Title :
INTER:D: a drum sound equalizer for controlling volume and timbre of drums
Author :
Yoshii, Kazuyoshi ; Goto, Masataka ; Okuno, Hiroshi G.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Intell. Sci. & Technol., Kyoto Univ., Kyoto, Japan
fDate :
Nov. 30 2005-Dec. 1 2005
Abstract :
A drum sound equalizer, called INTER:D, is described that enables a listener to control the volume and timbre of bass and snare drum sounds in commercial compact-disc recordings. Although the characteristics of the drum sounds are often closely related to the impression made by a musical piece, conventional graphic equalizers cannot adjust their characteristics because they have volume sliders only for the frequency bands. INTER:D provides drum-specific volume sliders that directly control the frequency components of drum sounds, enabling a listener to intuitively cut or boost the volume of each drum. In addition, INTER:D enables a listener to replace the original timbre of each drum with another timbre selected from a drop-down list. These interactive functions are achieved using an automatic music content analysis system based on low-level audio signal processing. This system can estimate the power spectrogram of each drum sound and detect the onset times in a musical piece. Subjective experiments showed that INTER:D can add a new dimension to the way users experience music.
Keywords :
audio discs; audio signal processing; control engineering computing; disc storage; information retrieval; interactive systems; musical acoustics; musical instruments; noise abatement; volume control; INTER:D; automatic music content analysis system; compact disc recording; conventional graphic equalizer; drum sound equalizer; drum specific volume slider; frequency bands; low level audio signal processing; power spectrogram estimation; volume control;
Conference_Titel :
Integration of Knowledge, Semantics and Digital Media Technology, 2005. EWIMT 2005. The 2nd European Workshop on the (Ref. No. 2005/11099)
Conference_Location :
London
Print_ISBN :
0-86341-595-4