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Automatic Music Production System Employing Probabilistic Expert Systems

Authors: Bocko, Gregory; Bocko, Mark F.; Headlam, Dave; Lundberg, Justin; Ren, Gang

AES Convention 129 · Paper 8255 · November 2010

Abstract

An automatic music production system based on expert audio engineering knowledge is proposed. An expert system based on a probabilistic graphical model is employed to embed professional audio engineering knowledge and infer automatic production decisions based on musical information extracted from audio files. The production pattern, which is represented as probabilistic graphical model, can be ‘learned’ from the operation data of a human audio engineer or manually constructed from domain knowledge. The authors also discuss the real-time implementation of the proposed automatic production system for live mixing application scenarios. Musical event alignment and prediction algorithms are introduced to improve the time synchronization performance of our production model. The authors conclude with performance evaluations and a brief summary.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 129
AES Convention
129
Paper number
8255
Publication date
November 6, 2010
Session subject
Signal Analysis and Synthesis
Affiliation
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA; Dept. of Music Theory, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Convention Paper