Joplin: The Easy Winners (synthesized)

Scott Joplin (c. 1867-1917): The Easy Winners (1901)

This ragtime composition by Scott Joplin is one of his most popular. It was first published in 1901, and is one of four Joplin pieces that had been recorded as of 1940. This synthesized rendition along with the scrolling "piano-roll" visualization were generated by our Matlab synthesizer from a midi file. The timbre used for this piece was generated through phase modulation synthesis - that is by introducing time-variation to the phase parameter ϕ in the general sinusoid equation y = A*sin(ωt + ϕ). For example, ϕ can be given by another sinusoidal function, resulting in y = A*sin(ωt + sin(ωt)) and so on. This is a computationally efficient synthesis method, allowing harmonically rich waveforms to be generated with relatively few arithmetic and trigonometric operations.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• scott joplin
• ragtime
• rag
• piano
• synthesizer
• phase modulation
• scrolling
• music animation
• visualization
• matlab
• piano roll

[Dachion]

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[Xplayer007]

Not sure I understand the math behind the generation of the timbre, nor am I sure that I want to know :P

Whatever you did sounds good though ;)