The World’s Best Violins Sing Like Humans

Re:The World’s Best Violins Sing Like Humans by jarmitage on Tuesday May 22, 2018 @02:05PM (#17128057)

I played a concert with a violinist recently, where I was live coding audio effects for each string independently via a quadraphonic pickup.

I was particularly struck by this effect when I pitch shifted certain strings by certain amounts - the timbre took on a distinctly vocal quality. I think it was when I shifted the A string up one octave.

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Re:The World’s Best Violins Sing Like Humans by toufka on Tuesday May 22, 2018 @06:14PM (#17129847)

Also, each violin also has particular "sweet-spots", where when you play them it really does feel "whole" and voice-like for a particular note. A good violin may have one such sweet spot (hopefully in a commonly used key/register), while a great violin may have many such sweet spots for many different notes and keys.

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Re:The World’s Best Violins Sing Like Humans by skeletonjelly on Tuesday May 22, 2018 @07:37PM (#17130379)

Interesting! Can you tell me more?

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