Why? To perform a detailed analysis of note onset types in a range of different musical conditions.
What?
No, each piece was recorded 12 times (i.e., 12 separate takes) each for 3 different musical conditions. The conditions represent different playing styles, and were chosen to span a wide range of realistic performance types. The following are definitions of the three recorded conditions:
For additional information please refer to the paper.
If you use the Virtuoso Strings in your research, feel free to cite this paper:
@article{tomczak2022annotation,
title={Annotation of Soft Onsets in String Ensemble Recordings},
author={Tomczak, Maciej and Li, Min Susan and Bradbury, Adrian and Elliott, Mark and Stables, Ryan and Witek, Maria and Goodman, Tom and Abdlkarim, Diar and Di Luca, Massimiliano and Wing, Alan and Hockman, Jason},
journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.08848},
year={2022}
}