Rindik rod sound separation with spectral subtraction method

Abstract

Rindik is a traditional music instrument originated from Bali that consists of 11 bamboo rods and played by a person hitting the bamboo rod with a rubber mallet in each player's hands. Documentation of Rindik songs with automatic music transcription work is easier to do by separating it first. To overcome that challenge, two Rindik rods sound were separated using the spectral subtraction method. The noise spectrum is the spectrum of a single rod sound that needs to be muffled. The resulting audio is the other single rod sound and vice versa to get both single rod sound. The data consisted of single rod hit sound recordings of 11 single rod sound and 55 combinations of two-rods sounds being hit at the same time. The performance of the spectral subtraction method in separating Rindik sound was measured with MSE and SIR and also heard the noise exists in the separated audio signal. The experiment demonstrated a state-of-the-art performance consists of spectral subtraction with squared noise average magnitude with average MSE value 0.0126 and average SIR value 55.68 dB.