Timbral description of musical instruments
Alastair C. Disley, David M. Howard, Andy Hunt · 2006
Musicians intuitively describe timbre using adjectives such as bright or clear. This research aims to establish a set of uncorrelated and consistently used timbral adjectives that could be used to control a future synthesis system. Fifteen timbral adjectives were selected from previous studies and refined in a pilot experiment to: bright, clear, warm, thin,