| 1 | AUBIO LIBRARY |
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| 3 | Aubio is a library for real time audio labelling. It can segment a sound at |
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| 4 | each of its attacks, perform pitch detection and produce midi streams from live |
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| 5 | audio. |
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| 6 | |
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| 7 | Aubio is still in an alpha state. More to come soon, suggestions and feedback |
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| 8 | welcome. |
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| 9 | |
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| 10 | A few examples of applications are provided in examples/ and python/: |
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| 11 | - aubioonset output the onset detected, |
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| 12 | - aubionotes emits midi-like notes, |
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| 13 | - aubiocuts is a python script that takes an input sound and creates one new |
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| 14 | sample at each new onsettimes |
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| 16 | The first two can work either offline or online, outputing the results on the |
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| 17 | console or playing a woodblock sound at each detected onset. |
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| 19 | The name Aubio comes from 'audio' with a typo. It is likely to have many |
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| 20 | transcription errors in the results too! |
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| 21 | |
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| 22 | DEPENDANCIES |
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| 23 | |
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| 24 | This package depends on the following libraries and utils: |
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| 25 | - automake1.7 |
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| 26 | - libsndfile1 |
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| 27 | - fftw3 |
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| 28 | - libsamplerate |
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| 29 | - libjack (optional) |
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| 30 | - libasound2 (optional) |
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| 31 | - python, python-numarray (optional) |
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| 32 | - swig (>= 1.3, optional, for the python interface) |
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| 33 | |
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| 34 | BUILDING AUBIO |
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| 35 | |
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| 36 | The usual invocation `$ ./configure && make' should do the job. Read on the |
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| 37 | generic INSTALL file for more information. |
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| 38 | |
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| 39 | DEBIAN |
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| 40 | |
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| 41 | You could try the debian package (see http://piem.homeip.net/~piem/debian/) |
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| 43 | On Debian you need the following packages to compile aubio: automake |
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| 44 | libsndfile1-dev libjack-dev fftw3-dev libsamplerate0-dev python python-dev |
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| 45 | python-numarray swig |
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| 46 | |
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| 47 | OTHER PLATFORMS |
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| 48 | |
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| 49 | Support has never been tested for Windows or MacOsX. It _could_ work with |
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| 50 | $ ./configure --enable-alsa=no --enable-jack=no |
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| 51 | Again, untested. Feedback and patches welcome. |
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| 52 | |
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| 53 | STATUS |
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| 54 | |
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| 55 | The shared library libaubio provides the following tools: |
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| 56 | - various maths tools |
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| 57 | - phase vocoder |
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| 58 | - up/downsampling |
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| 59 | - filtering (n pole/zero pairs) |
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| 60 | - onset detection functions |
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| 61 | - onset peak picking |
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| 62 | - multicomb-filtering pitchdetection |
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| 63 | - transient/steady-state separation |
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| 64 | - alsa midi and jack input outputs |
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| 66 | A swig wrapper is provided in swig/. For now, I have only been playing with the |
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| 67 | python interface. But there is much overlap with projects such as pyjack and |
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| 68 | numeric. To be continued... |
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| 69 | |
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| 70 | `Make it run, make it right, make it fast.' [1] Aubio is in the "Make it right" |
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| 71 | process: almost no optimisation has been done to the code, and its speed could |
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| 72 | be much improved. The pitch detection is especially slow. |
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| 74 | [1] see http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?MakeItWorkMakeItRightMakeItFast |
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| 75 | |
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| 76 | EXTEND |
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| 77 | |
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| 78 | The C API is designed in the following old school way: |
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| 80 | void del_aubio_thing(aubio_thing_t * t); |
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| 81 | aubio_thing_t * new_aubio_thing(void * args); |
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| 82 | audio_thing_methods(aubio_thing_t * t, void * args); |
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| 83 | |
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| 84 | Memory allocation or freeing should never take place in these _methods, and |
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| 85 | should all be bound to the new_ and del_ methods. Also most gcc warning flags |
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| 86 | are turned on, so functions must be prototyped and variables used. |
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| 87 | |
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| 88 | CONTACT |
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| 89 | |
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| 90 | This project is a demo program for my research project. It can be found online |
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| 91 | at http://piem.homeip.net/~piem/aubio/. I have been writting about the results |
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| 92 | obtained with aubio in the following papers (that are about to be published!): |
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| 94 | P. M. Brossier and J. P. Bello and M. D. Plumbley, Real-time temporal |
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| 95 | segmentation of note objects in music signals, Proceedings of the |
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| 96 | International Computer Music Conference, 2004, Miami, Florida, ICMA |
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| 97 | |
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| 98 | P. M. Brossier and J. P. Bello and M. D. Plumbley, Fast labelling of note |
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| 99 | objects in music signals, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Music |
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| 100 | Information Retrieval, 2004, Barcelona, Spain |
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| 102 | Feel free to drop me a comment at piem@altern.org. |
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