Real-Time Feature-Based Synthesis for Live Musical Performance

Matt Hoffman, and Perry R. Cook

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract

A crucial set of decisions in digital musical instrument design deals with choosing mappings between parameters controlled by the performer and the synthesis algorithms that actually generate sound. Feature-based synthesis offers a way to parameterize audio synthesis in terms of the quantifiable perceptual characteristics, or features, the performer wishes the sound to take on. Techniques for accomplishing such mappings and enabling feature-based synthesis to be performed in real time are discussed. An example is given of how a real-time performance system might be designed to take advantage of feature-based synthesis's ability to provide perceptually meaningful control over a large number of synthesis parameters.

Citation

Matt Hoffman, and Perry R. Cook. 2007. Real-Time Feature-Based Synthesis for Live Musical Performance. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1177117

BibTeX Entry

@inproceedings{Hoffman2007,
 abstract = {A crucial set of decisions in digital musical instrument design deals with choosing mappings between parameters controlled by the performer and the synthesis algorithms that actually generate sound. Feature-based synthesis offers a way to parameterize audio synthesis in terms of the quantifiable perceptual characteristics, or features, the performer wishes the sound to take on. Techniques for accomplishing such mappings and enabling feature-based synthesis to be performed in real time are discussed. An example is given of how a real-time performance system might be designed to take advantage of feature-based synthesis's ability to provide perceptually meaningful control over a large number of synthesis parameters. },
 address = {New York City, NY, United States},
 author = {Hoffman, Matt and Cook, Perry R.},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1177117},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 keywords = {Feature, Synthesis, Analysis, Mapping, Real-time. },
 pages = {309--312},
 title = {Real-Time Feature-Based Synthesis for Live Musical Performance},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2007/nime2007_309.pdf},
 year = {2007}
}