hello list, we're looking for volunteers who would be interested in
reading a paper that has been accepted for presentation as a full
Technical Paper at the 12th Brazilian Symposium on Computer Music
(http://compmus.ime.usp.br/sbcm/2009/english/index.html). 

the title of the paper is "Wind instruments synthesis toolbox for
generation of music audio signals with labeled partials" and it can be
downloaded from this link:

http://iie.fing.edu.uy/~rocamora/downloads/sbcm2009.pdf

the abstract can be found below.

all comments and criticisms are welcome, of course, but we would
specially appreciate comments from native speakers of English that
would help us improve the grammar. we did the translation ourselves
and, although we're aware that the redaction is awkward, we couldn't
come up with anything better...

thanks for you attention,

lj

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Wind instruments synthesis toolbox for generation of
     music audio signals with labeled partials

Abstract. In this work a methodology is proposed and a set of software
tools is released for the automatic generation of synthesized audio
files accompanied with labels that describe the tem- poral evolution of
the amplitude and frequency of each one of the partials present. The
approach is to synthesize wind instruments sounds using a simple yet
effective additive synthesis model based on [Horner and Ayers, 1998].
Some improvements over the original model are implemented and others
suggested for future work. In the context of automatic extraction of
musical content from audio, this data can be used as ground truth
labels for the development and evaluation of algorithms intended for
example to estimate partials parameters or track its evolution. This
seems an interesting contribution, since manual annotation is a very
time consuming task in this situation and a resource of this kind is
not available for researchers at present.


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