It’s a delay line type synth that has been
specifically structured to emulate the hammered dulcimer, but it does OK
with few other simpler string instruments. It’s based around a buffer
that is seeded with an impulse, and then filtered once every period.
The envelope, Chorus and volume knobs do exactly
what the seasoned synth enthusiast would expect.
MiniErhu is the
free version of Kong Audio's upcoming ChineeErhu Vsti.
MiniErhu comes with some different expression styles to
give you a taste of the otherworldly string sound.
It generates a
grains’ flow in which the way each grain follows the
other depends on probabilistic parameters such as grain
density (attack/sec), overlapping, synchronism and fade
of each grain.
The spectrum
generated by the synthesis could be harmonic, expanded
or contracted according to the value of frequency
exponent parameter; the result will be a sound texture
that can change from noisy fragmented sounds, to
metallic and tuneless sounds such as bells, finally to
harmonic sounds similar to strings or choirs
