Spectral tools for dynamic tonality and audio morphing

William A. Sethares, Andrew J. Milne, Stefan Tiedje, Anthony Prechtl, James Plamondon

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    Abstract

    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.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)71-84
    Number of pages14
    JournalComputer Music Journal
    Volume33
    Issue number2
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2009

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