User-Defined Mappings for Spatial Sound Synthesis

Henrik von Coler, Steffen Lepa, and Stefan Weinzierl

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract:

The presented sound synthesis system allows the individual spatialization of spectral components in real-time, using a sinusoidal modeling approach within 3-dimensional sound reproduction systems. A co-developed, dedicated haptic interface is used to jointly control spectral and spatial attributes of the sound. Within a user study, participants were asked to create an individual mapping between control parameters of the interface and rendering parameters of sound synthesis and spatialization, using a visual programming environment. Resulting mappings of all participants are evaluated, indicating the preference of single control parameters for specific tasks. In comparison with mappings intended by the development team, the results validate certain design decisions and indicate new directions.

Citation:

Henrik von Coler, Steffen Lepa, and Stefan Weinzierl. 2020. User-Defined Mappings for Spatial Sound Synthesis. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4813477

BibTeX Entry:

  @inproceedings{NIME20_89,
 abstract = {The presented sound synthesis system allows the individual spatialization of spectral components in real-time, using a sinusoidal modeling approach within 3-dimensional sound reproduction systems. A co-developed, dedicated haptic interface is used to jointly control spectral and spatial attributes of the sound. Within a user study, participants were asked to create an individual mapping between control parameters of the interface and rendering parameters of sound synthesis and spatialization, using a visual programming environment. Resulting mappings of all participants are evaluated, indicating the preference of single control parameters for specific tasks. In comparison with mappings intended by the development team, the results validate certain design decisions and indicate new directions.},
 address = {Birmingham, UK},
 author = {von Coler, Henrik and Lepa, Steffen and Weinzierl, Stefan},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.4813477},
 editor = {Romain Michon and Franziska Schroeder},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 month = {July},
 pages = {464--469},
 publisher = {Birmingham City University},
 title = {User-Defined Mappings for Spatial Sound Synthesis},
 url = {https://www.nime.org/proceedings/2020/nime2020_paper89.pdf},
 year = {2020}
}