Sines+Noise Synthesis

In the late 1980s, Serra and Smith combined sinusoidal modeling with noise modeling to enable more efficient synthesis of the noise-like components of sounds [228,231,232]. In this extension, the output of the sinusoidal model is subtracted from the original signal, leaving a residual signal. Assuming that the residual is a random signal, it is modeled as filtered white noise, where the magnitude envelope of its short-time spectrum becomes the filter characteristic through which white noise is passed during resynthesis.

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About the Author: Julius Orion Smith III
Julius Smith's background is in electrical engineering (BS Rice 1975, PhD Stanford 1983). He is presently Professor of Music and Associate Professor (by courtesy) of Electrical Engineering at Stanford's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), teaching courses and pursuing research related to signal processing applied to music and audio systems. See http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/ for details.