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AUBIO LIBRARY Aubio is a library for real time audio labelling. It can segment a sound at each of its attacks, perform pitch detection and produce midi streams from live audio. Aubio is still in an alpha state. More to come soon, suggestions and feedback welcome. A few examples of applications are provided in examples/ and python/: - aubioonset output the onset detected, - aubionotes emits midi-like notes, - aubiocuts is a python script that takes an input sound and creates one new sample at each new onsettimes The first two can work either offline or online, outputing the results on the console or playing a woodblock sound at each detected onset. The name Aubio comes from 'audio' with a typo. It is likely to have many transcription errors in the results too! DEPENDANCIES This package depends on the following libraries and utils: - automake1.7 - libsndfile1 - fftw3 - libsamplerate - libjack (optional) - libasound2 (optional) - python, python-numarray (optional) - swig (optional, for the python interface) BUILDING AUBIO The usual invocation `$ ./configure && make' should do the job. Read on the generic INSTALL file for more information. DEBIAN You could try the debian package (see http://piem.homeip.net/~piem/debian/) On Debian you need the following packages to compile aubio: automake libsndfile1-dev libjack-dev fftw3-dev libsamplerate0-dev python python-dev python-numarray swig OTHER PLATFORMS Support has never been tested for Windows or MacOsX. It _could_ work with $ ./configure --enable-alsa=no --enable-jack=no Again, untested. Feedback and patches welcome. STATUS The shared library libaubio provides the following tools: - various maths tools - phase vocoder - up/downsampling - filtering (n pole/zero pairs) - onset detection functions - onset peak picking - multicomb-filtering pitchdetection - transient/steady-state separation - alsa midi and jack input outputs A swig wrapper is provided in swig/. For now, I have only been playing with the python interface. But there is much overlap with projects such as pyjack and numeric. To be continued... `Make it run, make it right, make it fast.' [1] Aubio is in the "Make it right" process: almost no optimisation has been done to the code, and its speed could be much improved. The pitch detection is especially slow. [1] see http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?MakeItWorkMakeItRightMakeItFast EXTEND The C API is designed in the following old school way: void del_aubio_thing(aubio_thing_t * t); aubio_thing_t * new_aubio_thing(void * args); audio_thing_methods(aubio_thing_t * t, void * args); Memory allocation or freeing should never take place in these _methods, and should all be bound to the new_ and del_ methods. Also most gcc warning flags are turned on, so functions must be prototyped and variables used. CONTACT This project is a demo program for my research project. It can be found online at http://piem.homeip.net/~piem/aubio/. I have been writting about the results obtained with aubio in the following papers (that are about to be published!): P. M. Brossier and J. P. Bello and M. D. Plumbley, Real-time temporal segmentation of note objects in music signals, Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference, 2004, Miami, Florida, ICMA P. M. Brossier and J. P. Bello and M. D. Plumbley, Fast labelling of note objects in music signals, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Music Information Retrieval, 2004, Barcelona, Spain Feel free to drop me a comment at piem@altern.org.