My new heaven: Sympathetic Resonant Strings! (Possible on a digital synth or VST?)
Good morning!
Imagine: Musical harmony from a single note. Impossible? Apparently not.
How can I be loving and listening to Vivaldi for 500+ years and not know the viola d' amore has 6 unplayed yet profoundly sounding Sympathetic Resonant Strings? Unplayed strings? Huh! What?
Sitar? Tanpura? Sarangi? Sarod? New menu items at Taco Bell? No! All heavenly musical instruments relying on unplayed sympathetic resonant strings. Hello Incredible India! And don't get me started on the Greek aulos, monochord or 11th century European hurdy-gurdies.
Finally, who doesn't know about the Nyckelharpa? (Just me?) It's been played for a thousand years with three playable strings and twelve unplayed sympathetic resonant strings. So I'm slow. I just found out a few weeks ago and fell in love with it. Bach cello suites on Nyckelharpa! Sublime. Sublimer. Sublimest.
- The year I discovered a new heaven. Sympathetic Resonant Strings. Sounds richer, with more depth, power and amazingly -- harmonic complexity from a single note. Imagine that! Now I don't have to. The Web Wide World of internets has plenty of instrument examples and explainers in their physics and music theory. If you don't know about Sympathetic Resonant Strings, I highly recommend even a casual cursory visit. (Yes, I used to write marketing. Why do you ask?)
All of that preface just for this one simple question: How can I play around with Sympathetic Resonant Strings on a digital synth? Which ones? Are there any string instrument VST's with Sympathetic Resonant Strings? Any with strings I can adjust? (Skilled in writing. Sucks in counting.)
The physics of the whole thing seems daunting! If not impossible. But then, I'm new to this heaven. If you're not, please enlighten me! Even if just a few lumen. (No. Not Lumon.)
Thank you for your time, patience and kindness in wanting to help a stranger. (None stranger?)
Cheers!
alexander the resonating