Simulation of Drum kit synthesizer

Abstract

The World is slowly turning out from hard work to smart work i.e. from hardware to software. The Purpose of envelope generation is to provide a feel of Drum kit. The various parts of Drum kit can be felt, played and heard with real time simulation. The Karplus Strong Algorithm is used to generate the sounds of different instruments like cymbal, metallic plink, kick drum, Hihat. The elementary signals like sine wave, square wave have been used in order to get the appropriate sounds of different instruments. The actual sound of the particular instrument like snare drum and Tom Tom are generated by using the Butterworth filter of different order. The Physical appearance of the whole drum kit can be visualized on a Graphical User Interface and this can analyze and synthesize the sounds with different frequencies [4]. The users can play the instruments through a keyboard and generate their own music notes, melodies, songs. This Software based kit can be helpful in learning the different musical instruments. The overall approach was to provide a software based sound system which is adaptable, cost effective, can be easily affordable for the users, through which different music notes can be generated etc. This work can be further expanded for creating any software based musical studio.