Jehan, T., Schoner, B.

Abstract

A real-time synthesis engine that models and predicts the timbre of acoustic instruments based on perceptual features is presented. The timbre characteristics and the mapping between control and timbre parameters are inferred from recorded musical data. In the synthesis step, timbre data is predicted based on new control data enabling applications such as synthesis and cross-synthesis of acoustic instruments and timbre morphing between instrument families. The system is fully implemented in the Max/MSP environment.