Semi-automatic ambiance generation

P. Cano, L. Fabig, F. Gouyon, M. Koppenberger, A. Loscos, A. Barbosa

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Abstract

Ambiances are background recordings used in audiovisual productions to make listeners feel they are in places like a pub or a farm. Accessing to commercially available atmosphere libraries is a convenient alternative to sending teams to record ambiances yet they limit the creation in different ways. First, they are already mixed, which reduces the flexibility to add, remove individual sounds or change its panning. Secondly, the number of ambient libraries is limited. We propose a semi-automatic system for ambiance generation. The system creates ambiances on demand given text queries by fetching relevant sounds from a large sound effect database and importing them into a sequencer multitrack project. Ambiances of diverse nature can be created easily. Several controls are provided to the users to refine the type of samples and the sound arrangement.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the International Conference on Digital Audio Effects, DAFx
Pages319-322
Number of pages4
Publication statusPublished - 2004
Event7th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects, DAFx 2004 - Naples, Italy
Duration: 5 Oct 20048 Oct 2004

Publication series

NameProceedings of the International Conference on Digital Audio Effects, DAFx
ISSN (Print)2413-6700

Conference

Conference7th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects, DAFx 2004
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityNaples
Period5/10/048/10/04

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