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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

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

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

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

Music timbre transfer is a challenging task that involves modifying the timbral characteristics of an audio signal while preserving its melodic structure. In this paper, we propose a novel method based on dual diffusion bridges, trained…

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

With the development of diffusion models, text-guided image style transfer has demonstrated high-quality controllable synthesis results. However, the utilization of text for diverse music style transfer poses significant challenges,…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Sifei Li , Yuxin Zhang , Fan Tang , Chongyang Ma , Weiming dong , Changsheng Xu

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…

Breakthroughs in text-to-music generation models are transforming the creative landscape, equipping musicians with innovative tools for composition and experimentation like never before. However, controlling the generation process to…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Teysir Baoueb , Xiaoyu Bie , Xi Wang , Gaël Richard

Music editing primarily entails the modification of instrument tracks or remixing in the whole, which offers a novel reinterpretation of the original piece through a series of operations. These music processing methods hold immense…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Bing Han , Junyu Dai , Weituo Hao , Xinyan He , Dong Guo , Jitong Chen , Yuxuan Wang , Yanmin Qian , Xuchen Song

Music creation involves not only composing the different parts (e.g., melody, chords) of a musical work but also arranging/selecting the instruments to play the different parts. While the former has received increasing attention, the latter…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-03 Yun-Ning Hung , I-Tung Chiang , Yi-An Chen , Yi-Hsuan Yang

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

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

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

Generating multi-instrument music from symbolic music representations is an important task in Music Information Retrieval (MIR). A central but still largely unsolved problem in this context is musically and acoustically informed control in…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Ben Maman , Johannes Zeitler , Meinard Müller , Amit H. Bermano

We demonstrate how conditional generation from diffusion models can be used to tackle a variety of realistic tasks in the production of music in 44.1kHz stereo audio with sampling-time guidance. The scenarios we consider include…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Mark Levy , Bruno Di Giorgi , Floris Weers , Angelos Katharopoulos , Tom Nickson

Text-to-music generation has advanced rapidly, with modern autoregressive and diffusion-based models producing convincing music from natural-language prompts. However, much of this progress relies on large-scale training data and external…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Junyoung Koh

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

Timbre is a primary mode of expression in diverse musical contexts. However, prevalent audio-driven synthesis methods predominantly rely on pitch and loudness envelopes, effectively flattening timbral expression from the input. Our approach…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Jordie Shier , Charalampos Saitis , Andrew Robertson , Andrew McPherson

We propose Diffusion Inference-Time T-Optimization (DITTO), a general-purpose frame-work for controlling pre-trained text-to-music diffusion models at inference-time via optimizing initial noise latents. Our method can be used to optimize…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Zachary Novack , Julian McAuley , Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick , Nicholas J. Bryan
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