay]] ''D'' for a given fundamental frequency ''F''<sub>0</sub> is therefore calculated according to ''D'' = ''F''<sub>''s''</sub>/''F''<sub>0</sub> where ''F''<sub>''s''</sub> is the sampling frequency.
 
The length of any digital delay line is a whole-number multiple of the sampling period.  In order to obtain a [[fractional delay]], [[interpolation|interpolating filters]] are used with parameters selected to obtain an appropriate phase delay at the fundamental frequency.  Either [[Infinite impulse response|IIR]] or [[Finite Impulse Response|FIR]] filters may be used, however FIR have the advantage that transients are suppressed if the fractional delay is changed over time. The most elementary fractional delay is the [[linear interpolation]] between two samples (e.g., ''s''(4.2) = 0.8''s''(4) + 0.2''s''(5)).  If the phase delay varies with frequency, [[harmonic]]s may be sharpened or flattened relative to the fundamental frequency. The original algorithm used equal weighting on two adjacent samples, as this can be achieved without multiplication hardware, allowing extremely cheap implementations.
 
[[Z-transform]] analysis can be used to get the pitches and decay times of the harmonics more precisely, as explained in the 1983 paper that introduced the algorithm.
 
A demonstration of the Karplus-Strong algorithm can be heard in the following [[Vorbis]] file.  The algorithm used a loop gain of 0.98 with increasingly attenuating first order lowpass filters.  The pitch of the note was A2, or 220&nbsp;Hz.
 
{{listen
| filename = Karplus-strong-A2.ogg
| title = Karplus-Strong #1
| description = ''F''<sub>1</sub> = 220Hz
}}
 
Holding the period (= length of the delay line) constant produces vibrations similar to those of a string or bell.  Increasing the period sharply after the transient input produces drum-like sounds.
 
== Refinements to the algorithm ==
[[Alex Strong]] and [[Kevin Karplus]] realized that the Karplus-Strong algorithm was physically analogous to a sampling of the transversal wave on a string instrument, with the filter in the feedback loop representing the total string losses over one period. [[Julius O. Smith III]] [http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/] and others
generalized the algorithm to [[digital waveguide synthesis]], which could also be used to model acoustic waves in tubes and on drum membranes. The first set of extensions and generalizations was presented in a paper in 1982 at the International Computer Music Conference in Venice, Italy, and published in more detail in 1983 in Computer Music Journal in an article entitled "Extensions of the Karplus Strong Plucked String Algorithm," by David A. Jaffe and Julius O. Smith.<ref>http://davidjaffesite.squarespace.com/storage/writings/Jaffe-Smith-Extensions-CMJ-1983.pdf</ref>
 
[[Alex Strong]] developed a superior wavetable-modification method for plucked-string synthesis, but only published it as a patent.
 
== Musical Applications ==
The first musical use of the algorithm was in the work ''May All Your Children Be Acrobats'' written in 1981 by [[David A. Jaffe]], and scored for eight guitars, mezzo-soprano and computer-generated stereo tape, with a text based on [[Carl Sandburg]]'s ''The People, Yes''. Jaffe continued to explore the musical and technical possibilities of the algorithm in ''Silicon Valley Breakdown'', for computer-generated plucked strings (1982), as well as in later works such as ''Telegram to the President, 1984'' for string quartet and tape, and ''Grass'' for female chorus and tape (1987).
 
The patent was licensed first to Mattel Electronics, which failed as a company before any product using the algorithm was developed, then to a startup company founded by some of the laid-off Mattel executives. They never got sufficient funding to finish development, and so never brought a product to market either. Eventually Yamaha licensed the patent, as part of the Sondius package of patents from Stanford.  It is unknown whether any hardware using the algorithm was ever sold, though many software implementations (which did not pay any license fees to the inventors) have been released.
 
== References ==
 
* {{cite journal
| author = Kevin Karplus, Alex Strong
| year = 1983
| title = Digital Synthesis of Plucked String and Drum Timbres
| journal = Computer Music Journal
| volume = 7
| issue = 2
| pages = 43–55
| publisher = MIT Press
| doi = 10.2307/3680062
| jstor = 3680062
}}
 
* {{cite journal
| author = David A. Jaffe, Julius O. Smith
| year = 1983
| title = Extensions of the Karplus-Strong Plucked String Algorithm
| journal = Computer Music Journal
| volume = 7
| issue = 2
| pages = 56–69
| publisher = MIT Press
| doi = 10.2307/3680063
| jstor = 3680063
}}
 
* {{US patent reference|
number=4649783|
y=1987|m=03|d=17|
inventor=Alexander R. Strong, Kevin J. Karplus|
title=Wavetable Modification Instrument and Method for Generating Musical Sound}}
<!-- filed May 24, 1984, now expired -->
 
* {{US patent reference|
number=4622877|
y=1986|m=11|d=18|
inventor=Alexander R. Strong|
title=Independently controlled wavetable-modification instrument and method for generating musical sound}}
 
* Moore, F. Richard. ''Elements of Computer Music''. Upper Saddle River: Prentice-Hall, 1990. ISBN 0-13-252552-6.
 
{{Reflist}}
 
== External links ==
* [http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/pasp/Karplus_Strong_Algorithm.html The Karplus-Strong Algorithm]
* [http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/Mohonk05/Karplus_Strong_Algorithm.html Sound Examples]
* [http://www.freesound.org/browse/tags/karplus-strong/ More sound examples under CC license]
* [http://lab.andre-michelle.com/karplus-strong-guitar Flash application implementing a guitar]
* [http://www.jaffe.com David A. Jaffe's music, including sound examples]
 
{{Sound synthesis types}}
 
{{DEFAULTSORT:Karplus-Strong string synthesis}}
[[Category:Sound synthesis types]]

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Template:More footnotes Karplus–Strong string synthesis is a method of physical modelling synthesis that loops a short waveform through a filtered delay line to simulate the sound of a hammered or plucked string or some types of percussion. Although it is useful to view this as a subtractive synthesis technique based on a feedback loop similar to that of a comb filter for z-transform analysis, it is better viewed as the simplest of a class of wavetable-modification algorithms now known as digital waveguide synthesis, as the delay line acts to store one period of the signal.

Alexander Strong invented the algorithm, and Kevin Karplus did the first analysis of how it worked. Together they developed software and hardware implementations of the algorithm, including a custom VLSI chip. They named the algorithm "Digitar" synthesis, as an abbreviation for "digital guitar".

How it works

  1. A short excitation waveform (of length L samples) is generated. In the original algorithm, this was a burst of white noise, but it can also include any wideband signal, such as a rapid sine wave chirp or frequency sweep, or a single cycle of a sawtooth wave or square wave.
  2. This excitation is output and simultaneously fed back into a delay line L samples long.
  3. The output of the delay line is fed through a filter. The gain of the filter must be less than 1 at all frequencies, to maintain a stable positive feedback loop. The filter is can be a first-order lowpass filter (as pictured). In the original algorithm, the filter consisted of averaging two adjacent samples, a particularly simple filter that can be implemented without a multiplier, requiring only shift and add operations. The filter characteristics are crucial in determining the harmonic structure of the decaying tone.
  4. The filtered output is simultaneously mixed back into the output and fed back into the delay line.

Tuning the string

The fundamental frequency (specifically, the lowest nonzero resonant frequency) of the resulting signal is the lowest frequency at which the unwrapped phase response of the delay and filter in cascade is . The required phase delay D for a given fundamental frequency F0 is therefore calculated according to D = Fs/F0 where Fs is the sampling frequency.

The length of any digital delay line is a whole-number multiple of the sampling period. In order to obtain a fractional delay, interpolating filters are used with parameters selected to obtain an appropriate phase delay at the fundamental frequency. Either IIR or FIR filters may be used, however FIR have the advantage that transients are suppressed if the fractional delay is changed over time. The most elementary fractional delay is the linear interpolation between two samples (e.g., s(4.2) = 0.8s(4) + 0.2s(5)). If the phase delay varies with frequency, harmonics may be sharpened or flattened relative to the fundamental frequency. The original algorithm used equal weighting on two adjacent samples, as this can be achieved without multiplication hardware, allowing extremely cheap implementations.

Z-transform analysis can be used to get the pitches and decay times of the harmonics more precisely, as explained in the 1983 paper that introduced the algorithm.

A demonstration of the Karplus-Strong algorithm can be heard in the following Vorbis file. The algorithm used a loop gain of 0.98 with increasingly attenuating first order lowpass filters. The pitch of the note was A2, or 220 Hz.

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Holding the period (= length of the delay line) constant produces vibrations similar to those of a string or bell. Increasing the period sharply after the transient input produces drum-like sounds.

Refinements to the algorithm

Alex Strong and Kevin Karplus realized that the Karplus-Strong algorithm was physically analogous to a sampling of the transversal wave on a string instrument, with the filter in the feedback loop representing the total string losses over one period. Julius O. Smith III [1] and others generalized the algorithm to digital waveguide synthesis, which could also be used to model acoustic waves in tubes and on drum membranes. The first set of extensions and generalizations was presented in a paper in 1982 at the International Computer Music Conference in Venice, Italy, and published in more detail in 1983 in Computer Music Journal in an article entitled "Extensions of the Karplus Strong Plucked String Algorithm," by David A. Jaffe and Julius O. Smith.[1]

Alex Strong developed a superior wavetable-modification method for plucked-string synthesis, but only published it as a patent.

Musical Applications

The first musical use of the algorithm was in the work May All Your Children Be Acrobats written in 1981 by David A. Jaffe, and scored for eight guitars, mezzo-soprano and computer-generated stereo tape, with a text based on Carl Sandburg's The People, Yes. Jaffe continued to explore the musical and technical possibilities of the algorithm in Silicon Valley Breakdown, for computer-generated plucked strings (1982), as well as in later works such as Telegram to the President, 1984 for string quartet and tape, and Grass for female chorus and tape (1987).

The patent was licensed first to Mattel Electronics, which failed as a company before any product using the algorithm was developed, then to a startup company founded by some of the laid-off Mattel executives. They never got sufficient funding to finish development, and so never brought a product to market either. Eventually Yamaha licensed the patent, as part of the Sondius package of patents from Stanford. It is unknown whether any hardware using the algorithm was ever sold, though many software implementations (which did not pay any license fees to the inventors) have been released.

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