RAVE: Realtime Audio Variational autoEncoder

Official implementation of RAVE: A variational autoencoder for fast and high-quality neural audio synthesis (article link) by Antoine Caillon and Philippe Esling.

If you use RAVE as a part of a music performance or installation, be sure to cite either this repository or the article !

Installation

RAVE needs python 3.9. Install the dependencies using

pip install -r requirements.txt

Detailed instructions to setup a training station for this project are available here.

Preprocessing

RAVE comes with two command line utilities, resample and duration. resample allows to pre-process (silence removal, loudness normalization) and augment (compression) an entire directory of audio files (.mp3, .aiff, .opus, .wav, .aac). duration prints out the total duration of a .wav folder.

Training

Both RAVE and the prior model are available in this repo. For most users we recommand to use the cli_helper.py script, since it will generate a set of instructions allowing the training and export of both RAVE and the prior model on a specific dataset.

python cli_helper.py

However, if you want to customize even more your training, you can use the provided train_{rave, prior}.py and export_{rave, prior}.py scripts manually.

Reconstructing audio

Once trained, you can reconstruct an entire folder containing wav files using

python reconstruct.py --ckpt /path/to/checkpoint --wav-folder /path/to/wav/folder

You can also export RAVE to a torchscript file using export_rave.py and use the encode and decode methods on tensors.

Realtime usage

UPDATE

If you want to use the realtime mode, you should update your dependencies !

pip install -r requirements.txt

RAVE and the prior model can be used in realtime on live audio streams, allowing creative interactions with both models.

nn~

RAVE is compatible with the nn~ max/msp and PureData external.

An audio example of the prior sampling patch is available in the docs/ folder.

RAVE vst

You can also use RAVE as a VST audio plugin using the RAVE vst !

Discussion

If you have questions, want to share your experience with RAVE or share musical pieces done with the model, you can use the Discussion tab !