Re: initial transients of musical instruments

[John Lazzaro <lazzaro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> alexander lerch <lerch@ZPLANE.DE> writes
>
> I am looking for references or links to publications about the
> intial transients of musical instruments. I'm particularly
> interested in woodwind and string instruments.

One area that has seen a lot of work, because of its commercial
significance, is detecting the pitch of a musical tone from the
initial transient -- this is useful for boxes that let acoustic
instruments control music synthesizers in real time. I don't
have a full bibliography handy, but these two links give a
flavor for the type of work in the field:

http://www.glui.de/proj/traguisma.html

http://www.peabody.jhu.edu/~ich/research/icmc99/icmc99.pitch.pdf

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