source file: mills2.txt Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1996 16:52:05 -0800 Subject: Timbre Archive From: non12@delta1.deltanet.com (John Chalmers) This might be of interest to members of this list, especially those with samplers and Csound or other programs which generate timbres by additive synthesis. Some of these could be tweaked to improve the consonance of non-harmonic tunings (by using Bill Sethares's algorithms). --John Date: Fri, 01 Mar 1996 12:01:53 -0600 (CST) From: "Gregory J. Sandell" Subject: SHARC Timbre Database To: to_smt-list post-messages , Sound Special_interest_group , auditory Errors-To: owner-sound@ACM.ORG Message-Id: <199603011801.MAA21523@sparky.parmly.luc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Status: R Announcing the SHARC TIMBRE DATABASE and invitation to join a Timbre Discussion email list SHARC is a public domain database of musical timbre information by Gregory Sandell. It stands for "Sandell Harmonic Archive." People for whom this dataset may be useful are Acousticians, Psychoacousticians, researchers in Music Percepion and Cognition, researchers in Digital Signal Processing, Music Theorists, and Musicologists. Over 1300 different notes have been analysed. Complete chromatic runs from the standard playing range of essentially all the non-percussive instruments of the modern orchestra have been included; for example, individual analyses of 32 different oboe notes (the chromatic scale from the pitches a#3 to f6) are available. A WWW front end for SHARC is available at: http://www.parmly.luc.edu/sharc/ This page contains links to explanations of what SHARC is, how the database can be downloaded, as well as a number of graphic plots of various aspects of the data. Of special note is the ability to plot the spectra for individual notes in various ways, and to hear syntheses of the spectra over the web (if your computer is suitably set up for audio). I have a Listserver, or distributed email list, set up to keep people informed about changes I make to SHARC. I am now also inviting all timbre researchers to join to the list and use it as a forum for general discussions of issues of musical timbre. If postings become suitably frequent, and the dialogues lively, I am open to the idea of starting an independent listserv devoted to the topic. But for now, it will serve the dual purpose of being devoted to both SHARC and timbre discussion in general. The list currently has 50 members. Please join the list and tell us about your research interests in musical timbre! You can actually join SHARCLIST through a web page! (Many times less painless than the usual way of joining by sending obscure commands through email!) Simple connect to http://www.parmly.luc.edu/lwgate/SHARCLIST/SHARCLIST.html ..and follow the instructions. (Note: your web browser has to support "Forms".) Have fun! - Greg Sandell (* SHARC is unrelated to the DSP chip of the same name. ) -- Received: from eartha.mills.edu [144.91.3.20] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Sat, 2 Mar 1996 14:51 +0100 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id FAA25161; Sat, 2 Mar 1996 05:51:19 -0800 Date: Sat, 2 Mar 1996 05:51:19 -0800 Message-Id: <0099EBD002FDC49C.D1C0@ezh.nl> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu