Development and calibration of a guitar synthesizer

AES: Journal of the Audio Engineering Society

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 766-777

  Välimäki, Vesa ^a   Tolonen, Tero ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC RESONATORS; CALIBRATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; RESONANCE;

GUITAR SYNTHESIZERS;

FREQUENCY SYNTHESIZERS;

EID: 0032165184     PISSN: 00047554     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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