MusicAnalyser

Music Analyser

Music Analyser is an application designed to provide a technical analysis of the musical elements present in an audio track. Through the use of audio processing and DSP, key technical features of the music - the notes, chords and key signature - are extracted in real-time and displayed intuitively to the user. While the analysis produced is not guaranteed to be completely accurate, Music Analyser aims to serve as a tool to help musicians and music enthusiasts in their quest to transcribe or to better understand a piece of music.

Features

• Analyse any MP3 or WAV audio file for musical features in real-time with playback.
• Musical analysis comprises note detection and chord/key signature prediction.
• A modular and fully customisable DSP pipeline for performing musical analysis.
• Optimised analysis presets using various DSP algorithms (FFT, HPS, CQT).
• Tempo control to slow the audio to up to 20% of original speed.
• Ability to record audio from a capture device to subsequently playback and analyse.
• A draggable peak filter to highlight any frequency in the audio playback.
• A spectrogram viewer to present an overview of the analysed track over time.

Installation

• Download the latest release of Music Analyser from the releases section.
• Extract the zip to a location of your choice.
• Open the extracted folder and run ‘MusicAnalyser.exe’.

Usage

The User Guide can be found here.

For a more in depth breakdown of the app’s design and functionality, the academic write up for this project can be found here.

License

This project is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPLv3 license.