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We study timbre transfer as an inference-time editing problem for music audio. Starting from a strong pre-trained latent diffusion model, we introduce a lightweight procedure that requires no additional training: (i) a dimension-wise noise…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Ching Ho Lee , Javier Nistal , Stefan Lattner , Marco Pasini , George Fazekas

Music generation in the audio domain using artificial intelligence (AI) has witnessed steady progress in recent years. However for some instruments, particularly the guitar, controllable instrument synthesis remains limited in expressivity.…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Jackson Loth , Pedro Sarmento , Mark Sandler , Mathieu Barthet

We explore a novel way of conceptualising the task of polyphonic music transcription, using so-called invertible neural networks. Invertible models unify both discriminative and generative aspects in one function, sharing one set of…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Rainer Kelz , Gerhard Widmer

A flexible recommendation and retrieval system requires music similarity in terms of multiple partial elements of musical pieces to allow users to select the element they want to focus on. A method for music similarity learning using…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Yuka Hashizume , Li Li , Atsushi Miyashita , Tomoki Toda

In this work, we propose a permutation invariant language model, SymphonyNet, as a solution for symbolic symphony music generation. We propose a novel Multi-track Multi-instrument Repeatable (MMR) representation for symphonic music and…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Jiafeng Liu , Yuanliang Dong , Zehua Cheng , Xinran Zhang , Xiaobing Li , Feng Yu , Maosong Sun

Music is a mysterious language that conveys feeling and thoughts via different tones and timbre. For better understanding of timbre in music, we chose music data of 6 representative instruments, analysed their timbre features and classified…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Zishuo Zhao , Haoyun Wang

Polyphonic music generation is still a challenge direction due to its correct between generating melody and harmony. Most of the previous studies used RNN-based models. However, the RNN-based models are hard to establish the relationship…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-08 Jiuyang Zhou , Hong Zhu , Xingping Wang

We use a modified SampleRNN architecture to generate music in modern genres such as black metal and math rock. Unlike MIDI and symbolic models, SampleRNN generates raw audio in the time domain. This requirement becomes increasingly…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-11-19 Zack Zukowski , CJ Carr

This paper introduces a novel data-driven strategy for synthesizing gramophone noise audio textures. A diffusion probabilistic model is applied to generate highly realistic quasiperiodic noises. The proposed model is designed to generate…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-01 Eloi Moliner , Vesa Välimäki

Over the past several years, deep learning for sequence modeling has grown in popularity. To achieve this goal, LSTM network structures have proven to be very useful for making predictions for the next output in a series. For instance, a…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Michael Conner , Lucas Gral , Kevin Adams , David Hunger , Reagan Strelow , Alexander Neuwirth

A new musical instrument classification method using convolutional neural networks (CNNs) is presented in this paper. Unlike the traditional methods, we investigated a scheme for classifying musical instruments using the learned features…

Sound · Computer Science 2015-12-24 Taejin Park , Taejin Lee

Automatic singing evaluation independent of reference melody is a challenging task due to its subjective and multi-dimensional nature. As an essential attribute of singing voices, vocal timbre has a non-negligible effect and influence on…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-17 Xiaoheng Sun , Yuejie Gao , Hanyao Lin , Huaping Liu

Current methods for creating drum loop audio in digital music production, such as using one-shot samples or resampling, often demand non-trivial efforts of creators. While recent generative models achieve high fidelity and adhere to text,…

Singing voice synthesis has made remarkable progress in generating natural and high-quality voices. However, existing methods rarely provide precise control over vocal techniques such as intensity, mixed voice, falsetto, bubble, and breathy…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Wenxiang Guo , Yu Zhang , Changhao Pan , Rongjie Huang , Li Tang , Ruiqi Li , Zhiqing Hong , Yongqi Wang , Zhou Zhao

Sound synthesiser controls typically correspond to technical parameters of signal processing algorithms rather than intuitive sound descriptors that relate to human perception of sound. This makes it difficult to realise sound ideas in a…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Sebastian Löbbers , Mathieu Barthet , György Fazekas

We present a controllable neural audio synthesizer based on Gaussian Mixture Variational Autoencoders (GM-VAE), which can generate realistic piano performances in the audio domain that closely follows temporal conditions of two essential…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-14 Hao Hao Tan , Yin-Jyun Luo , Dorien Herremans

Modern speech synthesis uses neural vocoders to model raw waveform samples directly. This increased versatility has expanded the scope of vocoders from speech to other domains, such as music. We address another interesting domain of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-22 Rhythm Bhatia , Tomi H. Kinnunen

Brain-to-speech technology represents a fusion of interdisciplinary applications encompassing fields of artificial intelligence, brain-computer interfaces, and speech synthesis. Neural representation learning based intention decoding and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Seo-Hyun Lee , Young-Eun Lee , Soowon Kim , Byung-Kwan Ko , Jun-Young Kim , Seong-Whan Lee

Deep learning researches on the transformation problems for image and text have raised great attention. However, present methods for music feature transfer using neural networks are far from practical application. In this paper, we initiate…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Xutan Peng , Chen Li , Zhi Cai , Faqiang Shi , Yidan Liu , Jianxin Li

To apply neural sequence models such as the Transformers to music generation tasks, one has to represent a piece of music by a sequence of tokens drawn from a finite set of pre-defined vocabulary. Such a vocabulary usually involves tokens…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Wen-Yi Hsiao , Jen-Yu Liu , Yin-Cheng Yeh , Yi-Hsuan Yang