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cvwright • today at 3:03 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

Very nice! Extracting the guitar track would be awesome but it’s so much hardier than drums. Even cymbals are hard. And guitars have chords and distortion and…


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XCSme • today at 3:34 PM

Yeah, that's why my idea was to use neural nets trained on manually labeled data, instead of relying solely on pitch detection.

Also, probably AIs nowadays can help a lot with generating training data, and even improving detection.

That being said, even SOTA voice recognition has only like 95% accuracy, so it gets wrong 1 in 20 words. Imagine if transcribing a melody and 1 in 20 notes are wrong, for a fast melody that would mean a wrong note every few bars.