Abstract
To many music listeners, electronic instruments such as synthesizers or virtual instruments can be easily distin- guished from physical instruments due a synthetic or inorganic quality of their timbre. A seasoned musician that has developed a technique of sound and articulation with a physical instrument would find it challenging to obtain the same kind of real-time physical control over the timbre of a virtual instrument or synthesizer. To address this issue, we have developed the Harmonic Modulator Envelope filters which combines the dynamics of a physical instrument’s timbre with audio synthesized from a virtual instrument. We demonstrate the power of this tool by extracting features of the timbre of a melody that was played on a guitar, and re-combining those features with the same melody rendered on a virtual instrument.
How to Cite
Goodall, T. B., (2021) “Harmonic Modulator Envelope filters: Expanding Acoustic Instruments Through Digital synthesis”, Capstone, The UNC Asheville Journal of Undergraduate Scholarship 34(2).
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