Procedural audio may be defined as real-time sound generation according to programmatic
rules and live input. It is often considered a subset of sound synthesis and is especially …

Programming sound synthesizers is a complex and time-consuming task. Automatic
synthesizer programming involves finding parameters for sound synthesizers using …

We consider the problem of estimating a target vector by querying an unknown multi-output
function which is stochastic and expensive to evaluate. Through sequential experimental …

Synthesizers are widely used electronic musical instruments. Given an input sound, inferring
the underlying synthesizer's parameters to reproduce it is a difficult task known as sound …

Sound synthesis is the process of generating artificial sounds through some form of
simulation or modelling. This article aims to identify which sound synthesis methods achieve …

A typical audio mixer interface consists of faders and knobs that control the amplitude level
as well as processing (eg equalization, compression and reverberation) parameters of …

A sound synthesizer can be defined as a program that takes a few input parameters and
returns a sound. The general sound synthesis problem could then be formulated as: given a …

Typical synthesizers only provide controls to the low-level parameters of sound-synthesis,
such as wave-shapes or filter envelopes. In contrast, composers often want to adjust and …

The aim of this thesis is to investigate techniques for, and applications of automatic sound
synthesizer programming. An automatic sound synthesizer programmer is a system which …

Parametric optimisation techniques are compared in their abilities to elicit parameter settings
for sound synthesis algorithms which cause them to emit sounds as similar as possible to …