User Guide

6
Synthesis Window
The PIPE/STRINGS Options
The Visual Editor provides 6 PIPE/STRINGS options. The pipe or string is the section of
the instrument that amplifies and adds distinctive tonal characteristics to the sound
energy generated by the driver.
• Conical (large)
This option simulates the type of conical horn used in instruments like the saxophone —
a small entrance aperture, gradually expanding to a relatively large bell.
• Conical (small)
This conical pipe has a much smaller taper than the above, more like the type of pipe
used in an oboe.
• Straight (double-ended)
A flute pipe, for example, is essentially straight along its length, but is driven at a point
somewhere between its two ends. This type of pipe is “double-ended”.
• Straight (single-ended)
Similar to a clarinet pipe — driven from one end and essentially straight right up to the
flare at the other end. In physical modelling terminology, this type of pipe is considered to
be “single-ended”.