Instrument Modeling.. should NI hit this hard to catch up with others?

nightjar · 2022-05-08T13:50:01+00:00

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Instrument modeling has many advantages over sampling.

NI competitors have pursued modeling with much more vigor, and the gap is getting wider.

I think NI needs to hit this as hard as possible. Modeling fits into the future of music creation better than sampling.

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DunedinDragon

I'm confused by the use of the term "modeling" in this regard. Modeling in my mind is the mathematical conversion of a measured analog circuit most commonly to it's digital representation. Are we actually talking about a "synthesized" representation as I can't grasp how one might measure the nuances of an analog instrument such that it could actually be modeled. To my ear there is a very clear difference between the two and sampled always wins.

Kubrak

It all depends how well things are modelled and also how well are things sampled. And what instrument is to be represented.

And put aside that model may also contain some kind of samples.

nightjar

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/44779#Comment_44779

Imagine a 3D model of physical object and determine how it would vibrate when dynamically struck or pulled by another object. Imagine accounting for all the mechanical characteristics of the materials used to create these objects and how they might have fixed points of attachment, and can have their vibrations dynamically dampened. Oodles of math is essentially the task.

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