Feature-Based Synthesis: Mapping Acoustic and Perceptual Features onto Synthesis Parameters

Substantial progress has been made recently in finding acoustic features that describe perceptually relevant aspects of sound. This paper presents a general framework for synthesizing audio manifesting arbitrary sets of quantifiable acoustic features of the sort used in music information retrieval and other sound analysis applications. The methods described have broad applications to the synthesis of novel musical timbres, processing by analysisresynthesis, efficient audio coding, generation of psychoacoustic stimuli, and music information retrieval research.