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Fundamental Frequency Tracking and Applications to Musical Signal Analysis

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Analysis, Synthesis, and Perception of Musical Sounds

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The constant-Q spectral transform (Brown, 1991) can be used to analyze musical signals and can be effectively employed as a front end for measurements of fundamental frequency. This transform also has advantages for the analysis of musical signals over the conventional discrete Fourier transform, or FFT in its fast-Fouriertransform implementation. Because the FFT computes frequency components on a linear scale with a particular fixed resolution or bandwidth (frequency spacing between components), it frequently results in too little resolution for low musical frequencies and better resolution than needed at high frequencies.

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BROWN, J.C. (2007). Fundamental Frequency Tracking and Applications to Musical Signal Analysis. In: Beauchamp, J.W. (eds) Analysis, Synthesis, and Perception of Musical Sounds. Modern Acoustics and Signal Processing. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-32576-7_2

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