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Musical instrument acoustics reduce to a source-modifier model

Musical instrument acoustics reduce to a source-modifier model

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Sep 20, 20261 min read

Musical instrument acoustics reduce to a source-modifier model

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  • Musical instruments are analyzed as input through a modifying system to output (similarity 0.90)
  • All musical instruments and voices share a source-filter acoustic structure (similarity 0.89)
  • Measured instrument spectra reveal both the source and the sound modifiers at once (similarity 0.87)
  • Every stringed instrument is analyzable as a sound source plus modifiers (similarity 0.83)
  • Most real instruments are nonlinear and resist simple filter-cascade modelling (similarity 0.82)
  • Instrument sound equals input spectrum multiplied by body response (similarity 0.82)
  • Physically modeling sound sources enables flexible digital instruments (similarity 0.82)
  • No keyboard tuning can make every key sound justly intonated (similarity 0.81)
  • Audio coding aims to reconstruct signals while other processing modifies them (similarity 0.81)
  • Physically modeled synthesis can adjust piano characteristics without resampling (similarity 0.81)
  • Amounts of masking are expressed as dB differences, not absolute dB SPL levels. (similarity 0.81)
  • Only the octave stays perfectly in-tune in equal temperament (similarity 0.80)
  • Instrument behavior emerges from a shared set of physical mechanisms (similarity 0.80)
  • Adding soft noise can make music subjectively sound more brilliant (similarity 0.80)
  • Hard reeds fix pitch, freeing resonators to shape only harmonics (similarity 0.80)

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  • A guitar body's effect can be simulated by convolution with its measured impulse response
  • Adding soft noise can make music subjectively sound more brilliant
  • Audio coding aims to reconstruct signals while other processing modifies them
  • Continuous-excitation instruments exhibit slow attacks and steady sustain levels
  • Every acoustic instrument reduces to a source feeding a modifier that yields an output
  • Hard reeds fix pitch, freeing resonators to shape only harmonics
  • Musical instruments are analyzed as input through a modifying system to output
  • Speech production reduces to a source-filter model with glottal or noise sources