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We present the Inverse Drum Machine, a novel approach to Drum Source Separation that leverages an analysis-by-synthesis framework combined with deep learning. Unlike recent supervised methods that require isolated stem recordings for…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Bernardo Torres , Geoffroy Peeters , Gael Richard

Deep learning models define the state-of-the-art in Automatic Drum Transcription (ADT), yet their performance is contingent upon large-scale, paired audio-MIDI datasets, which are scarce. Existing workarounds that use synthetic data often…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Pierfrancesco Melucci , Paolo Merialdo , Taketo Akama

Timbre, the sound's unique "color", is fundamental to how we perceive and appreciate music. This review explores the multifaceted world of timbre perception and representation. It begins by tracing the word's origin, offering an intuitive…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Hong Zhang , Jie Lin , Shengxuan Chen

Automatic drum transcription is a critical tool in Music Information Retrieval for extracting and analyzing the rhythm of a music track, but it is limited by the size of the datasets available for training. A popular method used to increase…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Mickaël Zehren , Marco Alunno , Paolo Bientinesi

In this paper, we propose a differentiable WORLD synthesizer and demonstrate its use in end-to-end audio style transfer tasks such as (singing) voice conversion and the DDSP timbre transfer task. Accordingly, our baseline differentiable…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-09 Shahan Nercessian

The term "differentiable digital signal processing" describes a family of techniques in which loss function gradients are backpropagated through digital signal processors, facilitating their integration into neural networks. This article…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Ben Hayes , Jordie Shier , György Fazekas , Andrew McPherson , Charalampos Saitis

A class of random non-stationary signals termed timbre x dynamics is introduced and studied. These signals are obtained by non-linear transformations of sta-tionary random gaussian signals, in such a way that the transformation can be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-29 H Omer , B Torrésani

Voice timbre attribute detection (vTAD) is the task of determining the relative intensity of timbre attributes between speech utterances. Voice timbre is a crucial yet inherently complex component of speech perception. While deep neural…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-06 Aemon Yat Fei Chiu , Yujia Xiao , Qiuqiang Kong , Tan Lee

The study investigates hip-hop music producer Scott Storch's approach to tonality, where the song's key is transposed to fit the Roland TR-808 bass drum instead of tuning the drums to the song's key. This process, involving the adjustment…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Emmanuel Deruty

Electronic synthesizer sounds are controlled by parameter settings that yield complex timbral characteristics and ADSR envelopes, making synthesizer-style audio transfer particularly challenging. Recent approaches to timbre transfer often…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-02 Jeng-Yue Liu , Ting-Chao Hsu , Yen-Tung Yeh , Li Su , Yi-Hsuan Yang

Manual sound design with a synthesizer is inherently iterative: an artist compares the synthesized output to a mental target, adjusts parameters, and repeats until satisfied. Iterative sound-matching automates this workflow by continually…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Amir Salimi , Abram Hindle , Osmar R. Zaiane

While significant advancements have been made in music generation and differentiable sound synthesis within machine learning and computer audition, the simulation of instrument vibration guided by physical laws has been underexplored. To…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-01 Jin Woo Lee , Jaehyun Park , Min Jun Choi , Kyogu Lee

The aim of this work is to define a model based on deep learning that is able to identify different instrument timbres with as few parameters as possible. For this purpose, we have worked with classical orchestral instruments played with…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Carlos Hernandez-Olivan , Jose R. Beltran

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

In recent years, text-to-audio systems have achieved remarkable success, enabling the generation of complete audio segments directly from text descriptions. While these systems also facilitate music creation, the element of human creativity…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Weixuan Yuan , Qadeer Khan , Vladimir Golkov

Differentiable digital signal processing (DDSP) techniques, including methods for audio synthesis, have gained attention in recent years and lend themselves to interpretability in the parameter space. However, current differentiable…

We present Subtractive Training, a simple and novel method for synthesizing individual musical instrument stems given other instruments as context. This method pairs a dataset of complete music mixes with 1) a variant of the dataset lacking…

Video to sound generation aims to generate realistic and natural sound given a video input. However, previous video-to-sound generation methods can only generate a random or average timbre without any controls or specializations of the…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Chenye Cui , Yi Ren , Jinglin Liu , Rongjie Huang , Zhou Zhao

Tone Transfer is a novel deep-learning technique for interfacing a sound source with a synthesizer, transforming the timbre of audio excerpts while keeping their musical form content. Due to its good audio quality results and continuous…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Franco Caspe , Andrew McPherson , Mark Sandler

A data set of recorded single played tones of a concert grand piano is investigated using Machine Learning (ML) on psychoacoustic timbre features. The examined instrument has been recorded at two stages: firstly right after manufacture and…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2021-12-17 Niko Plath , Rolf Bader