Neglected Solo Instruments

Multiple F0 tracking in solo recordings of monodic instruments

This article is concerned with the F0 tracking in monodic instrument solo recordings. Due to reverberation, the observed signal is rather polyphonic and single-F0 tracking techniques often give unsatisfying results. The proposed method is based on multiple-F0 estimation and makes use of the a priori knowledge that the observed spectrum is generated by a single monodic instrument. The predominan...

Subjective evaluation of musical instruments on the basis of solo pieces of music

This study examines the human quality perception of musical instruments. It provides the background for future development of objective algorithms ([1],[2]) to distinguish between musical instruments on a quality basis. Previous studies showed that evaluation using single tones is not sufficient ([3],[4],[5],[6]), thus tone sequences will be used. This corresponds also more to the natural situa...

Electronic Engineering Final Year Project: Automatic Computer Classification of Solo Musical Instruments Project Proposal

Pitch Detection/Tracking Strategy for Musical Recordings of Solo Bowed-String and Wind Instruments

A pitch detection/tracking strategy for solo bowed-string and wind musical instrumental recordings is presented. To avoid the missing fundamental problem, we adopted the greatest common divisor method and modified it with a weighted-and-voting technique that can reveal more information of strong partials in the target signal. Moreover, a frame-based correction method with consideration of the p...

Solo polarization

eterochromatin’s repressive hold on DNA transcription can only be relinquished when activators enter the nucleus. Or so the theory goes. But now Vanessa Witte, Andreas Baur (University of Erlangen, Germany), and colleagues find that a heterochromatin component can be pulled from the nucleus by both the HIV protein Nef and activated integrins. “This is a really new concept—that chromatin-associa...