A comparison between local search and genetic algorithm methods for wavetable matching

AES: Journal of the Audio Engineering Society

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 314-324

  Wun, Simon ^a   Horner, Andrew ^a,b  

^a AES ^*  (Hong Kong)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOCAL SEARCH METHOD; OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS; SPECTRAL SNAPSHOTS; WAVETABLE MATCHING;

ACOUSTIC DEVICES; ACOUSTIC WAVE EFFECTS; ERROR CORRECTION; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS;

EID: 33746398087     PISSN: 15494950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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