Analysis and Synthesis of Musical Instrument Sounds -- Fundamental Frequency Tracking and Applications to Musical Signal Analysis -- Beyond Traditional Sampling Synthesis : Real-time Timbre Morphing Using Additive Synthesis -- A Compact and Malleable Sines + Transients + Noise Model for Sound -- Spectral Envelopes and Additive + Residual Analysis/Synthesis -- A Compasion of Wavetable and FM Data Reduction Methods for Resynthesis of Musical Sounds -- The Effect of Dynamic Acoustical Features on Musical Timbres -- Mental Representation of the Timbre of Comples Sounds

Provides an exploration of the problems of analyzing and synthesizing musical timbres. This book consists of eight chapters that span the range from tutorial introduction to advanced research and application to speculative assessment of its various techniques. It uses a generalized additive sine wave model for describing musical timbre