Improving Unsupervised Clean-to-Rendered Guitar Tone Transformation Using GANs and Integrated Unaligned Clean Data

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Autori principali: Chen, Yu-Hua, Choi, Woosung, Liao, Wei-Hsiang, Martínez-Ramírez, Marco, Cheuk, Kin Wai, Mitsufuji, Yuki, Jang, Jyh-Shing Roger, Yang, Yi-Hsuan
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author Chen, Yu-Hua
Choi, Woosung
Liao, Wei-Hsiang
Martínez-Ramírez, Marco
Cheuk, Kin Wai
Mitsufuji, Yuki
Jang, Jyh-Shing Roger
Yang, Yi-Hsuan
author_facet Chen, Yu-Hua
Choi, Woosung
Liao, Wei-Hsiang
Martínez-Ramírez, Marco
Cheuk, Kin Wai
Mitsufuji, Yuki
Jang, Jyh-Shing Roger
Yang, Yi-Hsuan
contents Recent years have seen increasing interest in applying deep learning methods to the modeling of guitar amplifiers or effect pedals. Existing methods are mainly based on the supervised approach, requiring temporally-aligned data pairs of unprocessed and rendered audio. However, this approach does not scale well, due to the complicated process involved in creating the data pairs. A very recent work done by Wright et al. has explored the potential of leveraging unpaired data for training, using a generative adversarial network (GAN)-based framework. This paper extends their work by using more advanced discriminators in the GAN, and using more unpaired data for training. Specifically, drawing inspiration from recent advancements in neural vocoders, we employ in our GAN-based model for guitar amplifier modeling two sets of discriminators, one based on multi-scale discriminator (MSD) and the other multi-period discriminator (MPD). Moreover, we experiment with adding unprocessed audio signals that do not have the corresponding rendered audio of a target tone to the training data, to see how much the GAN model benefits from the unpaired data. Our experiments show that the proposed two extensions contribute to the modeling of both low-gain and high-gain guitar amplifiers.
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spellingShingle Improving Unsupervised Clean-to-Rendered Guitar Tone Transformation Using GANs and Integrated Unaligned Clean Data
Chen, Yu-Hua
Choi, Woosung
Liao, Wei-Hsiang
Martínez-Ramírez, Marco
Cheuk, Kin Wai
Mitsufuji, Yuki
Jang, Jyh-Shing Roger
Yang, Yi-Hsuan
Sound
Audio and Speech Processing
Recent years have seen increasing interest in applying deep learning methods to the modeling of guitar amplifiers or effect pedals. Existing methods are mainly based on the supervised approach, requiring temporally-aligned data pairs of unprocessed and rendered audio. However, this approach does not scale well, due to the complicated process involved in creating the data pairs. A very recent work done by Wright et al. has explored the potential of leveraging unpaired data for training, using a generative adversarial network (GAN)-based framework. This paper extends their work by using more advanced discriminators in the GAN, and using more unpaired data for training. Specifically, drawing inspiration from recent advancements in neural vocoders, we employ in our GAN-based model for guitar amplifier modeling two sets of discriminators, one based on multi-scale discriminator (MSD) and the other multi-period discriminator (MPD). Moreover, we experiment with adding unprocessed audio signals that do not have the corresponding rendered audio of a target tone to the training data, to see how much the GAN model benefits from the unpaired data. Our experiments show that the proposed two extensions contribute to the modeling of both low-gain and high-gain guitar amplifiers.
title Improving Unsupervised Clean-to-Rendered Guitar Tone Transformation Using GANs and Integrated Unaligned Clean Data
topic Sound
Audio and Speech Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.15751