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Electronics and Communications
Committee of FEE CTU in Prague, announce a student competition
SYNTH
CHALLENGE 2020 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)
Antonín
Dvořák "Symphony No.9 in E minor,
Op.95 (B.178) (From the New World)". The attached file dvorak.mid consists of a Piano, Flute, Violins (2),
Cello, and Clarinet or ii)
the song "Take
On Me" by the Norwegian
pop group A-ha, using a MIDI file a_ha.mid, which consists of Oboe, Flute, Clarinet,
Violin, Guitar, Harp, Bass, and Piano. b)
Three octaves of the Major music scale, consisting
of all the synthesized musical 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 2.1) 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 31.12.2021, 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 2.1, dvorak.mid,
a_ha.mid Past
events: SynthChall2016, SynthChall2017, SyntChall2018,
SynthChall2019 Past
results: Výsledky2016,
Výsledky2017,
Výsledky2018,
Results2019 |
