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I've spent days on this problem and the hard part is not the music theory. Even Moonlight Sonata will sound dinky if you are playing it with sin waves. Generati
by nbulka 6y ago
I've spent days on this problem and the hard part is not the music theory. Even Moonlight Sonata will sound dinky if you are playing it with sin waves. Generating an interesting synth sound is at least as hard as generating an interesting melody.
If anyone has any good psychoacoustic resources, I'd be all ears.
Melody is quickly becoming secondary to sound design in modern music, for better or worse.
- rch 6y agoHere's some Magenta-generated music played through a Moog One[!]: https://soundcloud.com/zndx/20201102-01-415v2 https://soundcloud.com/zndx/20201102-01-415v2 I think it would be great to set up a studio with a few modern analog synths 'in the loop' for automated training. [!] recorded through a Tascam 688 I found at a thrift store.
- nbulka 6y agoFor sure! I've been putting random magenta drum and melody generations through this free synth Vital ( https://vital.audio/ https://vital.audio/ ) Second step is choose a lead preset based on random letter generation (whatever is closest). (I believe this is the hard part as far as generation goes ... but there are patterns to oscillator presets) Third step is import the generated MIDI into your DAW like Logic or Ableton. Fourth, pick a key and quantize the notes. Finally pick a pad and match the bass notes. I'll generate one right now ... all AI/randomized except for the design of the preset. Be back in 5 minutes.
- nbulka 6y agohttps://soundcloud.com/nicholasbulka/random-magenta https://soundcloud.com/nicholasbulka/random-magenta lol, if this is interesting to anyone let me know and I'll put together a yt video.
- bambax 6y agoOP's examples all use generated waves, but tone.js can use samples that sound pretty realistic and can be much more pleasant to listen to IMHO.