Processing individual stems from raw recordings is one of the first steps of multitrack audio mixing. In this work we explore which set of low-level audio features are sufficient to design a prediction model for this transformation. We extract a large set of audio features from bass, guitar, vocal, and keys raw recordings and stems. We show that a procedure based on random forests classifiers can lead us to reduce significantly the number of features and we use the selected audio features to train various multi-output regression models. Thus, we investigate stem processing as a content-based transformation, where the inherent content of raw recordings leads us to predict the change of feature values that occurred within the transformation.

Authors: Martinez Ramirez, Marco A.; Reiss, Joshua D.
Affiliation: Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
AES Convention: 143 (October 2017) Paper Number: 9848
Publication Date: October 8, 2017 Import into BibTeX
Subject: Recording and Production
Permalink: https://www.aes.org/e-lib/browse.cfm?elib=19245

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