Journal of Software Engineering and Applications

Volume 6, Issue 5 (May 2013)

ISSN Print: 1945-3116   ISSN Online: 1945-3124

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Mixed Music Analysis with Extended Specmurt

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DOI: 10.4236/jsea.2013.65034    6,144 Downloads   8,150 Views  

ABSTRACT

This paper introduces a mixed music analysis method using extended specmurt analysis. Conventional specmurt can only analyze a multi-pitch music signal from a single instrument and cannot analyze a mixed music signal that has several different types of instruments being played at the same time. To analyze a mixed music signal, extended specmurt is proposed. We regard the observed spectrum extracted from the mixed music as the summation of the observed spectra corresponding to each instrument. The mixed music has as many unknown fundamental frequency distributions as the number of instruments since the observed spectrum of a single instrument can be expressed as a convolution of the common harmonic structure and the fundamental frequency distribution. The relation among the observed spectrum, the common harmonic structure and the fundamental frequency distribution is transformed into a matrix representation in order to obtain the unknown fundamental frequency distributions. The equation is called extended specmurt, and the matrix of unknown components can be obtained by using a pseudo inverse matrix. The experimental result shows the effectiveness of the proposed method.

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Nishimura, D. , Nakashika, T. , Takiguchi, T. and Ariki, Y. (2013) Mixed Music Analysis with Extended Specmurt. Journal of Software Engineering and Applications, 6, 274-279. doi: 10.4236/jsea.2013.65034.

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