MAPS piano database

Description

MAPS, standing for MIDI Aligned Piano Sounds, is a piano sound database dedicated to research on multi-F0 estimation and automatic transcription:

Nine settings of different pianos and recording conditions were used. Four categories of sounds are provided:

• isolated notes and monophonic sounds
• random chords
• usual chords
• pieces of music

Quality

MAPS is composed of about 31 GB of CD-quality recordings in .wav format. High quality audio is obtained by means of Virtual Piano softwares and a Yamaha Disklavier.

Source

Valentin Emiya (Telecom ParisTech, 2008)

Ground Truth Annotation

The ground truth is provided for all sounds, in MIDI and text formats.

The audio was generated from the ground truth in order to ensure the accuracy of the annotation.

Features

Copyright Remarks

MAPS is freely released with a Creative Commons license. (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/fr/deed.en_US)

Citation

Multipitch estimation of piano sounds using a new probabilistic spectral smoothness principle, V. Emiya, R. Badeau, B. David, IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, 2010.

Transcription automatique de la musique de piano, V. Emiya, PhD Thesis, Telecom ParisTech, 2008.

External Links

http://www.tsi.telecom-paristech.fr/aao/en/2010/07/08/maps-database-a-piano-database-for-multipitch-estimation-and-automatic-transcription-of-music/

http://service.tsi.telecom-paristech.fr/cgi-bin/user-service/subscribe.cgi?ident=maps&form=&license=1