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Compression and Decompression of Wavetable Synthesis Data

Authors: Maher, Robert C.

AES Convention 115 · Paper 5937 · October 2003

Abstract

Table look-up (or wavetable) synthesis methods have been widely used for many years in music synthesizers. Recently wavetable music synthesis has received new interest in the context of mobile applications such as personalized ring tones and pager notification signals. The limited amount of storage and processing available in such mobile devices makes the use of compressed wavetable data desirable. In this paper several issues related to wavetable compression are described and an efficient compression/decompression method is proposed for reducing the size of wavetable data while maintaining loop continuity and timbral quality.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 115
AES Convention
115
Paper number
5937
Publication date
October 6, 2003
Session subject
Signal Processing for Audio
Affiliation
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Convention Paper