Analysis, Synthesis, and Perception of Musical Sounds: The Sound of Music Book

Analysis and Synthesis of Musical Instrument Sounds: Analysis/Synthesis Methods.Analysis Results using SNDAN.Summary.- Fundamental Frequency Tracking and Applications to Music Signal Analysis: Introduction to Musical Signal Analysis in the Frequency Domain.Calculation of a Constant-Q Transform for Musical Analysis.Musical Fundamental Frequency Tracking using a Pattern Recognition Method.High-Resolution Frequency Calculation Based on Phase Differences.Applications of the High-Resolution Pitch Tracker.Summary and Conclusions.- Beyond Traditional Sampling Synthesis: Real-Time Timbre Morphing using Additive Synthesis: Introduction.Additive Synthesis Model.Additive Sound Analysis.Navigating Source Timbres: Timbre Control Space.New Possibilities for the Performer: the Continuum Fingerboard.Final Summary.- A Compact and Malleable Sines + Transients + Noise Model for Sound: Introduction.System Overview.Multi-Resolution Sinusoidal Modeling.Transform-Cided Transients.Noise Modeling.Applications.Conclusions.Acknowledgement.- Spectral Envelopes and Additive + Residual Analysis/Synthesis: Introduction.Spectral Envelopes and Source-Filter Models.Spectral Envelope Estimation Methods.Representation of Spectral Envelopes.Transcoding and Manipulation of Spectral Envelopes.Synthesis with Spectral Envelopes.Applications.Conclusions.Summary.- A Comparison of Wavetable and FM Data Reduction Methods for Resynthesis of Musical Sounds: Introduction.Evaluation of Wavetable and FM Methods.Comparison of Wavetable and FM Methods.Results.Conclusions.- The Effect of Dynamic Acoustical Features on Musical Timbre: Introduction.Global Time-Envelope and Spectral Parameters.The Experimental Control of Acoustical Variables.Conclusions and Directions for Future Research.- Mental Representation of the Timbre of Complex Sounds: Timbre: A Problematic Definition.The Notion of Timbre Space.Categories of Timbre.Conclusions.