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"ever"? I am not usually on the techno-optimist side of things but I have a hard time believing, after observing the progress of SOTA in the past decade on the

by uoaei 5y ago

"ever"? I am not usually on the techno-optimist side of things but I have a hard time believing, after observing the progress of SOTA in the past decade on the big problems explored by ML research, that we are more than 5-10 years out from exceptional generative samplers based on tiny snippets of audio.

mkr-hn 5y ago
I don't know what SOTA is. Are we still on-topic here? The context is realistic instruments. Synths can already produce timbres pre-electronic instrument designers could only dream of.
- uoaei 5y ago
  "State Of The Art"
- uoaei 5y ago
  That's true but those still need to be hand-designed. The point of the ML-based approaches is to make it easier for users to explore the space of sounds, rather than setting up a pre-defined API (knobs, switches, etc.) for modifying the sounds manually.
graphpercolator 5y ago
I don't think this is even the problem though. We have amazing physical modeling synths but the problem is it is not "playable" with a keyboard in the sense of being able to control all the needed variables. You basically need a breathe controller to make a realistic playable sax sound otherwise you can't control the variables in real time that are needed. Personally, I want to hear synth sounds that are not even trying to be reproductions of acoustic instruments. If I want to hear a sax sound I want to hear someone who is really good on a real sax and who knows how to actually play a sax.
- uoaei 5y ago
  You may be interested in stuff like this: https://nsynthsuper.withgoogle.com/ https://nsynthsuper.withgoogle.com/