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Automatic Design of Sound Synthesis Techniques by means of Genetic Programming

Authors: Garcia, Ricardo A.

AES Convention 113 · Paper 5654 · October 2002

Abstract

Design of Sound Synthesis Techniques (SST) is a hard problem. It is usually assumed that it requires human ingenuity to find a suitable solution. Many of the SSTs commonly used are the fruit of experimentation and long refinement processes. An automated approach for design of SSTs is proposed. The problem is stated as a search in the multidimensional SST space. It uses Genetic Programming (GP) to suggest valid functional forms, and standard optimization techniques to fit their internal parameters. A psychoacoustic auditory model is used to compute the perceptual distance between the target and test sounds. The developed AGeSS (Automatic Generator of Sound Synthesizers) system is introduced, and a simple example of the evolved SSTs is shown

Details

Published in
AES Convention 113
AES Convention
113
Paper number
5654
Publication date
October 6, 2002
Session subject
Signal Processing
Affiliation
Chaoticom, Hampton Falls, NH (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Convention Paper