The Caterpillar System for Data-driven Concatenative Sound Synthesis
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Concatenative data-driven synthesis methods are gaining more interest for musical sound synthesis and effects. They are based on a large database of sounds and a unit selection algorithm which finds the units that match best a given sequence of target units. We describe related work and our CATERPILLAR synthesis system, focusing on recent new developments: the advantages of the addition of a relational SQL database, work on segmentation by alignment, the reformulation and extension of the unit selection algorithm using a constraint resolution approach, and new applications for musical and speech synthesis.
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