Yamaha

VxD

Korg

Prophecy

Technics

Seer Systems

Sound Blaster AWE64

Cakewalk

OS X

Daniel Levitin (7 May 1994). . Billboard: 102–103.

"Yamaha VL-1 revolutionizes synthesizer technology"

Sound on Sound, July 1994

Yamaha VL1. Virtual Acoustic Synthesizer

Paul Verna (2 August 1997). . Billboard: 56.

"Yamaha, Stanford join forces. Licensing program offers new technologies"

Julius O. Smith (2008). "Digital Waveguide Architectures for Virtual Musical Instruments". In David Havelock; Sonoko Kuwano; Michael Vorländer (eds.). . Springer. pp. 399–417. ISBN 978-0-387-77698-9.

Handbook of Signal Processing in Acoustics

Martin Russ (2008). . Focal Press. pp. 288–289. ISBN 978-0-240-52105-3.

Sound Synthesis and Sampling

Brian Heywood (22 Nov 2005) , PC Pro

Model behaviour. The technology your PC uses to make sound is usually based on replaying an audio sample. Brian Heywood looks at alternatives.

Stefan Bilbao (2009). . John Wiley and Sons. pp. 11–14. ISBN 978-0-470-51046-9.

Numerical Sound Synthesis: Finite Difference Schemes and Simulation in Musical Acoustics

Lutz Trautmann; Rudolf Rabenstein (2003). . Springer. pp. 77–86. ISBN 978-0-306-47875-8.

Digital sound synthesis by physical modeling using the functional transformation method

Julius O. Smith III's ``A Basic Introduction to Digital Waveguide Synthesis"

Waveguide Synthesis home page

Virtual Acoustic Musical Instruments: Review and Update

- Sound on Sound magazine, September 1998

Modeling string sounds and wind instruments

playing on Korg Oasys Youtube recording. Note the use of the joystick to control the vibrato effect of the plucked strings physical model.

Jordan Rudess

Yamaha VL1 with breath controller vs. traditional synthesizer for wind instruments