Timbre Classification Experiments
This repository contains datasets and scripts for timbre classification experiments conducted as part of my Ph.D. thesis. Two datasets were used. The first one concentrates on drum/percussion sounds while the other generalises to orchestral sounds. See the relevant iPython notebooks to re-run experiments.

The orchestral sample is quite large, there is a script that pulls N number samples randomly in the folder, for performing smaller analyses.

Credits
Sound samples have been taken from the following sources:-

9th Wonder Kit - https://soundpacks.com/free-sound-packs/9th-wonder-drum-kit/

Jahlil Beats Kit (Hipstrumentals.com) - http://www.hipstrumentals.com/2014/05/jahlil-beats-sound-kit-soundkit/

Music Radar Drum Samples - http://cdn.mos.musicradar.com/audio/samples/musicradar-drum-samples.zip

Vintage Drum Samples 24-bit - https://www.patreon.com/posts/samples-from-71-14944919

Orchestral Samples - http://www.philharmonia.co.uk/explore/sound_samples