Enhanced Automatic Drum Transcription via Drum Stem Source Separation
Xavier Riley (C4DM)*, Simon Dixon (Queen Mary University of London)
This paper will be presented in person
Automatic Drum Transcription (ADT) remains a challenging task in MIR but recent advances allow accurate transcription of drum kits with up 5 classes - kick, snare, hi-hats, toms and cymbals - via the ADTOF package. In addition, several drum kit stem separation models in the open source community support separation for more than 6 stem classes, including for distinct crash and ride cymbals. In this work we explore the benefits of combining these tools to improve the realism and accuracy of drum transcriptions. We describe a simple post-processing step which expands the transcription output from five to seven classes. Furthermore, we are able to estimate MIDI velocity values based on the separated stems. Our solution achieves strong performance when assessed against a baseline of 8-class drum transcription and produces realistic MIDI transcriptions suitable for MIR or music production tasks.