As a sometimes composer, the thing that makes me most sad about this stuff is it's all computer or no computer. Deep learning with symbolic stuff is still in it

As a sometimes composer, the thing that makes me most sad about this stuff is it's all computer or no computer. Deep learning with symbolic stuff is still in it's infancy, so I don't expect to really mix this with hand-composed stuff anytime soon. As far as I understand it as a layman, the way the input is compressed for learning is also how it's fed the sample, so there's no way to "pay more attention" to the piece your augmenting than the pieces in the training data.