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Neural Modeling of Magnetic Tape Recorders

This repository contains the code for the research article:

O. Mikkonen, A. Wright, E. Moliner and V. Välimäki, “Neural Modeling Of Magnetic Tape Recorders,”
in Proceedings of the International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx),
Copenhagen, Denmark, 4-7 September 2023.

The pre-print of the article can be found from here.
The accompanying web page can be found from here.
The datasets can be found from here.

System block diagram

SETUP

Clone the repository and submodules

git clone [email protected]:01tot10/neural-tape-modeling.git
cd neural-tape-modeling
git submodule init && git submodule update

Create the Python virtual environment with mamba (preferred) / conda

mamba/conda env create --file environment.yaml

Download data to symlinked location audio/ -> ../neural-tape-audio/

# create a directory for contents
mkdir ../neural-tape-audio
# download and extract toy data
wget -P ../neural-tape-audio 'https://zenodo.org/record/8026272/files/neural-tape-audio_CHOWTAPE.tar'
tar -xzvf ../neural-tape-audio/neural-tape-audio_CHOWTAPE.tar -C ../neural-tape-audio/
# download and extract real data
wget -P ../neural-tape-audio 'https://zenodo.org/record/8026272/files/neural-tape-audio_AKAI.tar'
tar -xzvf ../neural-tape-audio/neural-tape-audio_AKAI.tar -C ../neural-tape-audio/

Optional: To generate target audio with CHOWTape, a VST instance of the plugin should be compiled. Check instructions in the corresponding repository.

USAGE

The folder scripts/ contains the various processing pipelines for interacting with the system, as well as a separate README.md with instructions.

CITATION

Cite the work as follows

@conference{mikkonen_neural_2023,
  title = {Neural Modeling of Magnetic Tape Recorders},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the {{International Conference}} on {{Digital Audio Effects}} ({{DAFx}})},
  author = {Mikkonen, Otto and Wright, Alec and Moliner, Eloi and V{\"a}lim{\"a}ki, Vesa},
  year = {2023},
  month = sep,
  address = {{Copenhagen, Denmark}}
}

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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