Subject: Re: Interesting question regarding perceived note onset From: Bruno Repp <repp@xxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 10:55:29 -0400 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>Hi James: You might want to look at Matt Wright's dissertation: https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~matt/diss/Matthew-Wright-Dissertation.pdf Best, Bruno James Johnston wrote: > > Suppose we have 2 (or more) musical notes, played with some kind of > standard musical-instrument onset. Let’s use, say, piano, guitar, and > maybe a woodwind. > > What is the analytic result (looking at the analytic envelopes of the > signals) in terms of time offset (or not) that results in the notes > being perceived as exactly simultaneous? > > First, with notes nearby (to get dL’s) and then with widely spread > notes (in frequency, not time), to get a sense of how the various > bandwidths of the cochlear filtering and the bandwidth of the > instrument play off against each other. > > Interestingly I’m not actually aware of any clear results of this > sort, although they may exist, I don’t know of them. > > Has anyone heard of such a thing? > > jj > > *__________________________* > > *James D. Johnston (jj@xxxxxxxx)*** > > CHIEF SCIENTIST - DTS, Inc. > > 425-814-3200, ext. 134 - office > 425-814-3204 - fax > 206-321-7449- mobile > > 11410 NE 122nd Way, Suite 100 > Kirkland, WA 98034 > > This electronic transmission (and/or the documents accompanying it) > may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized > use, copying or distribution is prohibited. If you have received this > communication in error, please notify DTS, Inc immediately by > telephone (425-814-3200) and destroy the original message. Messages > sent to and from us may be monitored. > > Notice: > This message and any included attachments are intended only for the > use of the addressee, and may contain information that is privileged > or confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby > notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this > communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this > communication in error, please destroy the original message and any > copies or printouts hereof. -- Bruno H. Repp Haskins Laboratories 300 George Street New Haven, CT 06511-6624 Tel. (203) 865-6163, ext. 236 Fax (203) 865-8963 http://www.haskins.yale.edu/staff/repp.html