Metal, Glass, Wood<\/h2>\n
There are several ways to simulate resonant materials such as metal, glass and wood in GameSynth, but at the most basic level, they all involve mixing resonant modes together.<\/p>\n
The Impact<\/strong> model, for instance, comes with some handy preset buttons that will create a new material of a specific type when pressed, including all the resonant modes required. (In the Impact model, these modes can also later be used to create contact\/friction sounds after defining a surface.)<\/p>\n The Impact model also allows you to create a resonant material from the analysis of an existing sample. This is a great way to get an understanding of the modes distribution for the different types of materials: simply drop your favorite samples from your sound library and observing the results.<\/p>\n The Modular<\/strong> model \u2013 GameSynth\u2019s patching environment – can mimic the Impact<\/strong> model with its Modes<\/strong> module, with the added advantage of being able to combine it with many other types of synthesis, control, and processing modules.<\/p>\n Here are some guidelines to recreate the most common materials:<\/p>\n Wood<\/b><\/p>\n Metal<\/b><\/p>\n Glass<\/b><\/p>\n For contact\/friction sounds, the Friction<\/strong> module also comes with Material<\/em> presets for Metal<\/em>, Glass<\/em> and Wood<\/em>.<\/p>\n Finally, for metallic sounds in particular, other modules of the patching environment can be used to simulate specific types of interactions, like the Gear<\/strong> and Clang<\/strong> modules.<\/p>\n Resonant plastic impacts can also be created with the Impact<\/strong> model and the Modes<\/strong> module, although it is better to use them for objects that are not too hard, such as containers.<\/p>\n For harder plastics, however, using the Modular <\/strong>is the must:<\/p>\n Rock sounds such as debris can be created with the Rocks<\/strong> module, which can mix stones of different sizes. For a more gravel-like sound, it can be combined with the Granular Noise<\/strong> module.<\/p>\n To create rock impacts, multiple modules can be stacked.<\/p>\n As for the metal, glass and wood materials, a Rock<\/em> material is also available in the Friction<\/strong> module, to generate contact sounds.<\/p>\n Ceramic objects sound somewhere between rock and glass materials. They should exhibit the weight and noisiness of rock, with some of the resonance of glass (i.e., similar pitch, but with a much more pronounced damping<\/em>).<\/p>\n Contact sounds can also be made with the Friction<\/strong> module and the Rock Material<\/em>, although the pitch<\/em> should be higher than 0.5 in this case.<\/p>\n The stretching of rope, leather, or rubber can be simulated with the Fracture<\/strong> module of the Modular<\/strong> model.<\/p>\n Generating water, mud and other fluids can be done with the Rain<\/strong> and the Goo<\/strong> modules.<\/p>\n The GameSynth patch repository contains a large number of patches that can be used as learning resources or as a starting point for other patches. The repository supports UCS categories, which include common materials. Be sure to use the category filter, and search for metal, rock, wood, or glass to highlight example of patches that simulate these materials.<\/p>\n Although we mostly focused on generators in this post, adding processors will help you create more sounds. We already mentioned the Comb Filter<\/strong>, but the Tube<\/strong>, the Cabinet<\/strong> or the different types of filters and EQ will help you refine your material sounds. The Spectral Delay<\/strong> can also help simulating bigger resonating objects. In the repository, use the Search Modules<\/em> function, and look for the patches using the Spectral Delay in the Metal category for some examples.<\/p>\n Once you are satisfied with the way your materials sound, the control and logic modules of the Modular<\/strong> model can be used to simulate various physics-based interactions such are friction, bending, sliding, breaking, etc… By combining all this, it is possible to create more advanced patches. Here is for instance a catapult patch<\/a> that uses different types of impact, friction, and rope sounds.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/tsugi-studio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/materials\/screenshot1.jpg\")
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<\/a><\/p>\nGoing further<\/h2>\n
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