A Real-time Workstation for Physical Model of Multi-sensorial and Gesturally Controlled Instrument

Among different currents in musical sound synthesis the instrumental approach developed at ACROE with the CORDIS ANIMA project, needs specific computer and low level software architecture for the real-time interactive simulation. Since the very beginning of this project several real-time configuration have been designed in which the basic principles of physical modeling were implemented at a low software level. These researches works and the improvements of computers allow to design a specific CA station that integrates both high level modeling and compositional tools and real-time instrumental simulation.