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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

Timbre transfer techniques aim at converting the sound of a musical piece generated by one instrument into the same one as if it was played by another instrument, while maintaining as much as possible the content in terms of musical…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-31 Luca Comanducci , Fabio Antonacci , Augusto Sarti

Timbre transfer aims to modify the timbral identity of a musical recording while preserving the original melody and rhythm. While single-instrument timbre transfer has made substantial progress, existing approaches to multi-instrument…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Leduo Chen , Junchuan Zhao , Shengchen Li

As diffusion-based deep generative models gain prevalence, researchers are actively investigating their potential applications across various domains, including music synthesis and style alteration. Within this work, we are interested in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-25 Teysir Baoueb , Xiaoyu Bie , Hicham Janati , Gael Richard

Audio domain transfer is the process of modifying audio signals to match characteristics of a different domain, while retaining the original content. This paper investigates the potential of Gaussian Flow Bridges, an emerging approach in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-31 Eloi Moliner , Sebastian Braun , Hannes Gamper

Diffusion models demonstrate remarkable capabilities in capturing complex data distributions and have achieved compelling results in many generative tasks. While they have recently been extended to dense prediction tasks such as depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Haorui Ji , Taojun Lin , Hongdong Li

In this paper, we learn disentangled representations of timbre and pitch for musical instrument sounds. We adapt a framework based on variational autoencoders with Gaussian mixture latent distributions. Specifically, we use two separate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Yin-Jyun Luo , Kat Agres , Dorien Herremans

Deep generative models are now able to synthesize high-quality audio signals, shifting the critical aspect in their development from audio quality to control capabilities. Although text-to-music generation is getting largely adopted by the…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Nils Demerlé , Philippe Esling , Guillaume Doras , David Genova

In this work, we address the problem of musical timbre transfer, where the goal is to manipulate the timbre of a sound sample from one instrument to match another instrument while preserving other musical content, such as pitch, rhythm, and…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Sicong Huang , Qiyang Li , Cem Anil , Xuchan Bao , Sageev Oore , Roger B. Grosse

We propose a timbre conversion model based on the Diffusion architecture de-signed to precisely translate music played by various instruments into piano ver-sions. The model employs a Pitch Encoder and Loudness Encoder to extract pitch and…

Recent advancements in diffusion-based imitation learning, which show impressive performance in modeling multimodal distributions and training stability, have led to substantial progress in various robot learning tasks. In visual…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Hao Ren , Yiming Zeng , Zetong Bi , Zhaoliang Wan , Junlong Huang , Hui Cheng

This research project investigates the application of deep learning to timbre transfer, where the timbre of a source audio can be converted to the timbre of a target audio with minimal loss in quality. The adopted approach combines…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Russell Sammut Bonnici , Charalampos Saitis , Martin Benning

We explore unsupervised speech enhancement using diffusion models as expressive generative priors for clean speech. Existing approaches guide the reverse diffusion process using noisy speech through an approximate, noise-perturbed…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Mostafa Sadeghi , Jean-Eudes Ayilo , Romain Serizel , Xavier Alameda-Pineda

Building upon Diff-A-Riff, a latent diffusion model for musical instrument accompaniment generation, we present a series of improvements targeting quality, diversity, inference speed, and text-driven control. First, we upgrade the…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Javier Nistal , Marco Pasini , Stefan Lattner

We provide a general framework for learning diffusion bridges that transport prior to target distributions. It includes existing diffusion models for generative modeling, but also underdamped versions with degenerate diffusion matrices,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Denis Blessing , Julius Berner , Lorenz Richter , Gerhard Neumann

Style transfer of polyphonic music recordings is a challenging task when considering the modeling of diverse, imaginative, and reasonable music pieces in the style different from their original one. To achieve this, learning stable…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-11-30 Chien-Yu Lu , Min-Xin Xue , Chia-Che Chang , Che-Rung Lee , Li Su

In text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis, diffusion models have achieved promising generation quality. However, because of the pre-defined data-to-noise diffusion process, their prior distribution is restricted to a noisy representation, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Zehua Chen , Guande He , Kaiwen Zheng , Xu Tan , Jun Zhu

Generative models have been successfully applied to image style transfer and domain translation. However, there is still a wide gap in the quality of results when learning such tasks on musical audio. Furthermore, most translation models…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Adrien Bitton , Philippe Esling , Axel Chemla-Romeu-Santos

Timbre and pitch are the two main perceptual properties of musical sounds. Depending on the target applications, we sometimes prefer to focus on one of them, while reducing the effect of the other. Researchers have managed to hand-craft…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-11-09 Yun-Ning Hung , Yi-An Chen , Yi-Hsuan Yang

We propose a unified model for three inter-related tasks: 1) to \textit{separate} individual sound sources from a mixed music audio, 2) to \textit{transcribe} each sound source to MIDI notes, and 3) to\textit{ synthesize} new pieces based…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Liwei Lin , Qiuqiang Kong , Junyan Jiang , Gus Xia
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