On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 12:27 PM, <anders.vinjar@bek.no> wrote:

>>>>> "R" == Rich Eakin <rtepub@gmail.com> writes:

R> What I'd like to find is more how the ADSR curves look for actual
R> musical phrases.

Hi Rich.

Bill Schottstaedt set up a wonderful hands-on about extracting envelopes
(amp, pitch) from recordings of birdsongs, getting great results in the
synthesis:

https://ccrma.stanford.edu/software/snd/snd/sndscm.html#animalsdoc

I've used the same approach on recordings of more complex natural
environments, but the method would be useful for recordings of notes or
phrases played on musical instruments.

Thanks! It's nice to see how this is done with CLM, and a reminder of how involved the process is before jumping into it. :) And its even more involved if you can't get the target source isolated beforehand (as is the case of most of the sounds I'd like to transcribe).

I searched the IRCAM archives, though unfortunately looking for 'envelope' tends to produce things related to spectral envelopes, not what I'm addressing at the moment.

I'd like to ask that if others wish to debate the philisophical merits of computer versus human music performance, please start a new thread. :)

cheers,

Rich