Hostname: page-component-8448b6f56d-42gr6 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-04-19T19:54:12.575Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

A novel efficient algorithm for music transposition

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 November 2000

Bob Lawlor  and
A. D. Fagan
Bob Lawlor
Affiliation:
School of Control Systems and Electrical Engineering, Dublin Institute of Technology, Kevin St, Dublin 8, Ireland. E-mail: Rlawlor@dit.ie
A. D. Fagan
Affiliation:
Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland. E-mail: Afagan@faraday.ucd.ie
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

We present a novel efficient algorithm for scaling the frequency content of an audio signal by any desired factor in the range 0.5 (minus one octave) to 2.0 (plus one octave) enabling a recording to be played in any desired key without affecting the tempo. The algorithm uses an adaptive overlap-add (AOLA) technique to realise the desired frequency scaling without affecting the duration. Informal listening tests show output quality equal to that of a conventional overlap-add algorithm used in many commercially available systems, but offering significant computational saving relative to that algorithm. The algorithm can also be used to simultaneously change both the tempo and key of a recording.

Type
Research Article
Information
Organised Sound , Volume 4 , Issue 3 , December 2000 , pp. 161 - 167
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)