Instrumentalizing Synthesis Models

Lonce Wyse, and Nguyen D. Duy

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract:

An important part of building interactive sound models is designing the interface and control strategy. The multidimensional structure of the gestures natural for a musical or physical interface may have little obvious relationship to the parameters that a sound synthesis algorithm exposes for control. A common situation arises when there is a nonlinear synthesis technique for which a traditional instrumental interface with quasi-independent control of pitch and expression is desired. This paper presents a semi-automatic meta-modeling tool called the Instrumentalizer for embedding arbitrary synthesis algorithms in a control structure that exposes traditional instrument controls for pitch and expression.

Citation:

Lonce Wyse, and Nguyen D. Duy. 2010. Instrumentalizing Synthesis Models. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1177925

BibTeX Entry:

@inproceedings{Wyse2010,
 abstract = {An important part of building interactive sound models is designing the interface and control strategy. The multidimensional structure of the gestures natural for a musical or physical interface may have little obvious relationship to the parameters that a sound synthesis algorithm exposes for control. A common situation arises when there is a nonlinear synthesis technique for which a traditional instrumental interface with quasi-independent control of pitch and expression is desired. This paper presents a semi-automatic meta-modeling tool called the Instrumentalizer for embedding arbitrary synthesis algorithms in a control structure that exposes traditional instrument controls for pitch and expression. },
 address = {Sydney, Australia},
 author = {Wyse, Lonce and Duy, Nguyen D.},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1177925},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 keywords = {Musical interface, parameter mapping, expressive control.},
 pages = {140--143},
 title = {Instrumentalizing Synthesis Models},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2010/nime2010_140.pdf},
 year = {2010}
}