General information is fine. I'm just after a start point from which to experiment. I got
the idea from the Sound on Sound, Synth Secrets series, Formant Sysnthesis http://
www.soundonsound.com/sos/mar01/articles/synthsec.asp. Given that there is something
about the grouping of violin formants that makes the instrument sound violiny, I reckon
having a database of different sonic reference points must be useful. Has anyone any
experience in this I have found several online articles describing how we use formants to
identify sounds, but none show which frequencies relate to which sounds (except a bit the
Synth Secrets giving vowel formants).

Yours Aye

Stuadh

--- In Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com , "untiedstates" <untiedstates@...> wrote:
>
> Whatever you might find would likely only be general information,
> because formants are the characteristic resonances of individual
> instruments or systems.. in other words, from violin to violin the
> formants would be different, just as from one person's voice to
> another person's voice the formants would be different.
>
> You could find frequency ranges for different instruments, but each
> instrument's formants are like its fingerprint, unique to that
> particular instrument.
>
> --- In Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com , "stuadh" <stuadh@> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Does anyone have a list of the formants present in acoustic
> instruments and other non-
> > musical sounds I am looking to expand my sound design knowledge
> and having a ready
> > guide would be very useful.
> >
> > Yours Aye
> >
> > Stuadh
> >
>