Timbre Space Representation of a Subtractive Synthesizer
Sound
2020-09-25 v1 Audio and Speech Processing
Abstract
In this study, we produce a geometrically scaled perceptual timbre space from dissimilarity ratings of subtractive synthesized sounds and correlate the resulting dimensions with a set of acoustic descriptors. We curate a set of 15 sounds, produced by a synthesis model that uses varying source waveforms, frequency modulation (FM) and a lowpass filter with an enveloped cutoff frequency. Pairwise dissimilarity ratings were collected within an online browser-based experiment. We hypothesized that a varied waveform input source and enveloped filter would act as the main vehicles for timbral variation, providing novel acoustic correlates for the perception of synthesized timbres.
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@article{arxiv.2009.11706,
title = {Timbre Space Representation of a Subtractive Synthesizer},
author = {Cyrus Vahidi and George Fazekas and Charalampos Saitis and Alessandro Palladini},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.11706},
year = {2020}
}