Plucked Vst
Nakita Heitmann
Marc's suggestion was, of course, correct! And I did research the command and tried it before reaching out here. Something was interfering with the arco/pizz command. For you MuseScore forensic pathologists: score uses "plucked strings: Acoustic Bass" (FluidR3mono) throughout, except for small sections. Incorrectly, I "changed instrument" to "bowed strings: Contrabass" in those sections. Then, after researching the command, I tried to apply it without first removing the instrument changes.
Indeed, initially selecting a single instrument - e.g., acoustic bass (plucked) for jazz, or contrabass (bowed) for symphonic - and then using the palette text to change to/from arco/pizz. is far simpler than changing the instruments themselves.
Plucked string instruments are a subcategory of string instruments that are played by plucking the strings. Plucking is a way of pulling and releasing the string in such a way as to give it an impulse that causes the string to vibrate. Plucking can be done with either a finger or a plectrum.
Most plucked string instruments belong to the lute family (such as guitar, bass guitar, mandolin, banjo, balalaika, sitar, pipa, etc.), which generally consist of a resonating body, and a neck; the strings run along the neck and can be stopped at different pitches. The zither family (including the Qann/kanun, autoharp, kantele, gusli, kannel, kankles, kokles, koto, guqin, gu zheng and many others) does not have a neck, and the strings are stretched across the soundboard. In the harp family (including the lyre), the strings are perpendicular to the soundboard and do not run across it. The harpsichord does not fit any of these categories but is also a plucked string instrument, as its strings are struck with a plectrum when the keys are depressed.
Bowed string instruments, such as the violin, can also be plucked in the technique known as pizzicato; however, as they are usually played with a bow, they are not included in this category. Struck string instruments (such as the piano) can be similarly plucked as an extended technique.
Plucked string instruments are not a category in the Sachs-Hornbostel classification, aside from 335 and 336, as some of them are simple chordophones and others are composite (depending on whether the resonator is the removable part of the instrument).
This was a small project I did right after my neighbor lent me his 4 string banjo. I put it in Irish tuning and plucked the strings in 2-3 dynamic layers and 2 RRs about every minor 3rd. Have fun with it!
Oh this one has a great sound to it! It is sampled nicely, it's responsive, dynamic and it has this mellow, felt-like sound that you don't really expect from a banjo. The inclusion of release trigger samples and control is always a very nice option. In case you want to go hard on it, be sure to reduce the instrument volume by a few db because it can clip in top velocities.
While as a guitar player i never really find instruments like this realistic i acctually really like the dynamics and tone of this one. I think it would sound cool to layer this ontop of real acoustic guitar. Kevin Bean check out his track The Sower layers banjo ontop of acoustic guitar and it sounds great. I might try this with this library. The download size is pretty big for this type of instrument and i think thats reflected in the dynamic layers and round robins we get. Overall even though im usually not impressed with these instruments this one acctually inspired me which is cool
There's a lot to like about this characterful banjo. Its tone is a bit wooly, but I see that as a good thing. It generally doesn't require quite as much taming as a typical banjo to sit nicely in the mix. it might be a bit limited in terms of where you can use it, but it's a unique voice, and a worthy download.
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For my recent tracks I enjoyed very much using synths for plucked string sounds instead of samples because I have much more control over the sound and really can design exactly the pluck sound I need. Which synths that are good at plucked strings do you know? So far I found
I'm sure someone will come and recommend any of the modulars like Drambo, Sunvox, Mirack, zMors, Jasuto, Audulus, etc
But patching up may be more work than needed if you already have great options
@krassmann said:
For my recent tracks I enjoyed very much using synths for plucked string sounds instead of samples because I have much more control over the sound and really can design exactly the pluck sound I need. Which synths that are good at plucked strings do you know? So far I found
Drambo's Waveguide and and Comb modules do good strings, nylons, plucks, harpsichords, typical karplus
strong stuff.
+1 for Audio Modelling pizzicato. Really great on their double bass and cello models.
Thanks for additions. I did not try the other IceGear synths because I think that they put all their algorithms into Lagrange or do you think Mersenne and Laplace have got a significantly different character than the corresponding algorithms in Lagrange?
AddStation easily shines for mallets (the best in my opinion) but can also be good for plucked strings. Just draw the partials/attack/decay profile of a stringed instrument, add a pinch of inharmonicity.
And the polyphony is very good, contrary to most of the synths.
Reason Compact has the Karplus-Strong algorithm, and its pristine audio quality lends itself well to preserving the harmonics of a pluck. I love the sound engine, and it also has a really cool knob animation. However, it's not AU, it receives very little support, and it has contained some glitches since release.
Yeah that karptlus strong is sweet. ITs great on the micro freak. It is deff in the plectrum app as an option. It can be harsh and also the settings are a bit obscure, rather the knobs and names of them. It can be hard to make a good patch but you really get rewarded. Now if you want a 4 tet pluck that more synthy (or that what ive heard)
Cheers man! these user oscillators really changed my outlook on the 'logue' family and the NTS-1. Before, the Minilogue XD was just a boring poly synth to me - now it's a hybrid karplus strong synthesizer, and a badass drum machine.
If your bird is plucked, it is likely that you care more about it than he does. Try not to feel embarrassed by his appearance, and if you carry guilt, let it go. It is pointless for you to assume blame for something unforeseen and impossible to understand. There are NO experts in this area. No one fully understands why birds do this. We can only scramble to try to find a solution when it happens.
illustrates a combination of the first harmonic (the basic frequency) and the second harmonic. The combination of overtones is different from a clarinet to a guitar, for example, and somehow determines the "timbre" of the sound. In particular, a plucked string has a waveshape of the fundamental frequency and some overtones, I thought.
At a basic level, the waveshape in the image you posted is a graph of sound pressure over time, while the actual string in the video is a graph of string displacement over its length. The two are related, but the transformation from displacement of the string to sound in air is quite complex, and we shouldn't really expect that they would visually look similar.
For starters, the string itself is only long enough to show half of a wave cycle. If you were to pick a specific point on the string and plot its vertical displacement over time, you might get a graph more similar to the first waveform (@flawr did exactly that- see below). Or, you might not. The visual shape of a waveform is very sensitive to small changes in phase.
We can see the periodic motion that we expect, a clear fundamental frequency, a square-ish wave shape, and some "fuzz" from higher harmonics. This waveform resembles what an electric guitar pickup would "hear" if it were placed at the white line near the middle of the string (if this were an electric guitar string).
The Fourier transform allows us to decompose the shape of the string into a collection of sinusoids which correspond to the fundamental frequency and the (mostly) audible harmonics that give the note its color.
As you pluck a string and your finger loses contact with it, the string's shape is the sum of a bunch of harmonic movements that were frozen in time, now that you've let go, they continue their motion.
As per your question, the relation between the wave in your picture and the one produced by plucking is that when you pluck a string, you force it into a particular wave shape which is the sum of many harmonics and thus cannot fall into the pure shape in your picture which only uses two harmonics.
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