Inharmonicity

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I tried to "recreate" a piano in Zebra and noticed that I'm not able to create inharmonicity in the higher spectrum without changing the overall fundamental. I thought about layering, tried the comb filter in diff mode and added fm + ring modulation with various inputsignals in the signalchain, but at the end I wasn't satisified with the results.

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How do you go about (musical) inharmonicity?

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Would it be possible to add/code a feature to the spectroblend mode which allows you to detune the individual harmonics? Or are there any other features of Zebra that could help me out?

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Yes there are different things to try to get those harmonics.
If you have 2 sound sources, one is the predominant tone, the other for harmonics.
Try adjusting the "keyscale" knob for the one wanting the harmonics.
Especially try that with a comb filter, in "difference" or "dissonant" modes.
and-or-
An osc set to "spectromorph" or "spectroblend" modes.
In combination with different "osc spectral fx" settings. (try odd/even-sync mojo). Then along with that try adding sync with "velocity" set to the mod source. Different wave forms, and velocity set to morph them.

You can take a look-(dl) a piano patch I did last year from this post here for ideas.
(plain piano)
http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic ... 97&start=0

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Thank you mcnoone. These pointers are very helpful.
Working with two sound sources does the job for me.

Your piano patch sounds nice, but theres no octave stretching, too.
It still sounds a little bit too synthetic.

I just wanted to find out which elements a realistic piano sound needs
to apply them to other patches. Untill now, i had no luck...

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use the comb module on dissonant or difference and play with tone/flavour controls to create string resonance

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best result so far

Pirate.mp3 - 3.56MB

but the middle-high notes aren't that good

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ZebraTamer wrote:best result so far

Pirate.mp3 - 3.56MB

but the middle-high notes aren't that good
Hey...sounds great.
The playing is amazing too.:)
Hope to get to check out the preset sometime.

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ZebraTamer wrote:best result so far

Pirate.mp3 - 3.56MB

but the middle-high notes aren't that good

on some string sounds, to get the sound how I want across a broader range of notes I will use the modmapper in keyboard mode then you can modulate a particular parameter by each note... it is tedious to go note by note... but it really lets you control the sound key by key... the only thing I wish is that there were more than 2 modmappers which is way too few

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Try this one:

http://www.xsynth.com/download/PPG_Mode ... no_b05.zip

Its an old patch but my best shot so far.

/Michael
www.xsynth.com - Sound Synthesis with Vintage flavour

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