The WAV file has become a standard PC audio file format for everything from system and game sounds to CD quality audio. Also known as pulse code modulation (PCM) or waveform audio. The WAV file is an uncompressed audio file that stores information about the files number of tracks, sample rate, bit depth and whether it's mono or stereo.
Sample Sound Files Free
- A waveform audio file developed by Microsoft and IBM and released in 1991. Below you will find a selection of sample.wav audio files for you to download. On the right there are some details about the file such as its size so you can best decide which one will fit your needs.
- Free Drum Samples. With over 450,000 downloads and counting, 99 Drum Samples I is the most popular 99Sounds sound library released to date. Five years after the original, we are releasing 99 Drum Samples II, our new drum sample library that follows the footsteps of its predecessor. 99 Drum Samples is a two-part collection of free drum samples.
One `holy grail' of automatic sound analysis is music transcription, which could be defined as trying to convert a real recording of music into an equivalent MIDI representation. As it happens, a large amount of pop music has already been converted into MIDI - not automatically, but by fans and hobbyists. These MIDI replicas are an intriguing information source for music research, as discussed in our paper on MIDI alignment.
This page brings together a few examples of actual musical recordings along with their MIDI equivalents, both as MIDI files and synthesized into audio. We also provide hand-marked labels for the major segment breaks for this music, for some of both the original and MIDI-synthesized audio.
| Track | Artist | Original audio | Transcript of original | MIDI | MIDI audio | Transcript of MIDI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Africa | Toto | africa-toto.wav (13M) | africa-toto.phn | africa-toto.mid | africa-toto-midi.wav | africa-toto-midi.phn |
| Around the World | ATC | around_the_world-atc.wav (9M) | around_the_world-atc.phn | around_the_world-atc.mid | around_the_world-atc-midi.wav | around_the_world-atc-midi.phn |
| I ran so far away | Flock of Seagulls | i_ran_so_far_away-flock_of_seagulls.wav (13M) | i_ran_so_far_away-flock_of_seagulls.phn | i_ran_so_far_away-flock_of_seagulls.mid | i_ran_so_far_away-flock_of_seagulls-midi.wav | i_ran_so_far_away-flock_of_seagulls-midi.phn |
| Temple of Love | Sisters of Mercy | temple_of_love-sisters_of_mercy.wav (21M) | temple_of_love-sisters_of_mercy.phn | temple_of_love-sisters_of_mercy.mid | temple_of_love-sisters_of_mercy-midi.wav | (not available) |
| Beautiful Life | Ace of Base | beautiful_life-ace_of_base.wav (9.5M) | (not available) | beautiful_life-ace_of_base.mid | beautiful_life-ace_of_base-midi.wav | beautiful_life-ace_of_base-midi.phn |
| Don't Speak | No Doubt | dont_speak-no_doubt.wav (11M) | (not available) | dont_speak-no_doubt.mid | dont_speak-no_doubt-midi.wav | dont_speak-no_doubt-midi.phn |
| Mambo No. 5 | Lou Bega | mambo_no_5-lou_bega.wav (9.6M) | (not available) | mambo_no_5-lou_bega.mid | mambo_no_5-lou_bega-midi.wav | mambo_no_5-lou_bega-midi.phn |
| Evangeline | Matthew Sweet | evangeline-matthew_sweet.wav (13M) | evangeline-matthew_sweet.phn | (not available) | (not available) | (not available) |
Notes on data
The audio files (*.wav) are in MS-WAVE format, downsampled to 22kHz mono from the original CD tracks.
The transcript files (*.phn) are text files whereeach line has the format
..where the samples are at 22kHz, so you convert those numbers to time in seconds by dividing them by 22050.
Notes on sources
The track selection and MIDI file processing was done by Rob Turetsky. The manual transcriptions were created by Angel Umpierre during an internship in Summer 2003. Thanks to them both.
Acknowledgment
This material is based in part upon work supported by the NationalScience Foundation under Grant No. IIS-0238301. Any opinions, findingsand conclusions or recomendations expressed in this material are thoseof the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of theNational Science Foundation (NSF).
Last updated: $Date: 2004/03/14 05:41:01 $Dan Ellis <dpwe@ee.columbia.edu>