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I’d love to hear a synthetic instrument that’s halfway between a piano and a violin.



If I remember correctly Google open-sourced an ML toolkit to do just that a few years back, I forget the name but someone spun up an online sandbox with it that lets you experiment with combining different sample sources

edit: found it here: https://experiments.withgoogle.com/sound-maker


"The hurdy-gurdy is a stringed instrument that produces sound by a hand-crank-turned, rosined wheel rubbing against the strings. The wheel functions much like a violin bow, and single notes played on the instrument sound similar to those of a violin. Melodies are played on a keyboard"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurdy-gurdy

Andrey Vinogradov playing his https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwyznoWJDHI


Like a viola organista, perhaps?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viola_organista


Logic’s Sculpture synth allows you to create synthesis using materials, such as nylon, wood, metal, etc; and move in between them to create sounds like this. :)


That's called physical modeling.

Another synth that does this is Chrompahone by AAS:

https://www.applied-acoustics.com/chromaphone-3/

In fact it was used by Richard Devine to produce UI sounds for Google.




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