Sound examples

Examples using SMS tools

These sound examples were done using the SMS software that was running on NeXTStep in the early 1990s.

• Transformations from a singing voice
  • original singing voice
  • transposition down
  • glissando up
  • time stretching
  • transposition and stretching of partials
  • transposition, time scaling and stretching of partials
  • morphing with a saxophone
  • morphing with animal sounds

• Morphing using the STFT
  • Original voice of Lluis Llach
  • From Lluis Llach to an ocean sound
  • From an ocean sound to Lluis Llach
  • Original spoken voice
  • Original music by Vivaldi
  • morph of the spoken voice with the music by Vivaldi

• Transformations from a speech phrase
  • original speech phrase
  • transposition and stretching of partials
  • glissando and stretching of partials
  • time-varying time-scaling
  • time-varying stretching of partials
  • glissando, time-varying time-scaling, and stretching of partials
  • stochastic component with time-scaling
• Variations of a flute sound by Daniel Powell
  • original staccato note on a flute
  • sequence of transformations from the staccato note
• Various morphs
  • morphing between a cello note and the word cello
  • progresive morphing from a flute to a voice and glissando transformations
  • progresive morphing from a flute to a voice
  • progresive morphing from a flute to a voice and glissando transformations
  • from a trombone note to a flute note

Examples from the PhD Thesis

All these examples are part of the PhD thesis and are described there.

• Sound example 8: Guitar passage
  • original sound
  • deterministic synthesis
  • stochastic synthesis
  • deterministic plus stochastic synthesis
  • frequency transposition by a factor of .3
  • frequency transposition by .7 and stretching of partials
  • compression of the frequency evolution
  • inversion of the frequency evolution
  • time-varying glissando and stretching of partials
  • time-varying time-scale
  • time expansion by 2.3
  • time expansion by 2.3 with time-varying time-scale and stretching of partials
  • time compression by .5 with time-varying time-scale and stretching of partials
  • time compression by .5 and frequency transposition by a factor of .4
  • time compression by .5 and glissando down

• Sound example 9: Speech phrase
  • original sound
  • frequency transposition by a factor of .6
  • compression of the frequency evolution and frequency transposition by a factor of .4
  • frequency transposition by .4 and stretching of partials
  • time-varying glissando and stretching of partials
  • time-varying time-scale and time-varying compression of the frequency evolution
  • from deterministic to stochastic signal
  • time expansion by 3 of only stochastic component and time-varying time-scale

• Sound example 10: Conga passage
  • original sound
  • deterministic synthesis
  • stochastic synthesis
  • deterministic plus stochastic synthesis
  • compression of the frequency evolution
  • compression of the frequency evolution and frequency transposition by .3
  • compression of the frequency evolution and frequency transposition by 2
  • stretch partials
  • glissando down
  • glissando up
  • time-varying change of noise component
  • time-varying time-scale
  • time-varying time-scale (inverse of previous example)
  • time-varying time-scale and time-varying stretch partials
  • change of the frequency evolution
  • inverse of the previous example
  • time expansion by 3

• Sound example 12: Piano passage
  • original sound
  • deterministic synthesis
  • stochastic synthesis
  • deterministic plus stochastic synthesis
  • frequency transposition by .5
  • compression of the frequency evolution
  • time-varying stretch partials

• Sound example 14: Speech-phrase hybridized with other sounds
  • speech sound
  • cat sound
  • cross-synthesis of cat with speech
  • cow sound
  • cross-synthesis of cow and speech
  • gong sound
  • cross-synthesis of gong and speech
  • plane sound
  • cross-synthesis of plane and speech
  • ship creaking sound
  • cross-synthesis of ship creaking and speech