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Re: Pink Trombone

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Post by veli_joza »

pieterk wrote: post #17
modeless wrote: post #8

In a similar vein: http://www.adultswim.com/etcetera/choir/ The most interesting thing about this one is the chord progressions it generates.

You’re right, the progressions are beautiful! Do you know how they are generated?

Very impressive indeed. I dug around and found his tweet: "uses a neural network I trained on choral pieces to generate the harmonization for your melody"

[0] https://twitter.com/daviddotli/status/1075068713936830464

Re: Pink Trombone

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Post by hannasanarion »

smlacy wrote: post #9

Would it be possible to use Reinforcement Learning + Speech Recognition to turn this thing into a real voice synthesizer?

No need. This thing is already a voice synthesizer. This is how modern synthesizers work, more or less: by generating a sine wave and then modifying it in the same way as the vocal tract does.

Re: Pink Trombone

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Post by quacked »

veli_joza wrote: post #21
pieterk wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You’re right, the progressions are beautiful! Do you know how they are generated?

Very impressive indeed. I dug around and found his tweet: "uses a neural network I trained on choral pieces to generate the harmonization for your melody" [0] https://twitter.com/daviddotli/status/1075068713936830464

Man, shoot. I compose a bit myself and am really into vocal harmony and I was hoping that he'd hard-coded some theory rules.

I did notice that it seems to vary with the past 3 notes you've moved to. If you continue repeating the same pattern of jumps among the scale, you can replicate the chords the voices slide to.

Re: Pink Trombone

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Post by mmjaa »

Thats nice and everything but until I have a hardware version where I can just switch a button on and do this and that, I'm not really going to be truly satisfied. Please hardware'ify.

Re: Pink Trombone

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Post by mmjaa »

Digit-Al wrote: post #19

Is the author aware of the other meaning of "pink trombone"?[1] [1] https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pink%20tromb...

I'm fairly sure there is no other meaning than the one to which you refer, so its perhaps more likely that you are missing the risqué point being made by assuming the prude levels are higher than you might think. A lot of the folks who make these kinds of hacks, are perfectly fine with the obscure, obscene, perverse nature of their naming of things ... Those of the anthropological inclination may decide that, in fact, an obscene name for something like this is a requisite.

Re: Pink Trombone

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Post by smlacy »

hannasanarion wrote: post #23
smlacy wrote: post #9

Would it be possible to use Reinforcement Learning + Speech Recognition to turn this thing into a real voice synthesizer?

No need. This thing is already a voice synthesizer. This is how modern synthesizers work, more or less: by generating a sine wave and then modifying it in the same way as the vocal tract does.

I meant "text to speech engine" then I guess.
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