A Universal Music Translation Network
This enables the creation of instrumental music by untrained humans, though it appears incremental as it builds on existing wavenet autoencoder techniques.
The paper tackles the problem of translating music across instruments, genres, and styles without supervision, achieving convincing translations even for unseen domains like whistling.
We present a method for translating music across musical instruments, genres, and styles. This method is based on a multi-domain wavenet autoencoder, with a shared encoder and a disentangled latent space that is trained end-to-end on waveforms. Employing a diverse training dataset and large net capacity, the domain-independent encoder allows us to translate even from musical domains that were not seen during training. The method is unsupervised and does not rely on supervision in the form of matched samples between domains or musical transcriptions. We evaluate our method on NSynth, as well as on a dataset collected from professional musicians, and achieve convincing translations, even when translating from whistling, potentially enabling the creation of instrumental music by untrained humans.