On the other hand, Western classical instruments sounds and other varieties of new sounds have long been sampled in those products. To date, no study has been carried out on analysing the waveform of the sounds produced by Malaysian folk instruments. This paper presents a methodology for the production of a high quality sound bank of selected traditional Malaysian instruments by applying the sampling synthesis method. This includes the addition of different effects and modifications. An analysis of waveforms produced by selected traditional Malaysian instruments is also presented.
Results indicate the presence of many inharmonic partials.
The sound bank produced, which can be stored in the form of software downloadable files or in the form of sound fonts, is useful as a source of musical tones which can be used in conjunction with a sequencer for the production of MIDI files utilising Malaysian folk instrument timbres.