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Re: Show HN: I trained a 125M model to autocomplete piano on-device

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Post by tom_vidal »

This sort of “autocomplete” is actually fundamental to how classical composers were trained.

For anyone interested, I’d highly recommend reading Robert Gjerdingen’s article Gebrauchs-Formulas. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259731561_Gebrauchs...

You can also listen to the transcript of four Russian composers, including Rachmaninoff, playing this pattern recognition and generation game at a dinner party in the late 1800’s: https://youtu.be/PlFPOWuwBHI?is=EKBK7QQkJs4MsTCU

Composers at the time could do this just by looking at sheet music and audiating, without using a piano.

Re: Show HN: I trained a 125M model to autocomplete piano on-device

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Post by elwell »

ghm2199 wrote: post #57

Interesting. I do feel letting a machine generating notes is taking the joy out of improvisation, is it not? I think one of the great, early, joys of learning a piano is gaining the following intuitions: The seemingly harder path of learning sheet is actually faster. Your mind _should_ learn to think in two dimensions Spatial — where fingers go — and Time — pitch and tempo – ** when learning. The _internalization_ of…

OP found a different source of joy: "I wanted the fun of working through the problem myself, rather than just implementing someone else’s research."

Re: Show HN: I trained a 125M model to autocomplete piano on-device

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Post by ghm2199 »

elwell wrote: post #63
ghm2199 wrote: post #57

Interesting. I do feel letting a machine generating notes is taking the joy out of improvisation, is it not? I think one of the great, early, joys of learning a piano is gaining the following intuitions: The seemingly harder path of learning sheet is actually faster. Your mind _should_ learn to think in two dimensions Spatial — where fingers go — and Time — pitch and tempo – ** when learning. The _internalization_ of…

OP found a different source of joy: "I wanted the fun of working through the problem myself, rather than just implementing someone else’s research."

Fair enough.

Re: Show HN: I trained a 125M model to autocomplete piano on-device

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Post by kennyadam »

Forgeties79 wrote: post #59
kennyadam wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is this HN? Aren't people supposed to tinker with tech for no reason other than seeing if they can? Is everything that involves a transformer now just AI BAD? Is that what the world has devolved into? Each side screaming "Orange Man Bad" and endless variations at each other?

>orange man bad You know, I was nodding along until you shoehorned that one in.

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Re: Show HN: I trained a 125M model to autocomplete piano on-device

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Post by altmanaltman »

heikkilevanto wrote: post #14

I would love something like that, except that I play the melody, and it produces proper 3-4 part accompaniment, preferably in good baroque style. Extra bonus if it could also write it into a file in a format suitable for music editing programs.

That is an incredibly hard challenge though. Creating the whole backing track (in any meaningful way other than just basic chords) from just melody will require an amazingly high number of highly subjective choices and random gen will not lead to good outcomes since our ears like intentional and artistical creativity in general.
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