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Neural models

Using the delayed coordinate vectors of a music signal and a fixed control sequence we train the network to give a vector valued prediction of the following time samples. To ensure a discriminating control input, we chose a control sequence linear increasing with the sample time. After training we initialize the network input with the first input vector of the time series and iterate the network function shifting the network input and using the latest output unit to complete the new input. The control input sequence may be copied from the training phase to resynthesize the training signal or may be varied to get a variation of the musical sound.

The question that arises in this context is the question of stability. As we will see in the example, the neural models are stable for selected parameters and . Due to the embedding of the attractor, however, this stability, which depends on its neighborhood, is not guaranteed and it may be the case for other time series, that there are no parameters for stable models. A method for controlling the stability of the models is subject of further research.



Axel Roebel
Mon Jul 31 15:37:17 MET DST 1995