Physical modelling in SystemC-WMS and real time synthesis of electric guitar effects

Physical models are widely used for sound synthesis and transformation. This paper presents a general methodology for the integration of physical modelling of sounds in a system level design environment using SystemC. The methodology has been applied in particular for physical modelling of electric guitar effects. The model developed has been used for a real time synthesis of a tunable electric guitar effects generator on a PC useful for the optimization of the algorithm for a future hardware implementation and integration in a DSP architecture for sound synthesis.