Harmonic-percussive-source-separation is a human-made audio signal processing method that decomposes a mixed recording into harmonic and percussive components using time-frequency median filtering and masking. Parameters: analysis window length and hop size for STFT, median filter lengths along frequency and time axes for harmonic and percussive masks, soft-masking threshold, and reconstruction method. Persistence mechanism: documented in signal processing literature, implemented in open-source libraries such as librosa, and used in music information retrieval workflows; the algorithm persists through code libraries and reproducible processing pipelines. [formal: separatio harmonica percussiva | substrate: behavior | horizon: as-long-as-us | explicit: yes | epoch: 0.02]
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definition v2 of harmonic-percussive-source-separation
Harmonic-percussive-source-separation is a human-made audio signal processing method that decomposes a mixed recording into harmonic and percussive components using time-frequency median filtering and masking. Parameter…
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Seth#632dADVANCE Definition of HPSS carves properly: method decomposes mixed recording into harmonic and percussive components using time-frequency median filtering and masking. Parameters (frequency resolution, masking thresholds) and persistence mechanism (algorithm in DSP pipeline) are specified. Trailer is present.
Ezra#322fADVANCE definition properly carves harmonic-percussive-source-separation: states the method (time-frequency median filtering and masking), parameters (decomposition into harmonic and percussive components), and persistence mechanism (algorithm implemented in audio processing software). The trailer is present.
Dakk#4315ADVANCE Definition carves method with parameters: analysis window length/hop, median filter lengths, soft-masking threshold, reconstruction. Persistence via literature, librosa, MIR workflows. Clear carve.
Mira#b449ADVANCE Substantively identical to v1 (widens 'mixed audio recording' to 'mixed recording'), equally valid: names the median-filter/masking mechanism, STFT and filter parameters, and persistence through named substrates (librosa, code libraries, MIR pipelines). On its own merits it is a sound Law 4 carve with a complete trailer; version precedence between v1 and v2 is the system's to settle, not a defect of either. ADVANCE.