Dynamic temporal segmentation in parametric non-stationary modeling for percussive musical signals

An audio signal parametric modeling scheme is proposed that permits higher performance for representing strong sound transients. The exponentially damped sinusoids (EDS) model is considered in association with a high resolution parameter estimation approach. Such a technique is well adapted to almost every audio signal but is unfortunately not efficient when dealing with signals presenting strong temporal variations, such as percussive music signals, and causes pre-echo artifacts and weak onset dynamic reproduction which are prejudicial to listening. A system, based on the EDS model, has been developed with a transient detector and dynamic time segmentation and modeling that allows to overcome such artifacts.