Music De-limiter Networks via Sample-wise Gain Inversion

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Auteurs principaux: Jeon, Chang-Bin, Lee, Kyogu
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author Jeon, Chang-Bin
Lee, Kyogu
author_facet Jeon, Chang-Bin
Lee, Kyogu
contents The loudness war, an ongoing phenomenon in the music industry characterized by the increasing final loudness of music while reducing its dynamic range, has been a controversial topic for decades. Music mastering engineers have used limiters to heavily compress and make music louder, which can induce ear fatigue and hearing loss in listeners. In this paper, we introduce music de-limiter networks that estimate uncompressed music from heavily compressed signals. Inspired by the principle of a limiter, which performs sample-wise gain reduction of a given signal, we propose the framework of sample-wise gain inversion (SGI). We also present the musdb-XL-train dataset, consisting of 300k segments created by applying a commercial limiter plug-in for training real-world friendly de-limiter networks. Our proposed de-limiter network achieves excellent performance with a scale-invariant source-to-distortion ratio (SI-SDR) of 24.0 dB in reconstructing musdb-HQ from musdb-XL data, a limiter-applied version of musdb-HQ. The training data, codes, and model weights are available in our repository (https://github.com/jeonchangbin49/De-limiter).
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spellingShingle Music De-limiter Networks via Sample-wise Gain Inversion
Jeon, Chang-Bin
Lee, Kyogu
Sound
Audio and Speech Processing
The loudness war, an ongoing phenomenon in the music industry characterized by the increasing final loudness of music while reducing its dynamic range, has been a controversial topic for decades. Music mastering engineers have used limiters to heavily compress and make music louder, which can induce ear fatigue and hearing loss in listeners. In this paper, we introduce music de-limiter networks that estimate uncompressed music from heavily compressed signals. Inspired by the principle of a limiter, which performs sample-wise gain reduction of a given signal, we propose the framework of sample-wise gain inversion (SGI). We also present the musdb-XL-train dataset, consisting of 300k segments created by applying a commercial limiter plug-in for training real-world friendly de-limiter networks. Our proposed de-limiter network achieves excellent performance with a scale-invariant source-to-distortion ratio (SI-SDR) of 24.0 dB in reconstructing musdb-HQ from musdb-XL data, a limiter-applied version of musdb-HQ. The training data, codes, and model weights are available in our repository (https://github.com/jeonchangbin49/De-limiter).
title Music De-limiter Networks via Sample-wise Gain Inversion
topic Sound
Audio and Speech Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.01187