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most citedDDSP-based Neural Waveform Synthesis of Polyphonic Guitar Performance from String-wise MIDI Input

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cs.SD2025

SMART: Tuning a symbolic music generation system with an audio domain aesthetic reward

Nicolas Jonason, Luca Casini, Bob L. T. Sturm

Recent work has proposed training machine learning models to predict aesthetic ratings for music audio. Our work explores whether such models can be used to finetune a symbolic mus…

cs.SD2024

Steer-by-prior Editing of Symbolic Music Loops

Nicolas Jonason, Luca Casini, Bob L. T. Sturm

With the goal of building a system capable of controllable symbolic music loop generation and editing, this paper explores a generalisation of Masked Language Modelling we call Sup…

cs.SD2024

SYMPLEX: Controllable Symbolic Music Generation using Simplex Diffusion with Vocabulary Priors

Nicolas Jonason, Luca Casini, Bob L. T. Sturm

We present a new approach for fast and controllable generation of symbolic music based on the simplex diffusion, which is essentially a diffusion process operating on probabilities…

cs.SD2023

Retrieval Augmented Generation of Symbolic Music with LLMs

Nicolas Jonason, Luca Casini, Carl Thomé +1

We explore the use of large language models (LLMs) for music generation using a retrieval system to select relevant examples. We find promising initial results for music generation…

cs.SD2023★ 1 cited

DDSP-based Neural Waveform Synthesis of Polyphonic Guitar Performance from String-wise MIDI Input

Nicolas Jonason, Xin Wang, Erica Cooper +3

We explore the use of neural synthesis for acoustic guitar from string-wise MIDI input. We propose four different systems and compare them with both objective metrics and subjectiv…

cs.SD2023

Exploring Softly Masked Language Modelling for Controllable Symbolic Music Generation

Nicolas Jonason, Bob L. T. Sturm

This document presents some early explorations of applying Softly Masked Language Modelling (SMLM) to symbolic music generation. SMLM can be seen as a generalisation of masked lang…

cs.SD2022

Audio Latent Space Cartography

Nicolas Jonason, Bob L. T. Sturm

We explore the generation of visualisations of audio latent spaces using an audio-to-image generation pipeline. We believe this can help with the interpretability of audio latent s…

cs.SD2022★ 1 cited

TimbreCLIP: Connecting Timbre to Text and Images

Nicolas Jonason, Bob L. T. Sturm

We present work in progress on TimbreCLIP, an audio-text cross modal embedding trained on single instrument notes. We evaluate the models with a cross-modal retrieval task on synth…