cs.SDSep 23, 2026

MIDIBack: Harmony-Aware Singing Pitch Correction via Joint Vocal-Accompaniment Symbolic Modeling

Authors: Joaquim Cavalcante, Yicheng Gu, Adriel Trajano, Yuri de Malheiros, Thais Gaudencio

Abstract

Automatic pitch correction (APC) requires distinguishing the unintended intonation errors from expressive pitch variation. Existing systems either lack explicit harmonic modeling, as vocal-only methods do, or do not directly use the note-level polyphonic context. Therefore, we propose MIDIBack, a note-level APC framework that jointly models the vocal and accompaniment events in a shared OctupleMIDI sequence. We evaluate MIDIBack under 6 note corruption regimes, including global outshift, learned note-dependent detuning, uniform perturbations, and their combinations. The resulting model achieves 78.6% overall raw pitch accuracy (RPA), and 81.5% under combined global outshift and learned detuning. Removing the accompaniment conditioning reduces RPA from 81.5% to 35.8% in outshift, showing the effectiveness of accompaniment context. Case studies on accompaniment modulation further illustrate that vocal note predictions

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