Spectrum Piano

Question

https://www.spectrumpiano.com/

I'd describe this (from my very quick read of the website) as a kind of e-bow style piano preparation.

The audio demos sound fascinating and quite inspiring.  I'm definitely going to be mucking around with piano spectra in Kyma soon :)

Comments

Hey that's really cool!

How would you approach doing this in Kyma? Take a piano sample or wave form and harmonically filter it. Or build a some kind of physical string model and drive it at higher harmonics?

I'd be really interested to hear how you get on if you give this a go!

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Looking at Doug Blackley's picture again I'm thinking it could be even more fun to use kyma as the engine to drive the electro-magnets in a stringed instrument. Those are serious looking magnets he's got there - substantial looking heat sinks.

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same here, give us those magnets! :)

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Reading further on the site the device only covers a fairly small set of the lower piano strings and achieves higher pitches from the harmonics of the strings.
I'm thinking a non linear timeindex and some manipulation of the amps leg of a spectrum for a start

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Could you use a crossfilter or something similar to create a resonant filter based on the piano string's wave form and then stimulate it with a virtual magnet?

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Hmmm sounds like a job for some slipstick action ;)

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or ModalFilter!