VOICE TO MUSICAL INSTRUMENT TRANSLATION IN A PERFORMANCE ENVIRONMENT

An investigation is described into the creation of a computer based musical instrument that, in real time, will translate a singing voice into a traditional, recognizable musical instrument. The primary goal is to make an instrument playable in a performance environment. As such, it is an interestin...

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Published inProceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering Research and Practice (SERP) pp. 54 - 60
Main Author Carelli, John
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published Athens The Steering Committee of The World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering and Applied Computing (WorldComp) 01.01.2019
Subjects
Algorithms
International conferences
Libraries
Live performance
Musical instruments
Musical performances
Musicians & conductors
Programming languages
Real time
Singers
Singing
Software
Sound
User interface
Voice recognition
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Summary:An investigation is described into the creation of a computer based musical instrument that, in real time, will translate a singing voice into a traditional, recognizable musical instrument. The primary goal is to make an instrument playable in a performance environment. As such, it is an interesting, and potentially useful study, of a human/computer interaction that requires management of the eccentricities associated with the human singing voice as well as the need to convert sung pitch into musical notes for playing on the target instrument. The effort includes techniques for pitch stabilization, vibrato filtering, latency reduction and external hardware for managing musical interpretation. It drives both on-board and, via the MIDI protocol, external virtual musical instruments.