[Clam-devel] Re: A YES/NO question about the capability of the synthesizer & validity of the score

[Greg Kellum]

Hi Yushen,

It sounds like you're having problems with transients...  When I
generated that score for the violin sonata, I used a pitch tracker I
had been working on earlier to generate the initial score, but then, I
went back over it and made corrections to the score by hand.
Sometimes when there were transitions between notes, there simply
isn't any unambiguous pitch value, and if you force a pitch tracker to
give you a value for those frames, it will make a mistake, right?

I later added transient detection to the pitch tracker so if there was
a big change in the pitch value and the aperiodicity of the signal
jumped as well, then the new pitch value would be marked as a
transient and suppressed.  You could do something like this in the
synthesizer instead.  But the score generator has access to the
original signal and can make a much better guess as to whether a frame
is a transient than the synthesizer can.

Best,
Greg


On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 12:23 AM, Han, Yushen <yushen.han at gmail.com> wrote:
> Pau,
>
> So it is YES - my synthesizer should be able to play ANYTHING
> indicated from the score.
>
> A difficulty is that I did not know how something that is arbitrarily
> given in the score file should sound like.
> The concept of a "note" which should last at least for 50ms, may not
> apply anymore.
>
> But I can still make it work by SMS transformation. Let's hear how it
> will sound...
>
> Han, Yushen
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 6:17 PM, Pau Arumí Albó <parumi at iua.upf.edu> wrote:
>> El dc 02 de 07 de 2008 a les 18:12 -0400, en/na Han, Yushen wrote:
>>
>>> Here I have a fundamental question about the purpose of this synthesizer:
>>> Should the synthesizer be able to produce whatever the score indicates,
>>> even if it is something a real instrument / human musician would not
>>> be able to do?
>>
>> sure
>>
>>
>