https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2006.07931/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30467328urn:hackerpapers:submission:2006.07931:30467328Fri, 25 Feb 2022 13:59:59 GMT<p>Show HN: Cloning a musical instrument from 16 seconds of audio</p><p>In 2020, Magenta released DDSP [1], a machine learning algorithm / python library which made it possible to generate good sounding instrument synthesizers from about 6-10 minutes of data. While working with DDSP for a project, we realised how it was actually quite hard to find 6-10 minute of clean recordings of monophonic instruments. In this project, we have combined the DDSP architecture with a domain adaptation technique from speech synthesis [2]. This domain adaptation technique works by pre-training our model on many different recordings from the Solos dataset [3] first and then…</p><p>185 points; 72 discussion replies on HN. <a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2006.07931/">Paper and source history</a>. A submission is not an endorsement.</p>eess.AS