Bach to the Future – Humanising Music with Neural Nets (2019)

TLDR: They use a small LSTM model to predict the velocity and delay that a human player might have for each piano keypress based on the MIDI notes.

Coolest thing I’ve read this year, acknowledging it’s from a few years back. A number of interesting lessons, in terms of both machine learning and music.<p>I hope we don’t replace human performers, even if and when we can. Live performance rather than recordings needs to be prioritized by listeners. And acoustic, non-autotuned only!

Do you really need or want a NN for this?<p>Wouldn&#x27;t it be better to parametrize the agility of the various fingers, wrist and arms and then use a deterministic algorithm with a sprinkle of randomness to calculate how delayed the various notes are? This way you could even simulate someone getting tired throughout the performance!

&gt; Bach to the Future – Humanising Music with Neural Nets<p>Poor taste in title, IMO.