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InstrumentGen: Generating Sample-Based Musical Instruments From Text

Audio and Speech Processing 2023-11-09 v1 Machine Learning Sound

Abstract

We introduce the text-to-instrument task, which aims at generating sample-based musical instruments based on textual prompts. Accordingly, we propose InstrumentGen, a model that extends a text-prompted generative audio framework to condition on instrument family, source type, pitch (across an 88-key spectrum), velocity, and a joint text/audio embedding. Furthermore, we present a differentiable loss function to evaluate the intra-instrument timbral consistency of sample-based instruments. Our results establish a foundational text-to-instrument baseline, extending research in the domain of automatic sample-based instrument generation.

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@article{arxiv.2311.04339,
  title  = {InstrumentGen: Generating Sample-Based Musical Instruments From Text},
  author = {Shahan Nercessian and Johannes Imort},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.04339},
  year   = {2023}
}
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