Hybrid ("vertical") layered resynthesis

After some of the discussion last week, here’s a different approach to the Hybrid/Layered resynthesis thread.

What this does it takes a corpus and splits it up into 4 layers. Two via HPSS and two via NMF. I then play back random combinations of them.

The results are surprisingly good, and believable!

For this corpus I’ve used a mix of percussive sounds (metal samples, waterphone, gamelan), so they all have quite similar spectromorphological contours, and generally speaking, odd harmonic structures, so the fusion of these just sound like imaginary combinations of the underlying materials.
I started off with a roughly 700mb corpus, which turned into 6.75GB after the batch processing (patch below), and then Max pleasantly informs me that my memory usage is actually double that:

Screenshot 2020-05-30 at 5.32.56 pm

(I guess this is that old thing where Max loads all buffers as 32bit regardless of their native format? @a.harker has a good work around for vanilla buffers, but I guess for polybuffer~ there’s not a suitable solution? (I’ll post a thread querying on the Max forum))

With only 1700ish samples I’m already starting to knock on the door of RAM limits, which is pretty crazy. I guess if latency weren’t an issue, I could do the HPSS in “real-time” on the source samples rather than pre-rendering them, but that wouldn’t really be possible with the NMF (or at least, not easily). BUT you know me, I have no time for latency…

I plan on doing another version of this where I analyze each layer/channel and then query based on some criteria. Initially I’m thinking purely pragmatic ones, like time centroid, and derivative of loudness, so the sounds have roughly a similar fade out (I used only short/medium-lengthed samples for this as things get real big real quick this way…).

What would be great is to then be able to query for a sample that could be made up of these individual layers and components (i.e. the closet match to my incoming audio would be an arbitrary combination of the available layers). For something like loudness, I could see doing some maths and choosing the n amount of samples that most closely sum up to the desired amount, but for other descriptors that gets really complicated.

I’ve not really used AudioGuide, so I have no idea how it does the layered stuff it can do, but does it just run permutations of the available options and choses the best match? Is something like that possible (in the future) with the TB2 stuff?


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I have used Alex’s buffers in a poly~ and build a very similar loading structure as for polybuffer~. They playback is then also in a poly. Give me a wink and I’ll extract that portion of my large patch.

Would be curious to see if it’s not too much a pain.

These days I try to avoid externals for “normal” stuff as much as possible, but with the era of “big sample libraries” looming, this would cut the available memory in half.

That was my reason as well, often loading 20000 sounds.

Everything is mono, as I’m spatializing the sounds into ambisonics afterwards.

First store this bit of code as ht_ibufplayer_poly_for_rod.maxpat


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this is the loading and playback portion


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Af few notes: I prefer working with sound file names instead of buffer indices. Therefore the coll.

I deferlow the loading process to make sure we get to the end of the list.

Let me know if you have questions.

Ah interesting, I didn’t realize there was an ibuffermulti~, which is kind of a pre-polybuffer~ polybuffer~. Shame that it only allows up to 4096 samples. I’m wondering if @a.harker did that because of 16/32-bit limits and such.

I’ll have a look through this.

I tend to use polybuffer~ indices since they generally refer to the same indices in an entrymatcher~ elsewhere, so I can just query and then playback by index without having to worry about names and such.

Alex lifted the 4096 limit upon my request last year.

Interesting. I’ll have a poke and see how to make it act more polybuffer~-esque for my use case(s).

edit:
Oh, that’s unfortunate. It’s not a “real” buffer~ that can be accessed elsewhere (i.e. via play~). I guess I can also use ibufplayer~ since it takes play~-like messages, but I may want to use other playback objects.

ibuffermulti~ makes multiple ibuffer~s and not buffer~s, so of course you can’t access these via play~ etc. I think it predates polybuffer~~ but I’m not 100% sure - I think I made it because I was using a poly~ to do the loading and there were some performance implications that I wanted to avoid.

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I was thinking about this again yesterday and I want to revisit this idea with my batch analysis stuff.

I’m thinking of keeping the end component count low due to memory limits and the sheer amount of combinations/permutations possible, but I wanted to bump this to get some thoughts on how to best do this.

Even though having an estimation of amount of nmf components via fluid.bufnnnsvd~ would be great, having a low amount of components that is consistent across all the files would make the plumbing and such more functional for the patch.

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So to reiterate the initial idea. It would be to take each individual sample and split it into four layers. At the moment I’ve done two via HPSS and two via NMF. This could be more or less layers and/or different types, but I’ve had good results with these algorithms.

For now I’m combining all of those into a single 4-channel buffer with the same name and duration as the original as this makes other stuff easier as well (playback/etc…).

This much is working so far.

Before I got sidetracked about how quickly I’ll run out of ram (thanks for the example patches @tutschku!), I was wondering how to best go about analyzing how layers might combine to be query-able.

On thinking about it this morning, I thought I can just fluid.bufcompose~ every possibel combination of layers to create accurate analyses of how these would sound together.

So if I have three samples (sample1, sample2, sample3) and I run them through the decomposition process, I’d then have twelve samples (sample1A, sample1B, sample1C, sample1D, sample2A, sample2B, etc…).

The brute force thing to do would be to analyze every combination/permutation of that (sample1A + sample2B, sample1A + sample3D, etc…). I could do that for every permutation except the combinations which form original samples (so no sample1A + sample1B since that would be the sum of HPSS).

Off the top of my head I don’t know how to calculate the combinatorics here, but I know enough to know that that will become a really really really big analysis set. (ca. 1700 samples, 4 layers each, every possible combination up to 4 simultaneous sounds).

AND

That only takes into consideration starting all the files at the same time. So having stuff where sample1A starts at 0 and sample3C starts at 120ms, is out of the question.

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So other than kind of spitballing verbose about the complexity of this, I wanted to see if there was some better way of pre-analyzing what or how possible combinations of sounds might work here.

Or if there is a way of figuring out how multiple layers of sounds might fuse together…without having to manually fuse them and (re)analyzing them (i.e. from loads of descriptors/statistics).