In this work we propose a deep learning based method—namely, variational, convolutional recurrent autoencoders (VCRAE)—for musical instrument synthesis. This method utilizes the higher level time-frequency representations extracted by the convolutional and recurrent layers to learn a Gaussian distribution in the training stage, which will be later used to infer unique samples through interpolation of multiple instruments in the usage stage. The reconstruction performance of VCRAE is evaluated by proxy through an instrument classifier and provides significantly better accuracy than two other baseline autoencoder methods. The synthesized samples for the combinations of 15 different instruments are available on the companion website.
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