Silvet is a Vamp plugin for note transcription in polyphonic music.
http://code.soundsoftware.ac.uk/projects/silvet
** What does it do?
Silvet listens to audio recordings of music and tries to work out what
notes are being played.
To use it, you need a Vamp plugin host (such as Sonic Visualiser).
How to use the plugin will depend on the host you use, but in the case
of Sonic Visualiser, you should load an audio file and then run Silvet
Note Transcription from the Transform menu. This will add a note
layer to your session with the transcription in it, which you can
listen to or export as a MIDI file.
** How good is it?
Silvet performs well for some recordings, but the range of music that
works well is quite limited at this stage. Generally it works best
with piano or acoustic instruments in solo or small-ensemble music.
Silvet does not transcribe percussion and has a limited range of
instrument support. It does not technically support vocals, although
it will sometimes transcribe them anyway.
You can usually expect the output to be reasonably informative and to
bear some audible relationship to the actual notes, but you shouldn't
expect to get something that can be directly converted to a readable
score. For much rock/pop music in particular the results will be, at
best, recognisable.
To summarise: try it and see.
** Can it be used live?
In theory it can, because the plugin is causal: it emits notes as it
hears the audio. But it has to operate on long blocks of audio with a
latency of many seconds, so although it will work with non-seekable
streams, it isn't in practice responsive enough to use live.
** How does it work?
Silvet uses the method described in "A Shift-Invariant Latent Variable
Model for Automatic Music Transcription" by Emmanouil Benetos and
Simon Dixon (Computer Music Journal, 2012).
It uses probablistic latent-variable estimation to decompose a
Constant-Q time-frequency matrix into note activations using a set of
spectral templates learned from recordings of solo instruments.
For a formal evaluation, please refer to the 2012 edition of MIREX,
the Music Information Retrieval Evaluation Exchange, where the basic
method implemented in Silvet formed the BD1, BD2 and BD3 submissions
in the Multiple F0 Tracking task:
http://www.music-ir.org/mirex/wiki/2012:Multiple_Fundamental_Frequency_Esti…
Announcing a new C++ library and Vamp plugin implementing the Constant-Q
transform of a time-domain signal.
https://code.soundsoftware.ac.uk/projects/constant-q-cpp
The Constant-Q transform is a time-to-frequency-domain transform related
to the short-time Fourier transform, but with output bins spaced
logarithmically in frequency, rather than linearly. The output bins are
therefore linearly spaced in terms of musical pitch. The Constant-Q is
useful as a preliminary transform in various other methods such as note
transcription and key estimation techniques.
This library provides:
* Forward transform: time-domain to complex Constant-Q bins
* Forward spectrogram: time-domain to interpolated Constant-Q magnitude
spectrogram
* Inverse transform: complex Constant-Q bins to time domain
The Vamp plugin provides:
* Constant-Q magnitude spectrogram with high and low frequency extents
defined in Hz
* Constant-Q magnitude spectrogram with high and low frequency extents
defined as MIDI pitch values
* Pitch chromagram obtained by folding a Constant-Q spectrogram around
into a single-octave range
The code is provided with full source under a liberal licence, and
plugin binaries are provided for Windows, OS/X, and Linux.
The method is drawn from Christian Schörkhuber and Anssi Klapuri,
"Constant-Q transform toolbox for music processing", SMC 2010. See the
file CITATION for details. If you use this code in research work, please
cite this paper.
Hi everyone,
i'm happy to announce the final release of Hydrogen 0.9.6. I'm pretty
sure that most of the users are already working with a 0.9.6-beta
version, but here again is a small list of the most important changes in
0.9.6:
* new build system (cmake)
* add undo for song/pattern editor
* jack-session support
* jack-midi support
* several bug fixes
* tabbed interface
* several small changes to the GUI
* improve ExportSong add use of TimeLineBPM,
RubberbandBatch processor and different types of resample
interpolation
The release can be downloaded via github:
https://github.com/hydrogen-music/hydrogen/archive/0.9.6.tar.gz
At this time, this is a linux-only release. Installers for Windows / OS
X may follow in the future.
Big thanks to all those wonderful people who made this release happen
and who are keeping this project alive!
Best regards,
Sebastian
amsynth 1.5.0 is now available, with a host of improvements and new
features;
- new filter modes: notch and bypass
- new filter controls for key-tracking and velocity sensitivity
- OSC2 octave range increased
- ring modulation can now be dialled in (instead of on/off)
- LFO can now be routed to OSC1, OSC2, or both
- fixes an audible click when using fast filter attack times
- note and controller events are now rendered sample-accurate when run
as a plugin or JACK, fixing MIDI timing jitter
- DSSI & LV2 plug-in builds can now load any preset by right-clicking
the UI background
- bank & preset loading is now faster
Source code:
https://github.com/nixxcode/amsynth/releases/download/release-1.5.0/amsynth…
If you find any problems, please file a bug report @
http://code.google.com/p/amsynth/issues/list
Thanks to all who have helped by providing suggestions and feedback.
Nick