Guitar synthesis

I was researching how MATLAB analyzes sine waves and is able to play sound, and I thought it would be a really cool project to try to synthesize a guitar sound using MATLAB based on a guitar's unique harmonics. However, I am a novice user of MATLAB and have no idea how to do this. How would I create a guitar synthesizer using MATLAB?

[Jonathan]

Here is an interesting article I found on this: http://amath.colorado.edu/pub/matlab/music/Petersen04CMJ.pdf

[Walter Roberson]

If you look in the MATLAB File Exchange (FEX), you will find a contribution that does piano synthesis. I know that isn't the right instrument, but you should probably have a look at it anyhow in order to study how they interact with the user and how they create their sounds and how the sound gets played.

[Jonathan]

Thanks. I'll go check it out.

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[Wayne King]

See this demo in the Signal Processing Toolbox:

http://www.mathworks.com/products/signal/demos.html?file=/products/demos/shipping/signal/filterguitardemo.html

[Jonathan]

Thanks! This is really helpful.

[Image Analyst]

Link no longer works.

[David]

do you have updated link?