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I like the game up until 7 or 8 notes, but it keeps adding note.

I couldn't find a setting to freeze the difficulty where it's comfortable and where the melody can still be construed to make sense.

When adding more notes, it breaks the flow and turn a training for pitch practicing into a memory game for rain man, even more so when we make a mistake and must redo the melody partially.

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Hmm - I was hoping that the Practice Mode would cover this, but I think there's probably some room to add an option where you can freeze the difficulty level - I'll see if I can add this later in the evening.

The "construed melody" is a harder problem. I've been playing around with the idea of using a markov model or even borrowing what CPU Bach did to try to create more coherent melodies over time.

Thanks for the feedback!

Transformers are nice. You can train a very minimal network that can output reasonable sequences very easily. They won't be high quality, or too pretty, but they will "make sense" way more than randomness and (usually) change keys in a coherent way.

Hey viraptor! I haven't even thought about using transformers but that sounds like a great idea. The current generator is just a standard random walk across the major/minor intervals and could definitely use some TLC!

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