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Aren't the LLMs also pretty decent code reviewers? Sure, not perfect, but the suggestion that we should use code review as the replacement for the coding challenge 'because AI' seems a bit misplaced...

appreciate your position but mine is that everything out of suno sounds like copycat dog water.

> Most software businesses don’t need a bunch of Picassos, they need house painters with spray guns and buckets of off-white.

This is so good and yet so painful.

I feel this one a lot. Working from the office these days feels like working from home from the office.

Phaser with Claude / LLM to help?

Well, not all MIDI sounds bad. Have a listen to the Addictive Drummer demos for example. It can sound pretty damn good / real. Still, your point is well taken. MIDI guitar emulations for example are still pretty dang bad. One wonders if this is because a guitar is a more continuous vs discrete instrument compared to drums. Even with all of MIDI’s rich parameters, it’s pretty tough to describe pick angle, materials, etc.

Also, I wonder if there will be a natural “backlash” against generic AI music and towards stuff that has more human imperfection. But then again even the AI will learn to imitate the imperfections so what exactly will make a piece more human in the long run?

related: If this is how they work, why doesn't google offer a private service to allow publishers to have content indexed while still protected?

yo this rocks.

wow.

Ha! I didn't see your comment when I just posted mine. Strange that we'd go there

Question: How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

Answer: 1

Trouble with this sort of thing is the subjectivity of 'what chord is this?', taking into account inversions and the like. CMaj7 has C / E / G / B? Who says this isn't Emin6 with the 6th in the bass? It'll depend on the way it's heard and its context within the song, but many approaches can impact this sort of thing.

EDIT: I wrote this without carefully reading the article (oops!). Author does a great job with the "adjustments"...I suspect adjusting to relative minor covers a huge amount of these issues, and the author throws in mixolydian for good measure! There will always be edge cases, secondary dominants, modulations, blah blah blah, but I suspect adjusting to include relative minors handles the vast majority of popular music.

It's wild that one of the best e-shopping techniques is now googling "___ review reddit". We find ourselves playing a strange whack-a-mole game of trust amongst organizations.

Paper Audio is my side project for building a community for musicians to share demos, including functionality to reach voice speakers like Alexa and Google Home. This post is a write up about some of the technical choices of the project.

I make something like indie pop rock. Somewhat sadly, my favorite song of mine is now 10 years old:

https://calvinflegal.bandcamp.com/track/when-you-were-around.

I more recently put a song on Spotify. I'm somewhat happy with it, but the vocal lacks confidence vs the first one imo:

https://open.spotify.com/track/6XlWm24ERDdgmK4Z6Px5TD?si=vkN...

Having critiqued myself as above, my next one will have a more confident vocal. Here's a tiny clip:

https://t.co/8qcaYKbT4v?amp=1

SongMarkers is a tool for annotating moments in songs. It's a useful tool for learning guitar solos, but you can use it for whatever you'd like! Stack is React and Phoenix (Elixir).

Create markers in time, then jump to them and / or loop them. Great for learning sections while playing an instrument since it can operate hands-free. Desktop Chrome or Firefox only for now, since that's what the Spotify web playback API supports.

If you're an iOS user, I highly recommend the "Music Memos" Apple App that nobody talks about. Pretty great. Even better if you were to get something like the Rode iXY to go with it!

This is a really great answer! This is also a big part of why different instruments read different clefs.

I didn't mean personal offense in my reply. "Stop pretending making music is clicking on and off in little boxes", is the specific portion I was referring to, but more generally I just aim to promote inclusiveness.

The timing of this post is funny, as just this week I launched a little ear training game built with React an Tone.js: https://www.notetuning.com/

I feel the need to address some of the typical HN poison floating around. I've got a very expensive music education. It doesn't make me better than an "Ableton clicker". Music is open to anybody, and is defined by what moves one, not by the mechanism of its creation. America really tends to treat it as some exclusive art club (beyond required elementary school classes), and that's really just wrong.

This is a little ear training game I built with React, Tone.js, MobX, and D3. Enjoy!