TY - JOUR
T1 - Spectral tools for dynamic tonality and audio morphing
AU - Sethares, William A.
AU - Milne, Andrew J.
AU - Tiedje, Stefan
AU - Prechtl, Anthony
AU - Plamondon, James
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - The analysis-resynthesis method used by the spectral toolbox allows the independent control of both frequency and amplitude for every partial in a given sound. The spectral toolbox begins by separating the 'signal' from the 'noise' which allows the peaks in the spectrum to be treated differently from the wide-band components. The spectral mapping technology is used to map the input to a fixed destination spectrum G like the SpT.Ntet routine maps all partials of the input sound to scale steps of the N-tone equal tempered scale that can be used to create sounds that are particularly appropriate for use in a given N-TET scale. Spectral morphing generates sound that moves smoothly between a source spectrum F and a destination spectrum G over a specified time t. A Dynamic Tonality synthesizer like Trans-FormSynth has a small number of parameters that enable many musically useful, and relatively, unexplored features like the continuous parameters α,β and γ move the tuning between a number of equal temperaments, non-equal temperaments and circulating temperaments.
AB - The analysis-resynthesis method used by the spectral toolbox allows the independent control of both frequency and amplitude for every partial in a given sound. The spectral toolbox begins by separating the 'signal' from the 'noise' which allows the peaks in the spectrum to be treated differently from the wide-band components. The spectral mapping technology is used to map the input to a fixed destination spectrum G like the SpT.Ntet routine maps all partials of the input sound to scale steps of the N-tone equal tempered scale that can be used to create sounds that are particularly appropriate for use in a given N-TET scale. Spectral morphing generates sound that moves smoothly between a source spectrum F and a destination spectrum G over a specified time t. A Dynamic Tonality synthesizer like Trans-FormSynth has a small number of parameters that enable many musically useful, and relatively, unexplored features like the continuous parameters α,β and γ move the tuning between a number of equal temperaments, non-equal temperaments and circulating temperaments.
UR - http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/546911
U2 - 10.1162/comj.2009.33.2.71
DO - 10.1162/comj.2009.33.2.71
M3 - Article
SN - 0148-9267
VL - 33
SP - 71
EP - 84
JO - Computer Music Journal
JF - Computer Music Journal
IS - 2
ER -