johnglover / modal

Musical Onset Database And Library (Modal)

Musical Onset Database And Library (Modal)

Modal is a cross-platform library for musical onset detection, written in C++ and Python. It is provided here under the terms of the GNU General Public License. It consists of code for several different types of Onset Detection Function (ODF), code for real-time and non-real-time onset detection, and a means for comparing the performance of different ODFs.

All ODFs are implemented in both C++ and Python. The code for Onset detection and ODF comparison is currently only available in Python.

Modal also includes a database of musical samples with hand-annotated onset locations for ODF evaluation purposes. The database is a hierarchical database, stored in the HDF5 format, and can be found here.

Note: The code needed to replicate the results from the paper "Real-time Detection of Musical Onsets with Linear Prediction and Sinusoidal Modelling", published in the EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing (2011) can now be found here: http://github.com/johnglover/eurasip2011

Documentation

Project documentation can viewed online at http://readthedocs.org/docs/modal/en/latest/.

modal's Issues

How to use the cpp functions?

Dear,
How to use the functions in VS2017?
I can't !
Help me !
Please!

Where is the 'downloads' section for the HDF5 database?

The readme mentions a downloadable HDF5 database not included with the repository, but I can't find the mentioned downloads section or anything in the doc. Perhaps the Readme is out of date?

How to install a modal in python?

I am trying to use modal in one of my projects but I couldn't able to install it. I am using window

Improve the docs

The docs leave something to be desired -- they cover installation and point to the examples folder. It'd be nice if they were improved to cover every function and the flavors needed (continuous array, dtype=double) etc. More realistically, it should at least cover what basic functions do/mean. For example, I would guess that onsets in modal/examples/example.py is where each note starts. But how do I increase the number of notes found?