synthesising realistic Strings on the Moog One

[golden beers]

Been obsessing over the intricacies of synthesising Stringed instruments these last months.

Please enjoy my old fat fingers combined with stock footage in this showcase of my latest moog one project

https://youtu.be/o1a79OlmjDo?si=DwYIb_TwlwHUQfS3

How to synthesise realistic string sounds


get reference material
- I used the excellent philharmonia youtube page.
They have videos of individual instruments just do a search within their channel


synthesis set up and signal flow

This is the basic set up on my One:

OSC 3 is sending FM to OSC1
OSC 3 is hard synced to OSC2
OSC 2 will control the overall pitch of the system

all oscs set to triangle

OSC 1 is the only oscillator in the audio mix pre filter
I send that to a self oscillating band pass filter (SVF)

the SVF also has FM from any one of the oscillators

because OSC 1 is passing through a self oscillating filter which is also being fed FM from another (or perhaps the same) OSC the GAIN of OSC1 in the mixer makes a huge difference to the tone

It gets way more complex, but that's the basics.

[Iaamusic]

That’s a lovely sound. Great programming.

Ian

[golden beers]

Thanks!