Formant Synthesis
Formant Synthesis by Gordon Reid
Last month, we discussed a way of emulating acoustic musical instruments using short delay lines such as spring reverbs and analogue reverb/echo units. At the end of that article, I posed the following question: “Couldn’t we have avoided this talk of echoes, RT60s, room modes, and all that other stuff, and achieved the same result with a bunch of fixed (or ‘formant’) filters?”. This month, we’re going to answer that question.

