Onset Detection, Music Transcription and Ornament Detection for the Traditional Irish Fiddle
Document Type Conference Paper
Audio Engineering Society Convention Paper presented at the 118th. Convention, May 28-31, 2005, Barcelona, Spain. http://www.audioresearchgroup.com/
Abstract
By combining techniques used in previous onset detectors, a system that detects note onsets in traditional Irish fiddle tunes has been implemented. The notes detected also include the most common type of ornamentation played by the fiddle. Ornaments are notes of extremely short duration, at most a fifth the length of a regular note. A Short Time Fourier Transform based sub-band technique, which previously gave good results for the Irish tin whistle, was modified to include a threshold approximation more suitable for the fiddle. This system has been tested on a database of real recorded fiddle tunes and good results have been achieved.