Singing-driven interfaces for sound synthesizers

Jordi Janer, Xavier Serra
2008 Zenodo  
Digital musical instruments are usually decomposed in two main constituent parts: a user interface and a sound synthesis engine. The user interface is popularly referred as a musical controller, and its design is the primary objective of this dissertation. Under the title of singing-driven interfaces, we aim to design systems that allow controlling the synthesis of musical instruments sounds with the singing voice. This dissertation searches for the relationships between the voice and the sound
more » ... of musical instruments by addressing both, the voice signal description, as well as the mapping strategies for a meaningful control of the synthesized sound. We propose two different approaches, one for controlling a singing voice synthesizer, and another for controlling the synthesis of instrumental sounds. For the latter, we suggest to represent voice signal as vocal gestures, contributing with several voice analysis methods. To demonstrate the obtained results, we developed two real-time prototypes.
doi:10.5281/zenodo.3685558 fatcat:lnxevw4cmzht5m6rz2tgtk6a4y