Tarsos

In its current form Tarsos is a collection of classes to create, compare and process pitch-frequency data using histograms. It has an intuitive user interface and contains a couple of command line programs. Two pure JAVA pitch trackers (YIN and MPM) are also included.

To see Tarsos in action you can check the Tarsos screencast. More detailed information, news and updates can be found on the Tarsos website

To give Tarsos a try you can start Tarsos using JAVA WebStart or download the executable Tarsos JAR-file. A JAVA 5 runtime is required, JAVA 6 preferred. An API reference for Tarsos is also available.

Credits

Tarsos is developed at University College Ghent, Faculty of Music

http://cons.hogent.be

Tarsos uses a number of open source libraries:

• Gervill: a software sound synthesizer, supports the MIDI Tuning Standard. API.
• Jave: a wrapper for ffmpeg.
• Apache Commons Math: a library of lightweight, self-contained mathematics and statistics components API.
• Java-getopt: a port of the GNU getopt family of functions. API.
• Ptplot a 2D plotting library. API.
• JTransforms the first, open source, multithreaded FFT library written in pure Java.