This is eguitar by Gary Scavone, McGill University, 2012. This is a program to create a simple electric guitar model using the STK Guitar class. The is model is derived in part from an implementation made by Nicholas Donaldson at McGill University in 2009. The distortion model is poor, using a simple soft-clipping expression provided by Charles R. Sullivan in "Extending the Karplus-String Algorithm to Synthesize Electric Guitar Timbres with Distortion and Feedback," Computer Music Journal, Vol.14 No.3, Fall 1990. Other distortion models would be better, such as that found in Pakarinen and Yeh's "A Review of Digital Techniques for Modeling Vacuum-Tube Guitar Amplifiers," Computer Music Journal, Vol 33 No. 2, Summer 2009. This program performs simple voice management if all noteOn and noteOff events are on channel 0. Otherwise, channel values > 0 are mapped to specific string numbers. By default, the program creates a 6-string guitar. If the normalized noteOn() velocity is < 0.2, a string is undamped but not plucked (this is implemented in the stk::Guitar class). Thus, you can lightly depress a key on a MIDI keyboard and then experiment with string coupling. The Tcl/Tk GUI allows you to experiment with various parameter settings and that can be used in conjunction with a MIDI keyboard as: wish < tcl/EGuitar.tcl | ./eguitar -or -ip -im 1 For the moment, this program does not support pitch bends. In the eguitar directory, type: > make to compile and then > ElectricGuitar.bat to run the program with the Tcl/Tk GUI. There are many improvements that could be made to this project. In particular, you could record real body responses from different guitars and use those with the Guitar class. As well, you could improve the distortion model and perhaps add some typical electric guitar effects, such as an echo. If you find any bugs, please let me know!