Dan Ellis :Sound Examples :

One `holy grail' of automatic sound analysis is music transcription, which could be defined as trying to convert a real recording of music into an equivalent MIDI representation. As it happens, a large amount of pop music has already been converted into MIDI - not automatically, but by fans and hobbyists. These MIDI replicas are an intriguing information source for music research, as discussed in our paper on MIDI alignment.

CS 101 - Sample Sound Files Here are some sample sound file that your can use to test your programs BabyElephantWalk60.wav; CantinaBand3.wav A 3 second version; CantinaBand60.wav. Sample MP3 Files Download MP3 MPEG-1 Audio Layer-3 MP3 is a lossy audio file format, which was first released by the Moving Picture Experts Group in 1993.

This page brings together a few examples of actual musical recordings along with their MIDI equivalents, both as MIDI files and synthesized into audio. We also provide hand-marked labels for the major segment breaks for this music, for some of both the original and MIDI-synthesized audio.

Track	Artist	Original audio	Transcript of original	MIDI	MIDI audio	Transcript of MIDI
Africa	Toto	africa-toto.wav (13M)	africa-toto.phn	africa-toto.mid	africa-toto-midi.wav	africa-toto-midi.phn
Around the World	ATC	around_the_world-atc.wav (9M)	around_the_world-atc.phn	around_the_world-atc.mid	around_the_world-atc-midi.wav	around_the_world-atc-midi.phn
I ran so far away	Flock of Seagulls	i_ran_so_far_away-flock_of_seagulls.wav (13M)	i_ran_so_far_away-flock_of_seagulls.phn	i_ran_so_far_away-flock_of_seagulls.mid	i_ran_so_far_away-flock_of_seagulls-midi.wav	i_ran_so_far_away-flock_of_seagulls-midi.phn
Temple of Love	Sisters of Mercy	temple_of_love-sisters_of_mercy.wav (21M)	temple_of_love-sisters_of_mercy.phn	temple_of_love-sisters_of_mercy.mid	temple_of_love-sisters_of_mercy-midi.wav	(not available)
Beautiful Life	Ace of Base	beautiful_life-ace_of_base.wav (9.5M)	(not available)	beautiful_life-ace_of_base.mid	beautiful_life-ace_of_base-midi.wav	beautiful_life-ace_of_base-midi.phn
Don't Speak	No Doubt	dont_speak-no_doubt.wav (11M)	(not available)	dont_speak-no_doubt.mid	dont_speak-no_doubt-midi.wav	dont_speak-no_doubt-midi.phn
Mambo No. 5	Lou Bega	mambo_no_5-lou_bega.wav (9.6M)	(not available)	mambo_no_5-lou_bega.mid	mambo_no_5-lou_bega-midi.wav	mambo_no_5-lou_bega-midi.phn
Evangeline	Matthew Sweet	evangeline-matthew_sweet.wav (13M)	evangeline-matthew_sweet.phn	(not available)	(not available)	(not available)

Notes on data

The audio files (*.wav) are in MS-WAVE format, downsampled to 22kHz mono from the original CD tracks.

The transcript files (*.phn) are text files whereeach line has the format

.where the samples are at 22kHz, so you convert those numbers to time in seconds by dividing them by 22050.

Sample Sound Files Free

Notes on sources

The track selection and MIDI file processing was done by Rob Turetsky. The manual transcriptions were created by Angel Umpierre during an internship in Summer 2003. Thanks to them both.

Acknowledgment

This material is based in part upon work supported by the NationalScience Foundation under Grant No. IIS-0238301. Any opinions, findingsand conclusions or recomendations expressed in this material are thoseof the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of theNational Science Foundation (NSF).

Last updated: $Date: 2004/03/14 05:41:01 $
Dan Ellis <dpwe@ee.columbia.edu>

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