A common perceptual space for harmonic and percussive timbres
@article{Lakatos2000ACP, title={A common perceptual space for harmonic and percussive timbres}, author={Stephen Lakatos}, journal={Perception \& Psychophysics}, year={2000}, volume={62}, pages={1426-1439} }
The goal of a series of listening tests was to better isolate the principal dimensions of timbre, using a wide range of timbres and converging psychophysical techniques. Expert musicians and nonmusicians rated the timbrai similarity of three sets of pitched and percussive instruments. Multidimensional scaling analyses indicated that both centroid and rise time comprise the principal acoustic factors across all stimulus sets and that musicians and nonmusicians did not differ significantly in…
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