Traditional drum machines and digital drum-kits offer users the ability to practice or perform with a supporting ensemble – such as a bass, guitar and piano – but rarely provide support in the form of an accompanying percussion part. Beatback is a system which develops upon this missing interaction through offering a MIDI enabled drum system which learns and plays in the user's style. In the co...

This thesis investigates issues surrounding the design and implementation of a digital drum tutor. People have been developing digital tutors in all fields of study in an attempt to replace or complement human instructors. This drum tutor aims to replace a human instructor in some cases, but mostly to guide a student’s practice sessions, which is where the most improvement occurs. While using t...

Drum Boilers are an important component of many modern industrial facilities. Generally, the simulation of tailormade Drum Boilers starts up at each steady-state condition inside each operation region. The problem of such systems is the control of parameters, as level and pressure, around a reference value. The design of control algorithms can be accomplished using intelligent techniques such a...

This paper describes drum sound identification for polyphonic musical audio signals. It is difficult to identify drum sounds in such signals because acoustic features of those sounds vary with each musical piece and precise templates for them cannot be prepared in advance. To solve this problem, we propose new template-adaptation and templatematching methods. The former method adapts a single s...

One of the main bottlenecks in the progress of the Music Information Retrieval (MIR) research field is the limited access to common, large and annotated audio databases that could serve for technology development and/or evaluation. The aim of this paper is to present in detail the ENST-Drums database, emphasizing on both the content and the recording process. This audiovisual database of drum p...

Design issues in developing an interactive performance system are discussed. The development of Drum-Boy, an interactive percussion system for non-experts, is documented, along with discussions of features that make such a real-time creative environment effective. Concrete examples of problems encountered during the design and development phase of Drum-Boy are investigated. Specific issues incl...

This thesis investigates the moment, when the drumstick hits the membrane of a drum. Experiments were conducted to obtain information about the interaction of drummer, drumstick and membrane during a single stroke. Using a modified drumstick, the force on the drumstick, the acceleration of the stick’s tip, the duration of the contact between stick and membrane and the sound of the drum were rec...

In automatic music transcription, metadata extraction from recorded audio data or speaker separation in video conferencing, it is a significant prerequisite task to analyze and separate the audio signal into their original source components. In this report, I study and analyze a set of methods of the extraction of percussive instruments metadata from polyphonic music. It mainly focuses on the s...