[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":90},["ShallowReactive",2],{"$f1cd8e81ml9gwg":3},{"type":4,"name":5,"blurb":6,"color":7,"category":8,"about":9,"description":10,"aboutHtml":9,"howHtml":11,"inputs":12,"outputs":22,"controls":26,"tryHtml":36,"lessons":39,"guides":64,"terms":68,"siblings":69},"string","Plucked String","Karplus-Strong physical model: a burst of noise ringing in a tuned delay line.","#ff5d73","Sources","A physical model of a plucked string — guitar, harp, koto, and plenty that never existed.","A physical model of a plucked string — guitar, harp, koto, and plenty that never existed. Every input, output and knob explained, with patches to try.","Karplus-Strong synthesis: a short burst of \u003Ca class=\"term\" href=\"\u002Flearn\u002Fglossary#noise\" title=\"A random signal containing many frequencies at once: hiss, wind, surf, snares.\">noise\u003C\u002Fa> is fed into a delay line exactly one pitch-period long, and a gentle \u003Ca class=\"term\" href=\"\u002Flearn\u002Fglossary#filter\" title=\"Removes part of the frequency range, making a sound darker, thinner or more focused.\">filter\u003C\u002Fa> in the loop softens it on every trip round. The noise “settles” into a tone that sounds remarkably like a real string. \u003Ca class=\"term\" href=\"\u002Flearn\u002Fglossary#adsr\" title=\"Attack, Decay, Sustain, Release: the four stages of the most common envelope.\">Decay\u003C\u002Fa> sets how long it rings, Bright how much of the pluck’s edge survives.",[13,16,19],{"label":14,"html":15},"PLUCK","Pluck! Each rising edge fires a fresh burst into the string.",{"label":17,"html":18},"V\u002FOCT","Pitch, 1.0 per octave. Changing it while a note rings bends the string.",{"label":20,"html":21},"EXCITE","Feed any audio into the string to make it resonate (a “bowed” or “sympathetic” string). Try noise or drums.",[23],{"label":24,"html":25},"OUT","The string.",[27,30,33],{"label":28,"html":29},"Tune","Base pitch.",{"label":31,"html":32},"Decay","Ring time.",{"label":34,"html":35},"Bright","Dark and woody (left) to bright and metallic (right).",[37,38],"\u003Ca class=\"term\" href=\"\u002Flearn\u002Fglossary#sequencer\" title=\"Plays a repeating pattern of notes or values, one step per clock pulse.\">Sequencer\u003C\u002Fa> \u003Ca class=\"term\" href=\"\u002Flearn\u002Fglossary#gate\" title=\"An on\u002Foff signal: high while a key or step is held, low when it is not.\">GATE\u003C\u002Fa> → PLUCK and \u003Ca class=\"term\" href=\"\u002Flearn\u002Fglossary#v-oct\" title=\"The pitch standard: each +1 on the input raises the pitch by one octave.\">V\u002FOCT\u003C\u002Fa> → V\u002FOCT: an instant harp.","Noise into EXCITE with no pluck: a bowed, singing string.",[40,44,49,54,59],{"slug":41,"name":42,"title":5,"n":43},"18-plucked-string","18 · Plucked String",18,{"slug":45,"name":46,"title":47,"n":48},"34-looper","34 · Looper","Looper",34,{"slug":50,"name":51,"title":52,"n":53},"39-bouncing-balls","39 · Bouncing Balls","Bouncing Balls",39,{"slug":55,"name":56,"title":57,"n":58},"44-stereo-mixer-width-and-sends","44 · Stereo Mixer: Width & Sends","Stereo Mixer: Width & Sends",44,{"slug":60,"name":61,"title":62,"n":63},"48-recorder","48 · Recorder","Recorder",48,[65],{"slug":66,"title":67},"oscillators","Oscillators: where every sound starts",[],[70,74,78,82,86],{"type":71,"name":72,"blurb":73,"color":7},"vco","VCO","Oscillator with sub. V\u002FOCT is 1.0 per octave.",{"type":75,"name":76,"blurb":77,"color":7},"noise","Noise","White, pink and brown noise.",{"type":79,"name":80,"blurb":81,"color":7},"drums","Drum Trio","Kick, snare and hat voices. Feed them gates.",{"type":83,"name":84,"blurb":85,"color":7},"reso","Resonator","A bank of tuned resonators. Strike it, or feed it drums or noise: bells, bars, gongs.",{"type":87,"name":88,"blurb":89,"color":7},"wto","Wavetable","Morphs through four waveforms of a table. Width bends the wave (PWM on squares).",1792599838572]