[LAD] Audio2MIDI algorithms

It was a previous discussion "Musescore "music trainer"?", about
polyphonic audio to MIDI recognition. I found a windows program that
claim to archive good results : TallStick TS-AudioToMIDI

On this webpage : http://tallstick.com/webhelp/algorithm.htm,
they wrote some interesting claims :

- "They (3 of the 4 algorithms) all are based on the set of oscillator
  circuits named sensors. Each sensor gets wave signal as input and
  produces some reply. Sensor's reply is a value proportional to the
  amplitude of component with frequency about equal to sensor's
  resonance one."

This is what I call "filtre en peigne" in french. Comb filter. Each
"teeth" of the comb will test for one frequency.

- After sensor's output is multiplied on correspond Equalizer values,
  it arrives on Spectrum Window. All these methods analyze spectrum
  data at each instant of time from left to right (from low to high
  pitches). When spectral maximum is detected it assumed to be
  fundamental frequency of note. This assumption is tested by comparing
  spectra to Harmonic model setting. After this, if assumed note is
  greater than Threshold value then note accepts, otherwise rejects. If
  note is accepted, all it's spectral components are subtracted from
  corresponding components of whole spectra.

This show that the whole algorithm is more complex than a simple
recursive filtering. They take in account the spectra of the music. You
can (and must) assign the instruments that play the music, before to
made the conversion.

Ciao,
Dominique

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