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A.I. Duet: A piano that responds to you

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Re: A.I. Duet: A piano that responds to you

#11
I played the A-section for Heart and Soul (the song from the movie "Big") and its response was enough to tell me it was not going to be playing actual duets.

I'd be interested in a version that has learned accompanying portions to many popular melodies. If I could play the right hand part of a piece and it played the left hand I'd be very impressed -- also this would actually be useful software for aspiring pianists.

Re: A.I. Duet: A piano that responds to you

#12
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I like the concept and the framing of the demo is really cool, but the actual music generated in response to me doing basic things like playing a blues riff or a pentatonic scale was usually just a repeat of some fragment of what I was playing. It felt like something that could be built using a basic heuristic...

Yeah, had the same impression

It seems it almost gets the concept of tone, but barely

And for some reason it worked on Firefox, but not Chrome (it doesn't even load for me)

Re: A.I. Duet: A piano that responds to you

#13
post #2

I like the concept and the framing of the demo is really cool, but the actual music generated in response to me doing basic things like playing a blues riff or a pentatonic scale was usually just a repeat of some fragment of what I was playing. It felt like something that could be built using a basic heuristic...

Could just be a limitation of the training resources available.

Re: A.I. Duet: A piano that responds to you

#14

To whoever implemented this AI: Can you actually play music yourself? Your AI can't. I tried to play “Satori Maiden” (link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0c9bea_thaM ), and your AI only replied with unmusical nonsense.

Go easy man. It's an "experiment" for a reason.

Re: A.I. Duet: A piano that responds to you

#15

To whoever implemented this AI: Can you actually play music yourself? Your AI can't. I tried to play “Satori Maiden” (link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0c9bea_thaM ), and your AI only replied with unmusical nonsense.

Go easy man. It's an "experiment" for a reason.

I'm opposed to this trend of trying to replace actual understanding of the problem at hand with massive amounts of computation. If you want to write a program that writes music, then learn how music is actually written first.

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@hellofunk: If you want the ML algorithm to actually learn how to write music, at the very least, the programmer must be able to express the goal of producing musical sequences of notes.

Re: A.I. Duet: A piano that responds to you

#16
As an experiment I think this is well done. It's fun to mash the keys and see what happens. If there was a feedback loop to register if the user was happy or displeased with the results via facial recognition or other input with expanded training data it could become quite interesting I think.

Thanks for this!

Re: A.I. Duet: A piano that responds to you

#17
post #2

I like the concept and the framing of the demo is really cool, but the actual music generated in response to me doing basic things like playing a blues riff or a pentatonic scale was usually just a repeat of some fragment of what I was playing. It felt like something that could be built using a basic heuristic...

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Re: A.I. Duet: A piano that responds to you

#18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Go easy man. It's an "experiment" for a reason.

I'm opposed to this trend of trying to replace actual understanding of the problem at hand with massive amounts of computation. If you want to write a program that writes music, then learn how music is actually written first. --- @hellofunk: If you want the ML algorithm to actually learn how to write music, at the very least, the programmer must be able to express the goal of producing musical sequences of notes.

It's opensource bro. Translate your problem to a requirement and impress us.

Re: A.I. Duet: A piano that responds to you

#19
My immediate reaction was to try and confuse it, so I played "Roll Call" from the Thomas show (kids are obsessed !) It's a bit chromatic so I thought it would have trouble, which it did.

Next, I tried putzing around on the white keys but made sure to never hit a F or F#. I wanted to see if it would try and guess which key I was playing in, C or G major. It seemed to guess C most of the time, though one time I tried hinting at G by starting out on G, it got confused and starting playing both F and F#.

I was just clicking with a mouse, so rhythm was hard to judge but overall this thing did a really bad job "complimenting" my playing!

Re: A.I. Duet: A piano that responds to you

#20
post #2

I like the concept and the framing of the demo is really cool, but the actual music generated in response to me doing basic things like playing a blues riff or a pentatonic scale was usually just a repeat of some fragment of what I was playing. It felt like something that could be built using a basic heuristic...

Could just be a limitation of the training resources available.

I don't think there's a practical limitation on training resources with respect to Music. Maybe the authors didn't get into any of the rubric, but it's certainly out there. Gobs of it.
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