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Break-the-Beat! Controllable MIDI-to-Drum Audio Synthesis

Chihiro Nagashima, Christian Simon, Junghyun Koo, Keisuke Toyama, Kin Wai Cheuk, Qiyu Wu, Shusuke Takahashi, Shuyang Cui, Woosung Choi, Yukara Ikemiya, Zachary Novack, Zhi Zhong

A fine-tuned text-to-audio model converts high-resolution drum MIDI into matching audio while adopting a reference timbre.

arxiv:2605.14555 v1 · 2026-05-14 · cs.SD · cs.AI

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our model generates high-quality drum audio that follows high-resolution drum MIDI, achieving strong performance across metrics of audio quality, rhythmic alignment, and beat continuity.

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The proposed content encoder and hybrid conditioning mechanism, when applied via fine-tuning to a pre-trained text-to-audio model, can effectively handle polyphonic percussive drum synthesis using the constructed paired dataset.

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Break-the-Beat! renders drum MIDI audio that matches the timbre of a reference clip by fine-tuning a text-to-audio model with a content encoder and hybrid conditioning on a new paired dataset.

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[1] INTRODUCTION In digital music production, drums play a foundational role in shap- ing the rhythm, energy, and overall character of a composition. Con- ventional workflows for creating expressive drum

[2] Break-the-Beat! Controllable MIDI-to-Drum Audio Synthesis 2026 · arXiv:2605.14555

[3] 1 shows the overview of our proposed method

[4] EXPERIMENTS 4.1. Data We train and evaluate our approach on two variations of the Groove MIDI Dataset (GMD)[30], which consists of 1059 unique human- performed MIDI drum sequences aligned with corresp 2048

[5] RESULTS our model’s key capabilities are evaluated in this section. 5.1. Temporal Granularity We train our proposed method with drum MIDI representations of different temporal resolutions. As expected

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