Copy-synth-patch: A Tool for Visual Instrument Design

This paper presents a new approach to design and implement instrument models within a visual programming environment. Our software synthesizer, called PWGLSynth, has been redesigned and rewritten in order to meet this challenge. We introduce a new concept, called copy-synthpatch, which allows to construct in an efficient and compact way complex nested DSP structures that in turn can be used as building blocks when building more high-level entities for physical instrument models.