{"id":99059,"date":"2020-09-09T13:46:43","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T18:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=99059"},"modified":"2020-09-09T13:55:48","modified_gmt":"2020-09-09T18:55:48","slug":"stomping-strings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/stomping-strings\/","title":{"rendered":"Stomping strings"},"content":{"rendered":"<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-99059-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Estampie.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Estampie.mp3\">http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Estampie.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been experimenting with the trial version of Reason Studios&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reasonstudios.com\/shop\/rack-extension\/friktion\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Friktion<\/a>, a physical-modeling synthesizer that emulates bowed instruments such as the violin. All the voices in the &#8220;Estampie&#8221; above except the percussion are instances of Friktion.<\/p>\n<p>Compared to the Applied Acoustics <a href=\"https:\/\/www.applied-acoustics.com\/string-studio-vs-3\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">String Studio<\/a>, the bowed sounds are more natural, and it&#8217;s easier to figure which knobs to twiddle to get the sound you want. However, String Studio handles plucked strings better and is more generally useful.<\/p>\n<p>While Friktion does get closer to a proper fiddle sound than most synthesizers and cheap sample sets, it&#8217;s not really convincing. It might work with a bit of reverb in a busy arrangement, but I wouldn&#8217;t want to use it solo or with just piano accompaniment. I probably will let the trial lapse and get one of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.embertone.com\/instruments\/jbviolinessential.php\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Embertone&#8217;s violins<\/a> instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been experimenting with the trial version of Reason Studios&#8217; Friktion, a physical-modeling synthesizer that emulates bowed instruments such as the violin. All the voices in the &#8220;Estampie&#8221; above except the percussion are instances of Friktion. Compared to the Applied Acoustics String Studio, the bowed sounds are more natural, and it&#8217;s easier to figure which &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/stomping-strings\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Stomping strings&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-pLJ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99059"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99070,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99059\/revisions\/99070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}