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# Concatenator
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A C++ application for generating granular synthesis driven representations of
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audio files based on audio database analysis.
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This application is under development with the aim to explore the creative
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potential of combining short-time audio analyses with granular synthesis, to
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synthesize perceptually related representations of target audio files. Through
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use of analysed databases of varying sizes, an output can be generated that
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represents a mix of the spectral and temporal features of the original target
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sound and the corpus of source sounds.
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To achieve this, a technique known as "concatenative synthesis" is used. This
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form of synthesis combines the ability to window and join small segments of
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sound to create a new sound (a process known as granular synthesis), with audio
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analysis techniques capable of describing a sound in order to differentiate it
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from others. By analysing small segments in a target sound for their perceptual
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characteristics (such as pitch, timbre and loudness), it is then possible to
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compare these segments to a collection of source sounds to find perceptually
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similar segments. From this, the most perceptually similar matches can be taken
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and joined using granular synthesis techniques in order to achieve the final
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result.
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Note: This project is currently under development and is not ready for release.
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This project is based on the pysound project developed to explore concatenative
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synthesis in Python which can be found here:
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https://github.com/Pezz89/pysound
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This project's primary goal at present is to build on the performance of
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Pysound through the higher efficiency of the C++ language and to address issues
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with packaging and distribution encountered during the development of that
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project.
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