frank.reich@postino.ch (Frank) wrote in news: <a6a3e04a.0404282236.2352ba26@posting.google.com>>I think what you're talking about has already been realized: >http://www.hartmann-music.com > >Most relevant: >http://www.hartmann-music.com/home/us/neuron/soundengine/soundengine_basics.html>and >http://neuron.prosoniq.com/The Neuron is clearly a superb synthesizer/mixer and features many powerful innovations, notably in its impressive user-interface. The website shows Stevie Wonder with the instrument, and there can scarcely be a better recommendation. The designers have trained a neural network to recognise significant tonal characteristics of sounds played to it, and users can change the sound quality by manipulating these characteristics. ("Neuron has a basic concept of the sonic qualities of a sound and how they interact with the human auditory perception. [...] Years of research [...] have been invested to deduct a set of parameters from any given sound based on pattern recognition and proprietary transform methods.") A SERAF (synaptic energy redistribution audio filter) is NOT a neural network, but uses digital signal processing techniques similar to waveshaping in an attempt to change the tone-colour of the input sound by triggering specific conceptual (that is, hypothetical but possibly real) neural synapses within the brain of the listener. I'd be interested to have an opinion from Neuron's designers on SERAFs. It is possible, but rather unlikely, that Neuron's neural network already incorporates all the potential power of SERAF methods, but in any case it would certainly be an interesting exercise to try to develop unusual SERAF sounds that Neuron does not understand - I'm sure Neuron's designers would want to be involved in such experiments. I wonder how horribly complicated the legal situation would become if the 'propriety' of Neuron's methods were ever questioned and the precise workings of a neural network became evidence in court!
Re: Psychoacoustics project
Started by ●April 29, 2004
