Music technology enthusiasts have waited many years for synthesizers that allow the easy
creation of new and interesting timbres. Presently, musicians must learn the intricacies of …

Disembodied electronic sounds constitute a large part of the modern auditory lexicon, but
research into timbre perception has focused mostly on the tones of conventional acoustic …

Sound creation and editing in hardware and software synthesizers presents usability
problems and a challenge for HCI research. Synthesis parameters vary considerably in their …

Perceptual studies of timbre semantics have revealed certain consistencies in the linguistic
conceptualization of acoustic attributes. In the standard experimental paradigm, participants …

2.1 Top: Spectrogram of a signal with independent random jitters of the harmonics. Bottom:
Spectrogram of a signal with the same random jitters applied to modulate all three …

This paper presents a generic algorithm for the automatic selection of sound synthesis
parameters based on input verbal descriptions. The user can specify desired sound …

This paper gives a partial overview of what is currently going on in the emerging field known
as Artificial Intelligence and Music (AIM). In particular, it focuses on Artificial Intelligence (AI) …

This text deals with the difficult task of notating timbre by addressing how it can be classified,
synthesised, recognised and related to visual correspondences, and then looking at the …

This paper discusses the subject of automatic evolutionary sound matching: systems in
which evolutionary algorithms are used to automatically derive the parameters of a …

The sound synthesizer is an electronic musical instrument that has become commonplace in
audio production for music, film, television and video games. Despite its widespread use …