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Sound2Synth: Interpreting Sound via FM Synthesizer Parameters Estimation

arXiv 2205.03043 ↗First posted 6 May 2022cs.SD cs.AI cs.LGcited by 7

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Abstract (arXiv)

Synthesizer is a type of electronic musical instrument that is now widely used in modern music production and sound design. Each parameters configuration of a synthesizer produces a unique timbre and can be viewed as a unique instrument. The problem of estimating a set of parameters configuration that best restore a sound timbre is an important yet complicated problem, i.e.: the synthesizer parameters estimation problem. We proposed a multi-modal deep-learning-based pipeline Sound2Synth, together with a network structure Prime-Dilated Convolution (PDC) specially designed to solve this problem. Our method achieved not only SOTA but also the first real-world applicable results on Dexed synthesizer, a popular FM synthesizer.

Key facts. Cited by 7 papers in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). Builds on 6 of its 27 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 6 May 2022.

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  5. 2019Universal audio synthesizer control with normalizing flowscited by 16
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Citing papers per year: 2022: 2; 2023: 1; 2024: 0; 2025: 2; 2026: 2.

7 papers.

  1. 2022DDX7: Differentiable FM Synthesis of Musical Instrument Soundscited by 13
  2. 2022Synthesizer Preset Interpolation using Transformer Auto-Encoderscited by 3
  3. 2025Modulation Discovery with Differentiable Digital Signal Processingcited by 1
  4. 2023NAS-FM: Neural Architecture Search for Tunable and Interpretable Sound Synthesis based on Frequency Modulationcited by 0
  5. 2025Neural Proxies for Sound Synthesizers: Learning Perceptually Informed Preset Representationscited by 0
  6. 2026DDSynth-RL: Audio Synthesizer Inversion via Discrete Diffusion with Reinforcement Learningcited by 0
  7. 2026Off-manifold robustness in synthesizer inversion with joint distribution flow matchingcited by 0