Sound of a rolling ball

Question

I\'m looking for the most realistic way of playing sound of a rolling ball. Currently I\'m using a Wav sample that I play over and over as long as the ball is moving - which jus

Answer 1

I really like the approach described in this SIGGRAPH paper:

http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~kvdoel/publications/foleyautomatic.pdf

It describes synthesizing the sound of a rock rolling in a wok (no, really :). The idea is to use modal synthesis (i.e. convolved impulse responses), and the results can be very convincing.

Here's a link to the video demo that goes with the paper:

http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~kvdoel/publications/foleyautomatic.mpeg

And here's a link to the JASS library (written by one of the authors), which was used to create the sound for the video:

http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~kvdoel/jass/jass.html

I'm not sure if you could make it run on a smart phone, but with an efficient enough convolution routine/approximation you might be able to do something interesting...