Object Reference

The following pages contain the individual Modalys object reference pages. The objects are organized in categories ranging from basic to complex instead of being ordered alphabetically.

These very basic general-purpose objects are commonly used as hammers, plectra, lips, bows, etc...

• Harmonic Oscillator - (a mono-directional One-Mass)
• Two-Mass (mono-directional)
• Two-Mass (bi-directional)

• String or Rod (mono-directional)
• String or Rod (bi-directional)

• Open/Open Tube
• Closed/Open Tube
• Closed/Closed Tube

• Rectangular Membrane (fixed at the edges)
• Circular Membrane (fixed at the edges)

• Rectangular Plate (fixed at the edges)
• Clamped Circular Plate (fixed at the edges)
• Free Circular Plate (freely vibrating)

• Free Rectangular Bar

• Violin Bridge
• Cello Bridge

These are special objects that integrate nonlinear waveguide models into the Modalys environment. They may use different physical parameters to describe them.

• Jet

These objects are not created using physical properties, but can be used as objects in the Modalys environment.

• Single-Point
• Multiple-Points
• Radiator
• Clone

Object data can additionally be read from a data file created in Modalys or externally.

• Save Object (not an object per se, but a utility for saving an object’s modal data to disk, this also appears in the object utilities section)
• Read From File
• Resonance Model Object [this might seems to be a bit buggy]
• Piano Soundboard (provided as a data file)

Modal objects can also be calculated from a user-defined 3-dimensional mesh.

Finite Element Object (a dedicated section to creating finite element objects is forthcoming)