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Reverse Engineering the Amen Break - Score-informed Separation and Restoration applied to Drum Recordings

This is the accompanying website for the paper:

  1. Christian Dittmar and Meinard Müller
    Reverse Engineering the Amen Break — Score-Informed Separation and Restoration Applied to Drum Recordings
    IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, 24(9): 1531–1543, 2016. Demo DOI 
    @article{DittmarMueller16_DrumSep_IEEE-ACM-TASLP,
author    = {Christian Dittmar and Meinard M{\"u}ller},
title     = {Reverse Engineering the {A}men Break -- Score-Informed Separation and Restoration Applied to Drum Recordings},
journal   = {{IEEE/ACM} Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing},
volume    = {24},
number    = {9},
pages     = {1531--1543},
year      = {2016},
doi       = {10.1109/TASLP.2016.2567645},
url-demo = {https://www.audiolabs-erlangen.de/resources/MIR/2016-IEEE-TASLP-DrumSeparation}
}

Abstract

This paper [1] investigates the suitability of NMFD [4] for source separation of drum solo recordings (especially breakbeats) into their constituent drum sound events. This accompanying website lists several audio examples of decompositions of real-world breakbeats as well as selected items from our "IDMT-SMT-Drums" test set [3].

Popular breakbeats: [Amen Break] [Funky Drummer] [Apache]
Selected test set items: [WaveDrum02_56] [WaveDrum02_44] [WaveDrum02_30]
Amen brother

References

  1. Christian Dittmar and Meinard Müller
    Reverse Engineering the Amen Break — Score-informed Separation and Restoration applied to Drum Recordings
    IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, 24(9): 1531–1543, 2016. PDF DOI 
    @article{DittmarMueller16_DrumSeparation_IEEE-TASLP,
author = {Christian Dittmar and Meinard M{\"u}ller},
title = {{Reverse Engineering the Amen Break -- Score-informed Separation and Restoration applied to Drum Recordings}},
journal = {{IEEE}/{ACM} Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing},
year = {2016},
volume={24},
number={9},
pages={1531--1543},
doi = {10.1109/TASLP.2016.2567645},
url-pdf = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=7469352},
}
  2. Christian Dittmar and Meinard Müller
    Towards Transient Restoration in Score-informed Audio Decomposition
    In Proceedings of the International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx): 145–152, 2015. PDF 
    @inproceedings{DittmarM15_TransientRestore_DAFx,
AUTHOR={Christian Dittmar and Meinard M{\"u}ller},
TITLE={Towards Transient Restoration in Score-informed Audio Decomposition},
BOOKTITLE={Proceedings of the International Conference on Digital Audio Effects ({DAF}x)},
ADDRESS={Trondheim, Norway},
MONTH={November},
YEAR={2015},
pages = {145--152},
url-pdf={http://www.ntnu.edu/documents/1001201110/1266017954/DAFx-15_submission_31.pdf/bd700f13-cbb0-441b-b1a7-9078e268e99f},
}
  3. Christian Dittmar and Daniel Gärtner
    Real-Time Transcription and Separation of Drum Recordings based on NMF Decomposition
    In Proceedings of the International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx): 187–194, 2014. PDF 
    @inproceedings{DittmarG14_DrumTranscription_DAFX,
author = {Christian Dittmar and Daniel G{\"a}rtner},
title = {Real-Time Transcription and Separation of Drum Recordings based on {NMF} Decomposition},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Digital Audio Effects ({DAFx})},
year = {2014},
address = {Erlangen, Germany},
month = {September},
pages = {187--194},
url-pdf={http://www.dafx14.fau.de/papers/dafx14_christian_dittmar_real_time_transcription_a.pdf},
}
  4. Paris Smaragdis
    Non-negative Matrix Factor Deconvolution; Extraction of Multiple Sound Sources from Monophonic Inputs
    In Proceedings of the International Conference for Independent Component Analysis and Blind Signal Separation (ICA): 494–499, 2004. PDF 
    @inproceedings{Smaragdis04_NMD,
author    = {Paris Smaragdis},
title     = {Non-negative Matrix Factor Deconvolution; Extraction of Multiple Sound Sources from Monophonic Inputs},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference for Independent Component Analysis and Blind Signal Separation ({ICA})},
pages     = {494--499},
year      = {2004},
addres = {Granada, Spain},
month   = {September},
url-pdf={http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-540-30110-3_63#page-1},
}
  5. Daniel W. Griffin and Jae S. Lim
    Signal Estimation from Modified Short-Time Fourier transform
    IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, 32(2): 236–243, 1984. PDF 
    @article{GriffinL84_SpecgramInversion_TASSP,
author={Daniel W. Griffin and Jae S. Lim},
journal={{IEEE} Transactions on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing},
title={{Signal Estimation from Modified Short-Time Fourier transform}},
year={1984},
month={April},
volume={32},
number={2},
pages={236-243},
url-pdf={http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=1164317},
}