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Music
Processing
Roger B. Dannenber
Overview
 Music Representation
 MIDI and Synthesizers
 Synthesis Techniques
 Music Understanding
Music Representation
 Acoustic Level: sound, samples,
spectra
 Performance Information: timing,
parameters
 Notation Information: parts, clefs,
stem direction
 Compositional Structure: notes,
chords, symbolic structure
Performance Information
 MIDI bandwidth is 3KB/s, or
180KB/min
 More typical: 3KB/minute,
180KB/hour
• Complete Scott Joplin: 1MB
• Output of 50 Composers (400 days of
music):
500MB (1 CD-ROM)
 Synthesis of acoustic instruments is
a problem
Music Notation
 Compact, symbolic representation
 Does not capture performance
information
 Expressive “performance” not fully
automated
Compositional Structure
 Example: Nyquist (free software!)
(defun melody1 ()
(seq (stretch q (note a4) (note b4)
(note cs5) (note d5))))
(defun counterpoint () …)
(defun composition ()
(sim (melody1) (counterpoint)))
(play (transpose 4 (composition)))
Overview
 Music Representation
 MIDI and Synthesizers
 Synthesis Techniques
 Music Understanding
MIDI: Musical Instrument Digital
Interface
 Musical Performance Information:
• Piano Keyboard key presses and
releases
• “instrument” selection (by number)
• sustain pedal, switches
• continuous controls: volume pedal,
pitch bend, aftertouch
• very compact
(human gesture < 100Hz bandwidth)
MIDI (cont’d)
 Point-to-point connections:
• MIDI IN, OUT, THRU
• Channels
 No time stamps
• (almost) everything happens in real
time
 Asynchronous serial,
8-bit bytes+start+stop bits,
31.25K baud = 1MHz/32
MIDI Message Formats
Key Up
8 ch
key#
vel
Key Down
9 ch
key#
vel
Polyphonic Aftertouch
A ch
key#
press
Control Change
B ch
ctrl#
value
Program Change
C ch index#
Channel Aftertouch
D ch
press
Pitch Bend
E ch
lo 7
System Exclusive
… DATA …
F 0
F
hi 7
E
Standard MIDI Files
Key point: Must encode timing
information
Interleave time differences with MIDI
data...
<track data> =1 or more <track event>,
<track event> = <delta time> <event>,
<event> = midi data or <meta event>,
<meta event> = FF<type><length><data>
Delta times use variable length
encoding, omit for zero.
Standard MIDI Files (cont’d)
 MThd <length> <header data>header info
 MTrk <length> <track data> track data: each
 MTrk <length> <track data> with 16 channels
Overview
 Music Representation
 MIDI and Synthesizers
 Synthesis Techniques
 Music Understanding
Music Synthesis Introduction
 Primary issue is control
• No control  Digital Audio (start, stop,
...)
• Complete control  Digital Audio
(S[0], S[1], S[2], ... )
• Parametric control  Synthesis
Music Synthesis Introduction
(cont’d)
 What parameters?
• pitch
• loudness
• timbre (e.g. which instrument)
• articulation, expression, vibrato, etc.
• spatial effects (e.g. reverberation)
 Why synthesize?
• high-level representation provides
precision of specification and
supports interactivity
Additive Synthesis
n1
Si   A j sin j i  t 
j0
 amplitude A[i] and frequency [i]
specified for each partial (sinusoidal
component)
 potentially 2n more control samples
than signal samples!
Additive Synthesis (cont’d)
 often use piece-wise linear control
envelopes to save space
 still difficult to control because of so
many parameters
 and parameters do not match
perceptual attributes
Table-Lookup Oscillators
 If signal is periodic, store one period
 Control parameters: pitch, amplitude, wavefor
Frequency
+
Efficient, but ...
 Spectrum is static

Phase
Amplitude
x
(Note that
phase and
frequency are
fixed point or
floating point
numbers)
FM Synthesis
MOD FREQ
A
AMPL
+
A
F
F
 Usually use sinusoids
 “carrier” and “modulator”
are both at audio
frequencies
 If frequencies are simple
ratio (R), output spectrum
is periodic
 Output varies from
sinusoid to complex signal
as MOD increases
out = AMPL·sin(2·FREQ·t + MOD sin(2R·FREQ·t))
FM Synthesis (cont’d)
 Interesting sounds,
 Time-varying spectra, and ...
 Low computation requirements
 Often uses more than 2 oscillators
… but …
 Hard to recreate a specific waveform
 No successful analysis procedure
Sample-based Synthesis
 Samplers store waveforms for
playback
 Sounds are “looped” to extend
duration
 Spectrum is static (as in tablelookup), so:
• different samples are used for
different pitches
• simple effects are added: filter,
vibrato,
envelope
Attack amplitude
Loop
Loop again ...
Physical Models
 Additive, FM, and sampling:
more-or-less perception-based.
 Physical Modeling is source-based:
compute the wave equation, simulate
attached reeds, bows, etc.
 Example:
Reed
Bore
Bell
Physical Models (cont’d)
 Difficult to control, and ...
 Can be very computationally
intensive
… but ...
 Produce “characteristic” acoustic
sounds.
Overview
 Music Representation
 MIDI and Synthesizers
 Synthesis Techniques
 Music Understanding
Music Understanding
 Introduction
 Score Following, Computer
Accompaniment
 Interactive Performance
 Style Recognition
 Conclusions
What Does Music Mean?
Emotion
Formal structures
Abstract
Physical
What is Music Understanding?
 Translation?
 Recognition? (Of what?)
 Parsing?
 Pattern forming?
 Recognition of themes?
 Music Understanding is the
recognition of pattern and structure
in music.
Computer Accompaniment
Performance
Input
Processing
Score for
Performer
Score for
Accompaniment
Matching
Accompaniment
Performance
Music
Synthesis
(see Dannenberg ‘84)
Accompaniment
Interactive Performance
 Traditional Western Composition is
carefully composed, but the result is
static. Composer is central figure.
 Jazz and other improvisations are not
carefully composed (typically small
structures), but the result is dynamic
and spontaneous. Performer is
central figure.
 Can we integrate these two?
A New Approach to Music
Making
Computers let us put
compositional theories into
programs.
Music understanding helps us
tie programs to live
performance.
Result can be carefully
composed and structured:
Composer-oriented.
Style Recognition
Everyone recognizes musical
style:
“I don’t know anything about
music, but I know what I like”
What makes something Lyrical?
Syncopated?
Experimental Setup
Pointilistic
?
Lyrical
Frantic
Syncopated
Music Understanding
Conclusions
Music Understanding: the
recognition of pattern or
structure in music.
Music Understanding is
necessary for high-level
interfaces between musicians
and computers.
Music Summary
 Rich in representations
 Different representations support
different tasks
 Active research in:
• Synthesis
• Understanding
 Hardware to Software