Are there models that generare MIDI instead of audio?
IMO this would be much more useful.
IMO this would be much more useful.
https://openai.com/index/musenet
Also, Synfire is a somewhat difficult to grok DAW designed around algorithmically generating midi motif as building blocks for longer pieces.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrtJjEiWBtI
It's not particularly well-known but it's been around for many years.
I'd link to some specific examples (easy to Google or search on GitHub) but I can't recall which models were more successful than others.
Having taken a class on Bach style composition in college - I think a rules engine with a random seed would certainly be much more successful at generating Bach style compositions than any neural network-based model ever will be.
And here is an interesting patent that Sid Meier and Jeff Briggs filed for their work on C.P.U. Bach: System for real-time music composition and synthesis https://patents.google.com/patent/US5496962A/en
I'll leave the ROM search up to whoever is interested :)
But there are lots of applications for music which parallel the applications of ai generated images - things that are more commercial in nature. The media is functional, for use cases such as commercials, or social media type videos, where people just need something for the ambiance and don't want to deal with copyright or anything like that.
Furthermore, the sound itself is crucial, so perfect calibration of a perfect sound is definitely a part of what can be clearly be sought (when you do not want to leave that to a secondary human process in the workflow).
The problem with LLMs for music (as currently implemented, not inherently) is people keep training them on complete tracks. They're very obviously being trained by people who are not musicians.
> Who are we to discern what is or isn't music?
Hopefully, people with good judgement, potentially capable of evaluating products.
The poster is clearly meaning "good music".
> Do you have the same opinion of text or code generated by or with the assistance of
There you go: the same way we note that some NN generated text is missing crucial qualities (e.g. intelligence), or that some NN generated images are missing crucial qualities (e.g. direction), you can surely admit the possibility that some NN generated sound may be missing relevant crucial qualities to the vetting of a good critic.
Well no, Feyerabend let himself be called an "anarchist" but clearly there is a "more scientific" and "less scientific" - they cannot give you a lecturing appointment at the LSE or elsewhere to just shrug.
> the listener ... as justification
As justification to what? A producer makes products for different markets: people may sell bars of sugar with appetizers and synthetic flavours, that does not make the product remotely similar to healthy food.
If you're generating the entire thing at once rather than stems or note data, you just have an elevator music generator which inexorably tends toward the lowest common denominator.
No one argued that one isn't of higher or lower quality. They're both music, as is evident by your choice of words. Processed foods are foods, not great for you, but they're still foods.
> The [original] poster is clearly meaning "good music".
All that really matters is whether users like what the generator generates