Real-Time Performance Controllers for Synthesized Singing

Perry R. Cook

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract:

A wide variety of singing synthesis models and methods exist,but there are remarkably few real-time controllers for thesemodels. This paper describes a variety of devices developedover the last few years for controlling singing synthesismodels implemented in the Synthesis Toolkit in C++ (STK),Max/MSP, and ChucK. All of the controllers share somecommon features, such as air-pressure sensing for breathingand/or loudness control, means to control pitch, and methodsfor selecting and blending phonemes, diphones, and words.However, the form factors, sensors, mappings, and algorithmsvary greatly between the different controllers.

Citation:

Perry R. Cook. 2005. Real-Time Performance Controllers for Synthesized Singing. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1176846

BibTeX Entry:

  @inproceedings{Cook2005,
 abstract = {A wide variety of singing synthesis models and methods exist,but there are remarkably few real-time controllers for thesemodels. This paper describes a variety of devices developedover the last few years for controlling singing synthesismodels implemented in the Synthesis Toolkit in C++ (STK),Max/MSP, and ChucK. All of the controllers share somecommon features, such as air-pressure sensing for breathingand/or loudness control, means to control pitch, and methodsfor selecting and blending phonemes, diphones, and words.However, the form factors, sensors, mappings, and algorithmsvary greatly between the different controllers.},
 address = {Vancouver, BC, Canada},
 author = {Cook, Perry R.},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1176846},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 keywords = {Singing synthesis, real-time singing synthesis control. },
 pages = {236--237},
 title = {Real-Time Performance Controllers for Synthesized Singing},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2005/nime2005_236.pdf},
 year = {2005}
}