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In principle, is it possible to create the sound of an instrument from the waveform of a different instrument?
I don't exactly disagree, with Hoagie's answer, but fact is, that the original waveform is not of much help in case of such different instruments, where the waveforms exhibit no similiarity.
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In principle, is it possible to create the sound of an instrument from the waveform of a different instrument?
Sort of. The sustain portion of most instrument sounds has a relatively simple, regular waveform which can be manipulated to sound like another instrument. I wouldn't call this 'synthesis', that ...
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In principle, is it possible to create the sound of an instrument from the waveform of a different instrument?
I’m going to answer a qualified
No
You’d struggle to make the bass sound like a flute because while it does have a harmonic spectrum that could be filtered in some ways to be similar to a flute, it ...
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In principle, is it possible to create the sound of an instrument from the waveform of a different instrument?
What does make different instruments sound differently? How do you distinguish, say, a trumpet (sound) from a violin (sound)?
There are two (three) things the ear relies on: volume, but it would be ...
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In principle, is it possible to create the sound of an instrument from the waveform of a different instrument?
By the Fourier theorem, every sound can be decomposed into a sum of pure sine waves. Finite duration or non-repeating sounds require summing an infinite number of sine wave to perfectly reconstruct, ...
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