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Synthesis: what the evidence base looks like

11 publications, 0 of them trials and 0 syntheses. This page describes the shape of that literature rather than summarising its conclusions.

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What the evidence on synthesis is made of Of 11 publications on this topic, the breakdown by study type: 11 other. 11other (11)
11 publications, by study type. Volume is not strength — the same count can be a settled question or a pile of commentary, and which one it is depends almost entirely on this breakdown. Harvested from PubMed and Crossref; publication type as recorded by the source.

What this literature is made of

A reasonable volume of literature, but weighted towards reviews and observational work rather than trials. That is enough to describe a phenomenon and rarely enough to establish that an intervention works.

The distinction that matters most is between synthesis and primary research. A meta-analysis pools trials and is the closest thing to a settled answer a field produces. A narrative review is one group's reading of the same material and can be selective without being dishonest. Counting them together, which most citation counts do, obscures exactly the thing you want to know.

When the synthesis literature was published Publication years for the 11 papers on this topic, grouped into bands from before 2015 through to 2023 onwards. 2023 onwards4 papers2020-20223 papersBefore 20153 papers2015-20191 papers
Still active. The most recent paper here is from 2024, so this is a field where an answer written today may not hold for long. Publication years as recorded by PubMed and Crossref.

How this page is built

Everything above is computed from the citations this site harvested from PubMed and Crossref, not written by hand. When the weekly harvest finds a new paper on this topic, these counts change and the characterisation changes with them. That is the point: a hand-written claim about how strong an evidence base is starts decaying the day it is written.

Publication type is taken as the source records it. That is imperfect — journals label inconsistently, and a paper indexed as a "review" may be a systematic one — so treat the bands as approximate. They are accurate enough to distinguish a trial literature from a commentary literature, which is the distinction that matters.

The strongest work on this topic

Ordered by study design first, then recency. The full set is listed in the references below.

  1. Signal Processing for Image Morphing in Digital Image Synthesis — Dr. Elena Martinez, 2024, journal article
  2. A simplified and controllable model of mode coupling for addressing nonlinear phenomena in sound synthesis processes — Poirot S, Bilbao S, Kronland-Martinet R, 2024, journal article
  3. Exploring Sound Generation and Processing in Mechatronic Systems through Digital Signal Processing: A MATLAB-Based Investigation — Wahhab M, 2023, journal article
  4. Sound event triage: detecting sound events considering priority of classes — Tonami N, Imoto K, 2023, journal article
  5. Optical Digital Theremin with Audio Synthesis and Graphic Interface — Ramos dos Santos M, Coca Salazar A, 2021, journal article
  6. Digital audio signal watermarking using minimum‐energy scaling optimisation in the wavelet domain — Hsu C, Tu S, Yang C et al., 2020, journal article
  7. Processing of volcano infrasound using film sound audio post-production techniques to improve signal detection via array processing — Williams R, Perttu A, Taisne B, 2020, journal article
  8. Sound effects without side effects—Suppression of artifacts in audio signal processing — Case A, 2018, journal article
  9. Analysis by synthesis spatial audio coding — Elfitri I, Shi X, Kondoz A, 2014, journal article
  10. Applications and implications of digital audio databases for the field of ethnomusicology: A discussion of the CNRS — Musée de l’Homme sound archives — Khoury S, Simonnot J, 2014, journal article
How much research is there on synthesis?
11 publications are indexed here, of which 0 are trials and 0 are syntheses.
Does more research mean a stronger conclusion?
No. Composition matters more than volume — five randomised trials support a claim far better than fifty commentaries, and citation counts do not distinguish between them.
How current is this?
The most recent paper indexed here is from 2024. The set is refreshed weekly from PubMed and Crossref.
Why does this page not tell me the answer?
Because summarising a literature into a conclusion requires reading it, and doing that automatically is how confident nonsense gets published. This page tells you how much weight a conclusion could bear; the articles on this site do the interpreting.

References

Every citation below links to the original peer-reviewed record on PubMed or via DOI. Nothing here is a substitute for medical advice.

  1. A simplified and controllable model of mode coupling for addressing nonlinear phenomena in sound synthesis processes Poirot S, Bilbao S, Kronland-Martinet R · EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing · 2024 · Journal article DOI
  2. Signal Processing for Image Morphing in Digital Image Synthesis Dr. Elena Martinez · American Journal of Signal and Image Processing · 2024 · Journal article DOI
  3. Sound event triage: detecting sound events considering priority of classes Tonami N, Imoto K · EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing · 2023 · Journal article DOI
  4. Exploring Sound Generation and Processing in Mechatronic Systems through Digital Signal Processing: A MATLAB-Based Investigation Wahhab M · Engineering and Technology Journal · 2023 · Journal article DOI
  5. Optical Digital Theremin with Audio Synthesis and Graphic Interface Ramos dos Santos M, Coca Salazar A · International Journal of Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing · 2021 · Journal article DOI
  6. Digital audio signal watermarking using minimum‐energy scaling optimisation in the wavelet domain Hsu C, Tu S, Yang C, et al. · IET Signal Processing · 2020 · Journal article DOI
  7. Processing of volcano infrasound using film sound audio post-production techniques to improve signal detection via array processing Williams R, Perttu A, Taisne B · Geoscience Letters · 2020 · Journal article DOI
  8. Sound effects without side effects—Suppression of artifacts in audio signal processing Case A · The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2018 · Journal article DOI
  9. Analysis by synthesis spatial audio coding Elfitri I, Shi X, Kondoz A · IET Signal Processing · 2014 · Journal article DOI
  10. Digital removal of pulse‐width‐modulation‐induced distortion in class‐D audio amplifiers Aase S · IET Signal Processing · 2014 · Journal article DOI
  11. Applications and implications of digital audio databases for the field of ethnomusicology: A discussion of the CNRS — Musée de l’Homme sound archives Khoury S, Simonnot J · First Monday · 2014 · Journal article DOI