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🎸 Music Innovation Lab: Stiff-String Synthesis (2D)

2D canvas model of a plucked or hammered stiff string with live mode spectrum and waveform.

Physics & Mechanics2DModerate60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted⇄ 3D version
2d-music-music-innovation-simulation ↗ Open standalone
⚙ Under the hood

Interactive 2D model of a vibrating stiff string: drag the string to pluck or hammer it, and watch the mode spectrum, inharmonic partials and pickup waveform change with stiffness, damping and strike position. Optional additive-synthesis sound lets you hear conventional and genre-bending timbres.

musicstring vibrationmodal synthesisinharmonicitytimbreadditive synthesis

2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install

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