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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…

Modulations are a critical part of sound design and music production, enabling the creation of complex and evolving audio. Modern synthesizers provide envelopes, low frequency oscillators (LFOs), and more parameter automation tools that…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Christopher Mitcheltree , Hao Hao Tan , Joshua D. Reiss

Recently, there has been great interest in the field of audio style transfer, where a stylized audio is generated by imposing the style of a reference audio on the content of a target audio. We improve on the current approaches which use…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Dhruv Ramani , Samarjit Karmakar , Anirban Panda , Asad Ahmed , Pratham Tangri

Neural audio autoencoders create compact latent representations that preserve perceptually important information, serving as the foundation for both modern audio compression systems and generation approaches like next-token prediction and…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Dimitrios Bralios , Paris Smaragdis , Jonah Casebeer

Since its conception, digital synthesis has significantly influenced the advancement of music, leading to new genres and production styles. Through existing synthesis techniques, one can recreate naturally occurring sounds as well as…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Ashwin Pillay

This paper proposes a novel way of doing audio synthesis at the waveform level using Transformer architectures. We propose a deep neural network for generating waveforms, similar to wavenet. This is fully probabilistic, auto-regressive, and…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-07-09 Prateek Verma , Chris Chafe

A recurrent Neural Network (RNN) is trained to predict sound samples based on audio input augmented by control parameter information for pitch, volume, and instrument identification. During the generative phase following training, audio…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-03-27 Lonce Wyse , Muhammad Huzaifah

This paper describes a preliminary approach to algorithmically reproduce the archetypical structure adopted by humans to classify sounds. In particular, we propose an approach to predict the human perceived chaos/order level in a sound and…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-03-11 Eric Guizzo , Alberto Novello

Abstract This project presents a system of neural networks to translate between images and melodies. Autoencoders compress the information in samples to abstract representation. A translation network learns a set of correspondences between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Karl Wienand , Wolfgang M. Heckl

In this paper we explore techniques for generating new music using a Variational Autoencoder (VAE) neural network that was trained on a corpus of specific style. Instead of randomly sampling the latent states of the network to produce free…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-06-24 Shlomo Dubnov

Segmenting audio into homogeneous sections such as music and speech helps us understand the content of audio. It is useful as a pre-processing step to index, store, and modify audio recordings, radio broadcasts and TV programmes. Deep…

Neural audio codecs and autoencoders have emerged as versatile models for audio compression, transmission, feature-extraction, and latent-space generation. However, a key limitation is that most are trained to maximize reconstruction…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Dimitrios Bralios , Jonah Casebeer , Paris Smaragdis

This study proposes a system designed to enumerate the process of collaborative composition among humans, using automatic music composition technology. By integrating multiple Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) models, the system provides an…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-03-07 So Hirawata , Noriko Otani

We present in this paper PerformacnceNet, a neural network model we proposed recently to achieve score-to-audio music generation. The model learns to convert a music piece from the symbolic domain to the audio domain, assigning…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-05-29 Yu-Hua Chen , Bryan Wang , Yi-Hsuan Yang

The generation of musically coherent and aesthetically pleasing harmony remains a significant challenge in the field of algorithmic composition. This paper introduces an innovative Agentic AI-enabled Higher Harmony Music Generator, a…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Nia D'Souza Ganapathy , Arul Selvamani Shaja

The ubiquity of sound synthesizers has reshaped music production and even entirely defined new music genres. However, the increasing complexity and number of parameters in modern synthesizers make them harder to master. Hence, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-03 Philippe Esling , Naotake Masuda , Adrien Bardet , Romeo Despres , Axel Chemla--Romeu-Santos

Loops, seamlessly repeatable musical segments, are a cornerstone of modern music production. Contemporary artists often mix and match various sampled or pre-recorded loops based on musical criteria such as rhythm, harmony and timbral…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Pritish Chandna , António Ramires , Xavier Serra , Emilia Gómez

We introduce a novel technique for creative audio resynthesis that operates by reworking the concept of granular synthesis at the latent vector level. Our approach creates a "granular codebook" by encoding a source audio corpus into latent…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Nao Tokui , Tom Baker

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNS) are now widely used on sequence generation tasks due to their ability to learn long-range dependencies and to generate sequences of arbitrary length. However, their left-to-right generation procedure only…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-09-20 Gaëtan Hadjeres , Frank Nielsen

We propose a semi-supervised singing synthesizer, which is able to learn new voices from audio data only, without any annotations such as phonetic segmentation. Our system is an encoder-decoder model with two encoders, linguistic and…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-11-06 Jordi Bonada , Merlijn Blaauw