João Duarte

Title:  Controllable Consistent Timbre Synthesis

Supervision Team: Seán O’Leary, TU Dublin / Naomi Harte, TCD

Description: The goal of the research will be to provide control over the design of consistent musical instruments. Until recently sound synthesis has been dominated by two approaches – physical modelling and signal modelling. Physical models specify a source. Once the source is specified the family of sounds coming from the source can be synthesised. Signal models, on the other hand, specify waveforms and so are very general. The major downside of signal models is that many parameters are required to specify a single sound. The goal of this project is to use machine learning algorithms to synthesise the parameters for a family of sounds related to a single source. This project will marry machine learning and signal processing techniques, including research into the use of generative algorithms, signal models and sound representations