MIREX 2018 submissions

March 1, 2019March 1, 2019 Chris Cannam

The 2018 edition of MIREX, the Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange, was the sixth in a row for which we at the Centre for Digital Music submitted a set of Vamp audio analysis plugins for evaluation. For the third year in a row, the set of plugins we submitted was entirely unchanged — these are… Continue reading MIREX 2018 submissions

Sonic Visualiser v3.2

December 20, 2018December 20, 2018 Chris Cannam

Another release of Sonic Visualiser is out. This one, version 3.2, has some significant visible changes, in contrast to version 3.1 which was more behind-the-scenes. The theme of this release could be said to be "oversampling" or "interpolation". Waveform interpolation Ever since the Early Days, the waveform layer in Sonic Visualiser has had one major… Continue reading Sonic Visualiser v3.2

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Rubber Band Library v1.8.2

May 20, 2018May 20, 2018 Chris Cannam

I have finally managed to get together all the bits that go into a release of the Rubber Band library, and so have just released version 1.8.2. The Rubber Band library is a software library for time-stretching and pitch-shifting of audio, particularly music audio. That means that it takes a recording of music and adjusts… Continue reading Rubber Band Library v1.8.2

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MIREX 2017 submissions

December 1, 2017March 1, 2019 Chris Cannam

For the fifth year in a row, this year the Centre for Digital Music submitted a number of Vamp audio analysis plugins to the MIREX evaluation for "music information retrieval" tasks. This year we submitted the same set of plugins as last year; there were no new implementations, and some of the existing ones are… Continue reading MIREX 2017 submissions

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Sonic Visualiser 3.0, at last

March 3, 2017 Chris Cannam

Finally! (See previous posts: Help test the Sonic Visualiser v3.0 beta, A second beta of Sonic Visualiser v3.0, A third beta of Sonic Visualiser v3.0, and Yes, there's a fourth beta of Sonic Visualiser v3.0 now) No doubt, now that the official release is out, some horrible problem or other will come to light. It… Continue reading Sonic Visualiser 3.0, at last

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