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Painting as an Interface for Timbre Design

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There is a challenge in designing a system for timbre design that is engaging for new users and enables experienced users to intuitively design a diverse range of complex timbres. This paper discusses some of the issues involved in achieving these aims and proposes that a timbre can be intuitively represented as an image. The design of TimbrePainter, a system that uses images painted with a mouse to specify the parameters of a harmonic additive synthesizer, is described.

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  1. Kwansei Gakuin University, Gakuen, Sanda, 669-1337, Japan

    Michael Bylstra & Haruhiro Katayose

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  1. Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Osaka University, 2-1 Yamada-oka, Suita, 565-0871, Osaka, Japan

    Fumio Kishino  & Yoshifumi Kitamura  & 

  2. Department of Systems Innovation, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, 1-3, Machikaneyama, Toyonaka, 560-8531, Osaka, Japan

    Hirokazu Kato

  3. School of Science and Technology, Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan

    Noriko Nagata

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Bylstra, M., Katayose, H. (2005). Painting as an Interface for Timbre Design. In: Kishino, F., Kitamura, Y., Kato, H., Nagata, N. (eds) Entertainment Computing - ICEC 2005. ICEC 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3711. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11558651_30

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