Voorbeelden van timbre

• A circle of constant radius should vary in timbre but remain constant in brightness and pitch.

• All the children in the study were successful to varying degrees in the discrimination of both kinds of timbre (environmental and musical instrument).

• The timbre will also vary over time if the magnitude response is not flat, since the harmonics of the signal will attenuate at different rates.

• To help users more easily distinguish among the sounds controlled by different players, we make small modifications to timbre and panning for each synthesis instrument.

• In the first case the composer seems to connect many of the electronic timbres with hypothetical acoustic instruments.

• Giving the performer control over the flow of time is crucial; control over dynamics and timbres is also valuable.

• There are dynamic profiles that are characteristic of certain timbres, namely sounds of the type attackresonance.

• Sometimes referred to simply as 'tone color', timbre is actually difficult to define.