text: Comunicacio presentada a la 22a International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx-19) que se celebra del 2 al 6 de setembre de 2019 a Birmingham, Regne Unit.
  @cite_10: Generative models in vision have seen rapid progress due to algorithmic improvements and the availability of high-quality image datasets. In this paper, we offer contributions in both these areas to enable similar progress in audio modeling. First, we detail a powerful new WaveNet-style autoencoder model that conditions an autoregressive decoder on temporal codes learned from the raw audio waveform. Second, we introduce NSynth, a large-scale and high-quality dataset of musical notes that is an order of magnitude larger than comparable public datasets. Using NSynth, we demonstrate improved qualitative and quantitative performance of the WaveNet autoencoder over a well-tuned spectral autoencoder baseline. Finally, we show that the model learns a manifold of embeddings that allows for morphing between instruments, meaningfully interpolating in timbre to create new types of sounds that are realistic and expressive.
summary: Within the context of NSynth @cite_10 , a new high-quality dataset of one shot instrumental notes was presented, largely surpassing the size of the previous datasets, containing @math musical notes with unique pitch, timbre and envelope. The sounds were collected from @math instruments from commercial sample libraries and are annotated based on their source (acoustic, electronic or synthetic), instrument family and sonic qualities. The instrument families used in the annotation are bass, brass, flute, guitar, keyboard, mallet, organ, reed, string, synth lead and vocal. The dataset is available online https: magenta.tensorflow.org datasets nsynth and provides a good basis for training and evaluating one shot instrumental sound classifiers. This dataset is already split in training, validation and test set, where the instruments present in the training set do not overlap with the ones present in validation and test sets. However, to the best of our knowledge, no methods for instrument classification have so far been evaluated on this dataset.