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Re:Show HN: Cloning a musical instrument from 16 seconds of ... by rhizome on Friday February 25, 2022 @10:00PM (#30474912)
>Say you like a certain sound in a song and would like to use it as a starting point for your own sound patch.

Isn't that resynthesis? I mean, this could certainly be an addition to the vocabulary of resynthesis techniques, but is there something more categorical about it?

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Re:Show HN: Cloning a musical instrument from 16 seconds of ... by pizza on Friday February 25, 2022 @10:18PM (#30474985)
Differentiable resynthesis. You input a desired goal, it tries to achieve it, through (essentially) trial and error. Then the artist can focus on imagining goals, rather than fiddling with knobs :)
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