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Today’s global economy offers more opportunities, but is also more complex and competitive than ever before. This fact leads to a wide range of research activity in different fields of interest, especially in the so-called high-tech sectors. This book is a result of widespread research and development activity from many researchers worldwide, covering the aspects of development activities in general, as well as various aspects of the practical application of knowledge

Macintosh Graphical Interface and Improvements to Generalized Diphone Control and Synthesis

cote interne IRCAM: Rodet96a/National audienceGeneralized Diphone control is a powerful means of building amusical phrase from dictionaries of sound units by concatenatingand articulating them. Musical phrases can be built from anysound units (not only instrumental sounds but any recorded orsynthetic sounds) stored in the form of time varying controlparameters of any synthesis method such as additive synthesis,source-filter synthesis or physical model.A new musical sentence is obtained by the concatenation ofparameters from the sequence of diphones also called segments,representing the sentence.We present version 1.1 of the Diphone software andits graphical user interface for Apple Macintosh, which bringnew improvements and possibilities both from the conceptual and theimplementation point of view.Diphone constitutes a very flexibleand inspiring tool for composition and synthesis,which musicians are now using at IRCAM for music production