ENST-Drums: an extensive audio-visual database for drum signals processing
Olivier Gillet and Gaël Richard
GET / ENST, CNRS LTCI, 37 rue Dareau, 75014 Paris, France
PDF of the ISMIR'06 paper describing the database
Database content
The ENST-Drums database is a large and varied research database for automatic drum transcription and processing:
- Three professional drummers specialized in different music genres were recorded.
- Total duration of audio material recorded per drummer is around 75 minutes.
- Each drummer played his own drum kit.
- Each sequence used either sticks, rods, brushes or mallets to increase the diversity of drum sounds.
- The drum kits themselves are varied, ranging from a small, portable, kit with two toms and 2 cymbals, suitable for jazz and latin music ; to a larger rock drum set with 4 toms and 5 cymbals.
Each sequence is recorded on 8 individual audio channels, is filmed from two angles, and is fully annotated
Samples
Here are three sample videos (here in half-size - originals are 720x576), for the Disco phrase, medium tempo, low complexity:
Drummer 1, Angle 1 (AVI, XviD encoded, 4Mb)
Drummer 2, Angle 2 (AVI, XviD encoded, 3.1Mb)
Drummer 3, Angle 1 (AVI, XviD encoded, 7.2Mb)
Public subset
A large part of ENST-Drums is publicly available at diffusion cost under some conditions. These conditions include:
- The use and exploitation of the database should be limited to research purposes. No commercial use is possible.
- Any document describing a research work where ENST-Drums was used should include a reference to ENST-Drums and to the paper Olivier Gillet and Gaël Richard. ENST-Drums: an extensive audio-visual database for drum signals processing, In Proc of ISMIR'06, Victoria, Canada, 2006.
How to download?
- Read the User Licence : User licence (in English) or alternatively in French
- Download ENST-Drums (I HAVE READ AND ACCEPTED THE TERMS OF THE USER LICENCE)
Acknowledgements
We would like to thank:
- The 3 drummers: Louis Cavé, Bertrand Clouard and Frédéric Rottier.
- E. Thiévon (author) and Play Music Publishing (publisher) for the background accompaniment sequences.
The authors wish to acknowledge the support of the French ministry of research (ACI-MusicDiscover project) and of the European Commission under the FP6-027026-K-SPACE contract.