Sound

• Sound is the result of a wave created by vibrating objects, propagated through a medium from one location to another.

• Sound is thus a mechanical wave:
  • a disturbance travelling through a medium;
  • transports energy from one location to another;

• When synthesizing sound, we may synthesize:
  1. the waveform generated by a vibrating system (signal-based modeling)
  2. the vibrating system itself (acoustic modeling)