Subject: Re: initial transients of musical instruments From: John Lazzaro <lazzaro(at)CS.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 10:56:53 -0800> alexander lerch <lerch(at)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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- John Lazzaro -- Research Specialist -- CS Division -- EECS -- UC Berkeley lazzaro [at] cs [dot] berkeley [dot] edu www.cs.berkeley.edu/~lazzaro -------------------------------------------------------------------------