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Isolating the dynamic attributes of musical timbre
Paul Iverson,Carol L. Krumhansl +1 more
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The results indicate that the dynamic attributes of timbre are not only present at the onset, but also throughout, and that multiple acoustic attributes may contribute to the same perceptual dimensions.Abstract:
Three experiments examined the dynamic attributes of timbre by evaluating the role of onsets in similarity judgments. In separate experiments, subjects heard complete orchestral instrument tones, the onsets of those tones, and tones with the onsets removed (‘‘remainders’’). Ratings for complete tones corresponded to those for onsets, indicating that the salient acoustic attributes for complete tones are present at the onset. Ratings for complete tones also corresponded to those for remainders, indicating that the salient attributes for complete tones are present also in the absence of onsets. Subsequent acoustic analyses demonstrated that this pattern of similarity was due to the centroid frequencies and amplitude envelopes of the tones. The results indicate that the dynamic attributes of timbre are not only present at the onset, but also throughout, and that multiple acoustic attributes may contribute to the same perceptual dimensions.read more
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Perceptual scaling of synthesized musical timbres: Common dimensions, specificities, and latent subject classes
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The Timbre Toolbox: extracting audio descriptors from musical signals.
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Exploration of timbre by analysis and synthesis
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TL;DR: In this article, the exploration of timbre by analysis and synthesis has been discussed, and it has been shown that timbre is not a well-defined perceptual attribute but rather an attribute of auditory sensation in terms of which a listener can judge that two sounds similarly presented and having the same loudness and pitch are different.
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Sound-source recognition: a theory and computational model
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TL;DR: A computer model of the recognition process is developed that is capable of “listening” to a recording of a musical instrument and classifying the instrument as one of 25 possibilities, based on current models of signal processing in the human auditory system.
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