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If so, you'll be happy to know that Nexus user JewellSimon has made a flashable ZIP of many great 8-bit game sounds and theme songs. The sounds they made were so simple and iconic that you're probably even playing back the Mario theme in your head as you read this. were synonymous with fun times, and to this day, call up a wave of nostalgia amongst Generation-Xers.Įven if you weren't around to experience the golden age of gaming firsthand, there's just something inherently cool about those old 8-bit cartridges, which is one of the reasons why old-school emulators are so popular on our modern-day devices. The following figures highlight the comparison in the dark blue rectangle frames.Practically every kid in the '80s would rush home after school to put in some time on the first-gen Nintendo before their parents got home. By visualizing the VGGish feature vectors (see more explanation in Section 3.1 of our paper), we found that compared to the video game music, the musical timbre of the electronic music is overall less similar to the notification sounds. One reason could be related to the musical timbre. We found that using the electronic music, in general, led to less satisfying output notifications than using the video game music to train the timbre transfer model.
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The electronic music was collected from the GTZAN dataset. In addition to the video game music, we have also explored the performance of the model trained using electronic music as the source data, since we assumed timbral similarity between the electronic music and the notification sounds. Part IV: Comparison between the models trained using video game music and electronic music Piano music integrated with notification (at 5s)
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We present music examples to demonstrate this concept. We could first change the timbre of the notification to match the music being played, then embed the timbre-transferred notification into the music track, and so deliver notifications in a less intrusive manner. The concept of embedding notification into music might also be achieved with the notification timbre transfer technique. Since digital music has been widespread, researchers have explored to deliver notifications in a less pronounced way by modifying the music that a user is listening to. Notifications cause stress and distraction which can affect people's task performance, but disabling them is not a satisfying solution for most users because they will become unaware of their activity context. Part III: Less distracting information delivery with notification timbre transferĪ potential application of notification timbre transfer might be less distracting information delivery. In the following, we show notification samples that are transferred to these two multi-instrument timbres We first show a sample music for each of these two styles. We show examples for two target multi-instrument timbres: (1) piano-accompanied violin, (2) orchestra instruments. The original melody envelope of the notification can still be kept to a good extent, but the output notifications often have an unnatural mixed timbre of the instruments in the target style. Part II: Notification timbre transfer to multi-instrument timbreĬompared to the transfer to a single-instrument timbre, when a model is trained for a multi-instrument timbre, it is difficult to map a monophonic notification to a homophonic or even polyphonic music piece with several timbre tracks. Part I: Notification timbre transfer to single-instrument timbre The source codes for (1) training the notification timbre transfer model and (2) objective evaluations of melody preservation can be found in the github repo. Orchestra instruments (string, woodwind, brass, percussion sections, etc.): The Best of Classical Music.Guitar: Best of Bach - Classical Guitar Compilation - BWV.
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The video game music was collected from the following YouTube sites: video game music 1, video game music 2, video game music 3, video game music 4, video game music 5, video game music 6.įor the target domain, we collect music of different instrument timbres from the MusicNet dataset and YouTube: For the source domain, to tackle the issues of ambiguous timbre definition and insufficient training data of notification sounds, we use video game music that shares similar timbral features with notification sounds. Our notification timbre transfer network is based on the CycleGAN structure, trained with unpaired samples. In addition, we envision notification timbre transfer as a way for less distracting information delivery by embedding a timbre-transformed notificaion into the music piece that a user is listening to. We train a neural network to transform artificial notification sounds into different musical timbres. Unsupervised Musical Timbre Transfer for Notification Sounds Jing Yang, Tristan Cinquin, Gábor Sörös