TIME DOMAIN ATTACK AND RELEASE MODELING - Applied to Spectral Domain Sound Synthesis

Cornelia Kreutzer, Jacqueline Walker, Michael O’Neill

2008

Abstract

We introduce a time-domain model for the synthesis of attack and release parts of musical sounds. This approach is an extension of a spectral synthesis model we developed: the Reduced Parameter Synthesis Model (RPSM). The attack and release model is independent from a preceding spectral analysis as it is based on the time domain sustain part of the sound. The model has been tested with linear and polynomial shaping functions and produces good results for three different instruments. The time-domain approach overcomes the problem of synthesis artifacts that often occur when using spectral analysis/synthesis methods for sounds with transient events. Moreover, the model can be combined with any synthesis model of the sustain part and offers the possibility to determine the duration of the attack and release parts of the sound.

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Kreutzer C., Walker J. and O’Neill M. (2008). TIME DOMAIN ATTACK AND RELEASE MODELING - Applied to Spectral Domain Sound Synthesis . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications - Volume 1: SIGMAP, (ICETE 2008) ISBN 978-989-8111-60-9, pages 119-124. DOI: 10.5220/0001936301190124


in Bibtex Style

@conference{sigmap08,
author={Cornelia Kreutzer and Jacqueline Walker and Michael O’Neill},
title={TIME DOMAIN ATTACK AND RELEASE MODELING - Applied to Spectral Domain Sound Synthesis},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications - Volume 1: SIGMAP, (ICETE 2008)},
year={2008},
pages={119-124},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001936301190124},
isbn={978-989-8111-60-9},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications - Volume 1: SIGMAP, (ICETE 2008)
TI - TIME DOMAIN ATTACK AND RELEASE MODELING - Applied to Spectral Domain Sound Synthesis
SN - 978-989-8111-60-9
AU - Kreutzer C.
AU - Walker J.
AU - O’Neill M.
PY - 2008
SP - 119
EP - 124
DO - 10.5220/0001936301190124