Issue No.02 - April-June (2006 vol.13)
Simon Lui , Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Andrew Horner , Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Lydia Ayers , Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MMUL.2006.35
The mobile phone industry has a problem with conversion from MIDI to SP-MIDI, which handles specific polyphonic limits. Simple specific polyphonic reduction algorithms, such as note-stealing, may lose or interrupt important musical information. Therefore, we present a phrase-stealing algorithm that drops the perceptually least important notes and preserves the most important phrases. Tests show that listeners reacted positively to this solution.
MIDI, SP-MIDI, transcoding, mobile phones, ring tones, phrase stealing, polyphony reduction
Simon Lui, Andrew Horner, Lydia Ayers, "MIDI to SP-MIDI Transcoding Using Phrase Stealing", IEEE MultiMedia, vol.13, no. 2, pp. 52-59, April-June 2006, doi:10.1109/MMUL.2006.35