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OBRAMUS: A System for Object-Based Retouch of Amateur Music

Authors: Janer, Jordi; Gorlow, Stanislaw; Arimoto, Keita

AES Convention 137 · Paper 9210 · October 2014

Abstract

In the more recent past, the area of semantic audio has become an object of special attention due to the increase in attractiveness of signal representations that allow manipulations of audio on a symbolic level. The semantics usually refer to audio objects, such as instruments, or musical entities, such as chords or notes. In this paper we present a system for making minor corrections to amateur piano recordings based on a nonnegative matrix factorization. Acting as middleman between the signal and the user, the system enables a simple form of musical recomposition by altering pitch, timbre, onset, and offset of distinct notes. The workflow is iterative, that is the result improves stepwise through user intervention.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 137
AES Convention
137
Paper number
9210
Publication date
October 6, 2014
Session subject
Signal Processing
Affiliation
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain; Gorlow Brainworks, Bordeaux, France; Yamaha Corporation, Iwata, Shizuoka, Japan (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Convention Paper