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US 2021/0082391 A1Published application
Sound effect synthesis
AssigneeQueen Mary University of London
InventorsJoshua REISS, Thomas VASSALLO, Adan BENITO, Parham BAHADORAN
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AssigneeQueen Mary University of London
InventorsJoshua REISS, Thomas VASSALLO, Adan BENITO, Parham BAHADORAN
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Disclosed herein is a sound synthesis system for generating a user defined synthesised sound effect, the system comprising: a receiver of user defined inputs for defining a sound effect; a generator of control parameters in dependence on the received user defined inputs; a plurality of sound effect objects, wherein each sound effect object is arranged to generate a different class of sound and each sound effect object comprises a sound synthesis model arranged to generate a sound in dependence on one or more of the control parameters; a plurality of audio effect objects, wherein each audio effect object is arranged to receive a sound from one or more sound effect objects and/or one or more other audio effect objects, process the received sound in dependence on one or more of the control parameters and output the processed sound; a scene creation function arranged to receive sound output from one or more sound effect objects and/or audio effect objects and to generate a synthesised sound effect in dependence on the received sound; and an audio routing function arranged to determine the arrangement of audio effect objects, sound effect objects and scene creation function such that one or more sounds received by the scene creation function are dependent on the audio routing function; wherein the determined arrangement of audio effect objects, sound effect objects and the scene creation function by the audio routing function is dependent on the user defined inputs.
A sound synthesis system for generating a user defined synthesised sound effect, the system comprising:
The sound synthesis system according to any preceding claim, wherein each sound synthesis model comprises an algorithm configured to generate a synthesised sound in dependence on one or more of the control parameters.
The sound synthesis system according to any preceding claim, wherein each of the sound synthesis models comprises a plugin.
The sound synthesis system according to any preceding claim, wherein each of the audio effect object comprises an algorithm configured to process a received sound in dependence on one or more of the control parameters.
The sound synthesis system according to any preceding claim, wherein each of the audio effect objects comprises a plugin.
The sound synthesis system according to any preceding claim, wherein the sound synthesis system is arranged to operate substantially in real time.
The sound synthesis system according to any preceding claim, wherein the sound effect object comprises a spatialisation function for generating sound effects directed towards a position in a virtual space.
The sound synthesis system according to any preceding claim, wherein, for each sound generated by one or more of the sound effect objects, the audio routing function is arranged to determine the order in which a plurality of the audio effect objects process the sound;
The sound synthesis system according to any preceding claim, wherein the scene creation function generates the synthesised sound effect in dependence time data for each of the sound effect objects.
The sound synthesis system according to any preceding claim, further comprising a graphical user interface for receiving inputs user defined inputs.
The sound synthesis system according to any preceding claim, wherein the control parameters comprise global parameters that are the same for each sound effect object and audio effect object in a synthesis track and/or auxiliary channel for a sound effect.
The sound synthesis system according to any preceding claim, wherein the control parameters comprise object specific parameters that are the same or different for each sound effect object and audio effect object in a synthesis track and/or auxiliary channel for a sound effect.
The sound synthesis system according to any preceding claim, wherein the user defined inputs are user intuitive inputs;
The sound synthesis system according to any preceding claim, wherein the sound synthesis system is computer-implemented.
The sound synthesis system according to any preceding claim, wherein the number of different classes of sound that can be generated by sound effect objects is 100.
A method of synthesising a user defined synthesised sound effect, the method comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.