Painting as an interface for timbre design

  • Authors:
  • Michael Bylstra;Haruhiro Katayose

  • Affiliations:
  • Kwansei Gakuin University, Sanda, Japan;Kwansei Gakuin University, Sanda, Japan

  • Venue:
  • ICEC'05 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Entertainment Computing
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

There is a challenge in designing a system for timbre design that is engaging for new users and enables experienced users to intuitively design a diverse range of complex timbres. This paper discusses some of the issues involved in achieving these aims and proposes that a timbre can be intuitively represented as an image. The design of TimbrePainter, a system that uses images painted with a mouse to specify the parameters of a harmonic additive synthesizer, is described.