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Music classification between music made by AI or human composers can be done by deep learning networks. We first transformed music samples in midi format to natural language sequences, then classified these samples by mLSTM (multiplicative…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Yiting Xia , Yiwei Jiang , Tao Ye

The Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI), introduced in 1983, revolutionized music production by allowing computers and instruments to communicate efficiently. MIDI files encode musical instructions compactly, facilitating convenient…

In the Western music tradition, chords are the main constituent components of harmony, a fundamental dimension of music. Despite its relevance for several Music Information Retrieval (MIR) tasks, chord-annotated audio datasets are limited…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Andrea Poltronieri , Valentina Presutti , Martín Rocamora

In this paper, we introduce the MIDI Degradation Toolkit (MDTK), containing functions which take as input a musical excerpt (a set of notes with pitch, onset time, and duration), and return a "degraded" version of that excerpt with some…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-10-02 Andrew McLeod , James Owers , Kazuyoshi Yoshii

Goniometers, also known as Phase Scopes or Vector Scopes, are audio metering tools that help music producers and mixing engineers monitor spatial aspects of a music mix, such as the stereo panorama, the width of single sources, the amount…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Tim Ziemer

A short overview demystifying the midi audio format is presented. The goal is to explain the file structure and how the instructions are used to produce a music signal, both in the case of monophonic signals as for polyphonic signals.

Sound · Computer Science 2018-01-24 H. M. de Oliveira , R. C. de Oliveira

Numerical stability is a crucial requirement of reliable scientific computing. However, despite the pervasiveness of Python in data science, analyzing large Python programs remains challenging due to the lack of scalable numerical analysis…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Yohan Chatelain , Nigel Yong , Gregory Kiar , Tristan Glatard

In this paper, we present MusPy, an open source Python library for symbolic music generation. MusPy provides easy-to-use tools for essential components in a music generation system, including dataset management, data I/O, data preprocessing…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-08-06 Hao-Wen Dong , Ke Chen , Julian McAuley , Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick

mmid (Multi-Modal Integration and Downstream analyses for healthcare analytics) is a Python package that offers multi-modal fusion and imputation, classification, time-to-event prediction and clustering functionalities under a single…

Recent advances in audio-text large language models (LLMs) have opened new possibilities for music understanding and generation. However, existing benchmarks are limited in scope, often relying on simplified tasks or multi-choice…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-01 Yinghao Ma , Siyou Li , Juntao Yu , Emmanouil Benetos , Akira Maezawa

In this paper, we introduce a simple method that can separate arbitrary musical instruments from an audio mixture. Given an unaligned MIDI transcription for a target instrument from an input mixture, we synthesize new mixtures from the midi…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-09-30 Ethan Manilow , Bryan Pardo

This paper presents the specifications of match: a file format that extends a MIDI human performance with note-, beat-, and downbeat-level alignments to a corresponding musical score. This enables advanced analyses of the performance that…

In this paper, we introduce Foley Music, a system that can synthesize plausible music for a silent video clip about people playing musical instruments. We first identify two key intermediate representations for a successful video to music…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Chuang Gan , Deng Huang , Peihao Chen , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Antonio Torralba

Expressive variations of tempo and dynamics are an important aspect of music performances, involving a variety of underlying factors. Previous work has showed a relation between such expressive variations (in particular expressive tempo)…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-07-04 Carlos Cancino-Chacón , Maarten Grachten

In Electronic Dance Music (EDM), many artists use DJing techniques in order to perform their own productions live. As a consequence, they do not have access during the performance to the internal structure of their tracks, and specifically…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Alice Rixte

Predicting the difficulty of playing a musical score is essential for structuring and exploring score collections. Despite its importance for music education, the automatic difficulty classification of piano scores is not yet solved, mainly…

We introduce an extensive new dataset of MIDI files, created by transcribing audio recordings of piano performances into their constituent notes. The data pipeline we use is multi-stage, employing a language model to autonomously crawl and…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Louis Bradshaw , Simon Colton

Definitive embeddings remain a fundamental challenge of computational musicology for symbolic music in deep learning today. Analogous to natural language, music can be modeled as a sequence of tokens. This motivates the majority of existing…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Hongru Liang , Wenqiang Lei , Paul Yaozhu Chan , Zhenglu Yang , Maosong Sun , Tat-Seng Chua

SoundSignature is a music application that integrates a custom OpenAI Assistant to analyze users' favorite songs. The system incorporates state-of-the-art Music Information Retrieval (MIR) Python packages to combine extracted…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Brandon James Carone , Pablo Ripollés

Although a variety of transformers have been proposed for symbolic music generation in recent years, there is still little comprehensive study on how specific design choices affect the quality of the generated music. In this work, we…