Wind Instruments

Active Control Applied to Wind Instruments Conference Item Active Control Applied to Wind Instruments

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Real-time Spectral Synthesis for Wind Instruments

A real-time spectral domain monophonic synthesizer is being developed. The idea is to achieve the sound quality given by samplers and improve the flexibility of control and model transitions between notes. The output sound is generated concatenating, transforming and synthesizing attacks and stationeries previously recorded by a real player that have been analyzed and stored in a database. A sp...

Computer Optimization of Brass Wind Instruments

Computer optimization of brass wind instruments combines knowledge in several different areas. Usually the performance of those instruments is described by musical terms. Characteristics like intonation, response, pitch variability, sound timbre or efficiency have first to be objectified and mapped to acoustical properties which can be measured and properly predicted by computer simulation.

[Laryngeal movements during wind instruments play].

Historically, the concern of wind instrumentalists has been diaphragm control and embouchure. Laryngeal movement during "blow" has been overlooked or neglected by wind musicians. It has been said that musical tone has to be produced by the resonances of the player's air column by opening his larynx during blow. In the present study, fiberscopic observations of the larynx during blow revealed th...

Active control applied to wind instruments