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WaveRoll is an interactive JavaScript library that enables comparative visualization and synchronized playback of multiple MIDI piano rolls on a browser. It addresses a specific evaluation need in Automatic Music Transcription (AMT),…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Hannah Park , Dasaem Jeong

Music Information Retrieval (MIR) is a collaborative scientific study that help to build innovative information research themes, novel frameworks, and developing connected delivery mechanisms in addition to making the world's massive…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-09-09 Shah Riya Chiragkumar

Most existing neural network models for music generation use recurrent neural networks. However, the recent WaveNet model proposed by DeepMind shows that convolutional neural networks (CNNs) can also generate realistic musical waveforms in…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-07-19 Li-Chia Yang , Szu-Yu Chou , Yi-Hsuan Yang

In this paper, we introduce Story2MIDI, a sequence-to-sequence Transformer-based model for generating emotion-aligned music from a given piece of text. To develop this model, we construct the Story2MIDI dataset by merging existing datasets…

Symbolic music analysis tasks are often performed by models originally developed for Natural Language Processing, such as Transformers. Such models require the input data to be represented as sequences, which is achieved through a process…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Dinh-Viet-Toan Le , Louis Bigo , Mikaela Keller

Melody extraction is a vital music information retrieval task among music researchers for its potential applications in education pedagogy and the music industry. Melody extraction is a notoriously challenging task due to the presence of…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-03 Gurunath Reddy M , K. Sreenivasa Rao , Partha Pratim Das

We present a method for the generation of Midi files of piano music. The method models the right and left hands using two networks, where the left hand is conditioned on the right hand. This way, the melody is generated before the harmony.…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Or Goren , Eliya Nachmani , Lior Wolf

An ideal music synthesizer should be both interactive and expressive, generating high-fidelity audio in realtime for arbitrary combinations of instruments and notes. Recent neural synthesizers have exhibited a tradeoff between…

Generating expressive audio performances from music scores requires models to capture both instrument acoustics and human interpretation. Traditional music performance synthesis pipelines follow a two-stage approach, first generating…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Jingjing Tang , Xin Wang , Zhe Zhang , Junichi Yamagishi , Geraint Wiggins , George Fazekas

Computational analysis of performed music is a key component of music information research, as performance shapes much of the music we hear. Music performance analysis studies the acoustic variations introduced by performers and how these…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Corentin Guichaoua , Daniel Bedoya , Elaine Chew

The term melodic template or skeleton refers to a basic melody which is subject to variation during a music performance. In many oral music tradition, these templates are implicitly passed throughout generations without ever being…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Sergey Bereg , José-Miguel Díaz-Báñez , Nadine Kroher , Inmaculada Ventura

The Python package pylimer-tools is a comprehensive toolkit for computational studies of polymer networks, particularly bead-spring networks. The package provides functionality to generate polymer networks using Monte Carlo (MC) procedures…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-08-18 Tim Bernhard , Fabian Schwarz , Andrei A. Gusev

Music is a form of expression that often requires interaction between players. If one wishes to interact in such a musical way with a computer, it is necessary for the machine to be able to interpret the input given by the human to find its…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-09-01 Filippo Carnovalini , Antonio Rodà

Soundata is a Python library for loading and working with audio datasets in a standardized way, removing the need for writing custom loaders in every project, and improving reproducibility by providing tools to validate data against a…

This paper describes an open-source Python framework for handling datasets for music processing tasks, built with the aim of improving the reproducibility of research projects in music computing and assessing the generalization abilities of…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Federico Simonetta , Stavros Ntalampiras , Federico Avanzini

Many of the music generation systems based on neural networks are fully autonomous and do not offer control over the generation process. In this research, we present a controllable music generation system in terms of tonal tension. We…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-10-15 Rui Guo , Ivor Simpson , Thor Magnusson , Chris Kiefer , Dorien Herremans

We present MIDI-LLM, an LLM for generating multitrack MIDI music from free-form text prompts. Our approach expands a text LLM's vocabulary to include MIDI tokens, and uses a two-stage training recipe to endow text-to-MIDI abilities. By…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Shih-Lun Wu , Yoon Kim , Cheng-Zhi Anna Huang

In this paper, we present a neural network approach for synchronizing audio recordings of human piano performances with their corresponding loosely aligned MIDI files. The task is addressed using a Convolutional Recurrent Neural Network…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Sebastian Murgul , Moritz Reiser , Michael Heizmann , Christoph Seibert

This article presents a benchmark study of symbolic piano music classification using the masked language modelling approach of the Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT). Specifically, we consider two types of MIDI…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Yi-Hui Chou , I-Chun Chen , Chin-Jui Chang , Joann Ching , Yi-Hsuan Yang

Simphony is an open-source software package designed for the topological analysis of lattice vibrations based on Wannier tight-binding models. Its primary function is to classify the topology of novel materials by computing bulk and slab…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-25 Francesc Ballester , Ion Errea , Maia G. Vergniory