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End-to-end generation of musical audio using deep learning techniques has seen an explosion of activity recently. However, most models concentrate on generating fully mixed music in response to abstract conditioning information. In this…

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

Creating a good drum track to imitate a skilled performer in digital audio workstations (DAWs) can be a time-consuming process, especially for those unfamiliar with drums. In this work, we introduce PocketVAE, a groove generation system…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Kyungyun Lee , Wonil Kim , Juhan Nam

Current methods for creating drum loop audio in digital music production, such as using one-shot samples or resampling, often demand non-trivial efforts of creators. While recent generative models achieve high fidelity and adhere to text,…

Symbolic-control drum generation requires preserving explicit event timing and dynamics while synthesizing acoustically plausible waveforms. We present Sec2Drum-DAC, a conditional latent-diffusion model for symbolic-to-audio drum rendering.…

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…

The two main research threads in computer-based music generation are: the construction of autonomous music-making systems, and the design of computer-based environments to assist musicians. In the symbolic domain, the key problem of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-12 Giorgio Barnabò , Giovanni Trappolini , Lorenzo Lastilla , Cesare Campagnano , Angela Fan , Fabio Petroni , Fabrizio Silvestri

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

Music enhances video narratives and emotions, driving demand for automatic video-to-music (V2M) generation. However, existing V2M methods relying solely on visual features or supplementary textual inputs generate music in a black-box…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Junxian Wu , Weitao You , Heda Zuo , Dengming Zhang , Pei Chen , Lingyun Sun

We present MaskBeat, a transformer-based approach for loopable drum pattern generation. Rather than predicting drum hits sequentially, our method uses bidirectional attention with iterative refinement, allowing instruments to be generated…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Luca A. Lanzendörfer , Florian Grötschla , Karim Galal , Roger Wattenhofer

We introduce ACE-Step, a novel open-source foundation model for music generation that overcomes key limitations of existing approaches and achieves state-of-the-art performance through a holistic architectural design. Current methods face…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Junmin Gong , Sean Zhao , Sen Wang , Shengyuan Xu , Joe Guo

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

A music mashup combines audio elements from two or more songs to create a new work. To reduce the time and effort required to make them, researchers have developed algorithms that predict the compatibility of audio elements. Prior work has…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Jiawen Huang , Ju-Chiang Wang , Jordan B. L. Smith , Xuchen Song , Yuxuan Wang

Existing symbolic music generation methods usually utilize discriminator to improve the quality of generated music via global perception of music. However, considering the complexity of information in music, such as rhythm and melody, a…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Zhedong Zhang , Liang Li , Jiehua Zhang , Zhenghui Hu , Hongkui Wang , Chenggang Yan , Jian Yang , Yuankai Qi

In this work, we introduce a system for real-time generation of drum sounds. This system is composed of two parts: a generative model for drum sounds together with a Max4Live plugin providing intuitive controls on the generative process.…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Cyran Aouameur , Philippe Esling , Gaëtan Hadjeres

Singing is one of the most cherished forms of human entertainment. However, creating a beautiful song requires an accompaniment that complements the vocals and aligns well with the song instruments and genre. With advancements in deep…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Quoc-Huy Trinh , Minh-Van Nguyen , Trong-Hieu Nguyen Mau , Khoa Tran , Thanh Do

Recent advances in deep learning have expanded possibilities to generate music, but generating a customizable full piece of music with consistent long-term structure remains a challenge. This paper introduces MusicFrameworks, a hierarchical…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Shuqi Dai , Zeyu Jin , Celso Gomes , Roger B. Dannenberg

DeepDrummer is a drum loop generation tool that uses active learning to learn the preferences (or current artistic intentions) of a human user from a small number of interactions. The principal goal of this tool is to enable an efficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-28 Guillaume Alain , Maxime Chevalier-Boisvert , Frederic Osterrath , Remi Piche-Taillefer

Recent advances in deep neural networks have enabled algorithms to compose music that is comparable to music composed by humans. However, few algorithms allow the user to generate music with tunable parameters. The ability to tune…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Huanru Henry Mao , Taylor Shin , Garrison W. Cottrell

Automatically generating natural, diverse and rhythmic human dance movements driven by music is vital for virtual reality and film industries. However, generating dance that naturally follows music remains a challenge, as existing methods…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Congyi Fan , Jian Guan , Xuanjia Zhao , Dongli Xu , Youtian Lin , Tong Ye , Pengming Feng , Haiwei Pan