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Electronics and Communications
Committee of FEE CTU in Prague, announce a student competition SYNTH
CHALLENGE 2019 The competition is designed for university
students who can participate by submitting three tasks Competition Assignment: a)
Musical instrument synthesis of one of the following
compositions using MIDI files: i)
Karel
Svoboda "Tři
oříšky pro Popelku"
("Three nuts for Cinderella"). The attached file popelka.mid consists of a flute, a grand piano, a
bassoon and strings. or ii)
Benny Andersson & Björn Ulvaeus "Waterloo",
using a MIDI file waterloo.mid, which consists of
choral singing (vocal A), a grand piano, a trumpet, an alto and guitars. b)
Three octaves of the Major music scale, consisting
of all the synthesized musical instruments, eventually followed by the sound
of percussion instruments. c)
An arbitrary realization of own audio synthesis
using the MATLAB environment (non-musical sounds are also accepted). The
arbitrary composition may consist of various sounds including synthesis of
fully synthetic instruments (e.g., Theremin, Hammond’s organ, sounds of FM
synthesizers, and others) and common sounds of everyday life. For the
composition enhancement, it is possible to use different effects such as
reverb, echo, chorus, stereo, and others. Competition Rules: a)
All the
audio synthesis algorithms have to be programmed in the MATLAB environment b)
For the composition use your own or freely
distributable MIDI files c)
Use a MIDI toolbox
(version 2.0) as a MIDI files type 0 to MATLAB interpreter • function main.m contains examples of the solo instrument and
polyphony synthesis • your own synthesis
should be included in the file synth.m, in which
the instrument functions may be written • the MIDI files used
for synthesis has to be included in the midi folder • output synthesis
files *.m4a have to be included in the result folder d)
Output audiosynthesis
files will be in the *. m4a format e)
The final version should be submitted via email synthchallenge@fel.cvut.cz
before 31.12.2019, 24:00: • all the source files
of the synthesis in the format *.m • used source MIDI
files *.mid • the output files of
the three syntheses *. m4a (mandatory composition, musical scale,
arbitrary composition) • a report containing
the description of used techniques of the synthesis and references f)
Output synthetic files (*.m4a) provided by
competitors will be published on the web page g)
The announcement of the competition results, will be
held Contact: synthchallenge@fel.cvut.cz Source
files for download: MIDI Toolbox 2.0, popelka.mid, waterloo.mid, Past
events (in Czech): SynthChall2016, SynthChall2017, SyntChall2018 |