Browsing Category : Music

Troubadour intervals application June 2, 2020

Troubadour platform – IEEE Access paper published

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We have been working on the troubadour platform – an online web-based e-learning platform for ear training. In this research, we have been collaborating with the teachers and the students from the Conservatory for music and ballet, Ljubljana. Our work was also recognised by the IEEE Spectrum magazine, where I had a short interview about the platform (https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/software/interactive-elearning-platform-boosts-performance-of-new-musicians)

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Rhythm CHM February 2, 2020

Compositional hierarchical model for rhythmic pattern analysis

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We recently published another paper on the compositional hierarchical model. In an attempt to further generalise the model, we adjusted and applied it to rhythmic input. The model showed promising results; while it was trained unsupervisedly, it identified basic rhythmic patterns. Moreover, it adjusted to live music (live performance) where it unsupervisedly discriminated between different meters. Quite awesome! The full…

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Putting the keys back onto the platform. The adjusting the springs takes some time. March 13, 2017

Roland VK-7 sticky keys red glue problem – solved

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About two years ago I bought a nice sounding Roland VK-7. The keyboard was in nice shape – however, it did develop (or had previously) a few flaws during the last year. The first problem (which I also informed of by the previous owner) was a random reset of the whole keyboard. After googling about similar problems other VK-7 owners had,…

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DIL adapter - 64kbit to 16kbit chip converter March 2, 2017

Hammond XB-2 – the conclusion

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Dejan and I have finally managed to perform one last attempt to fix the Hammond XB-2. As said in my previous blog post, the XB-2 I bought had an interesting distorted sound problem. This is a video of the sound problem: We tried a number of things, including the DRAM swap. Today, we performed the SRAM swap. Since we were not able to obtain…

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The XB-2 Main Board November 29, 2016

Fixing Hammond XB-2

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A few weeks ago Dejan and I began our work on Hammond XB-2 again. The current problem can be heard here: We tracked the problem back to the static RAMs, which was also mentioned as a solution in one of the comments on this similar youtube video. We opened the keyboard and took out the main board. As you can…

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Oblačna rešitev ReverSing June 11, 2016

ReverSing – zmagovalni študentski projekt – Dnevi Slovenske Informatike 2016

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Na Dnevih Slovenske Informatike sva z Luko Zakrajškom predstavljala študentski projekt ReverSing, ki je spletna rešitev za transkripcijo glasbe. Z veseljem sporočava, da bo ReverSing v naslednjih tednih prešel v javno beta fazo. Za tiste, ki vas rešitev zanima, sledi daljši opis projekta, ki je v obliki letaka na voljo tudi tukaj: ReverSing opis projekta. Problem Glasbeniki, učitelji glasbe in glasbeni navdušenci…

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Hammond XB-2 and Roland VK-7 October 15, 2015

Big boys … new toys: Roland VK-7 and Hammond XB-2

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Last week I bought two aswesome instruments  – a Roland VK-7 and Hammond XB-2. The latter unfortunately has the MUSE chip failure. I tested it few months ago and shot this video. I still haven’t given up on it. I checked some options including the XB2-kit. The kit is however more expensive than a fully functional keyboard (and the XB-2…

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Friction Drum - Lončeni Bas September 21, 2015

MusicTechFest – Friction Drum

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On Saturday Karmen and Miha presented the electric version of the Friction Drum instrument (a folk instrument well known in Slovenija, as well as other parts of the world) at Music Tech Fest in Ljubljana. The presentation was awesome, as well as the demo of them playing. I managed to make a few pics with my mobile phone (thus, the quality) and a…

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Music Tech Fest September 18, 2015

MusicTechFest – Compositional hierarchical model

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Today, Manca, Luka and I presented the Compositional hierarchical model at the Music of Science session at Music Tech Fest in Ljubljana. As a part of his undergraduate degree, Luka built an awesome transcription editor which uses the CHM as classifier. It will probably never reach version 1.0 since the “ideas” stack grows exponentially. However, we are planning on providing a freeware…

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Crumar T1 Organiser June 22, 2014

Crumar – we’re almost there!

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Z Dejanom sva uspela identificirati še zadnji problem nedelovanja in šumenja orgel. Tokrat je bil problem v slabih kontaktih na ploščici, kjer se nahaja oscilator, kar je posledično vplivalo na več ali manj ves output. Najin zadnji podvig bo reševanje ene in edine nedelujoče tipke. Sama tipka niti ne moti, če je bas del vklopljen (v tem primeru se zvok…

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