Multiband Kick Drum Separation with Genre-Guided Optimization
摘要
Kick drum plays an important role in electronic music. When hearing an excellent kick drum sound from a reference music track, music production beginners always feel confused about how it will sound if we solo the kick track and why it sounds perfect in a specific song. Reproducing the kick of a music track is not easy even for professional producers and arrangers. To investigate the ability of artificial intelligence in separating kick-drum sounds, in this paper we propose an end-to-end system which is capable of separating multi-genre high-quality electronic kick drum clips from mixed song tracks. Unlike most of the previous music source separation tasks, we only focus on the electronic kick drum rather than the whole percussion track. First, we design a multiband data representation approach for non-pitched percussions such as kick drums, then adopt a multi-discriminator module trained on a multi-genre kick drum corpus to further optimize the separated kick sound. To the authors’ knowledge, this study marks the first attempt at kick drum separation with stylistic optimization. Objective and subjective evaluations demonstrate that joint multiband representation and genre-guided optimisation can form a high-performance framework, showing a promising solution to the kick drum separation task.