Ning Hu’s Ph.D. Thesis

Automatic Construction of Synthetic Musical Instruments and Performers

• Sound Examples
• Thesis Proposal

Sound Examples

1. Instrument: B-flat trumpet
Melody: English Suite Movement V: Finale
1. Original audio recording performed by Roger Dannenberg:
2. MIDI representing the score: finale.mid;
3. Synthesized audio from MIDI using a software synthesizer and with a trumpet instrument sound: ;
4. Synthesized audio from MIDI with the instrument model and performance model described in this thesis *: .
   * None of the information in the original audio recording was used to create this example. The models used here were learned from performances of other music;
2. Instrument: Bassoon
Melody: Emerald - 1st Part
1. Original audio recording performed by Mark Dalrymple: ;
2. MIDI representing the score: emerald.mid;
3. Synthesized audio from MIDI using a software synthesizer and with a bassoon instrument sound: ;
4. Synthesized audio from MIDI with the instrument model and performance model described in this thesis *: .
   * None of the information in the original audio recording was used to create this example. The models used here were learned from performances of other music.