Abundant Music: An online procedural music generator

[Sickan]

In the future, people are going to compete about who can write the best music/novel/movie/game generator, instead of who can make the best music/novel/movie/game.

Cheers

[krasse]

Added: Youtube video playlist with some handpicked songs

[Best Username Ever]

I can't watch any of the videos. How does it it work? How much human involvement does it take to create a song?

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[krasse]

The songs in the mp3s and videos have all been generated with just a single seed (an integer). Human involvement: almost none

For the tool, I want to be able to change sub-seeds so you can keep the overall structure and just change certain aspects of the song.

[Best Username Ever]

That's impressive. Since I don't have any code or applet to play around with to try to figure out how the magic trick works, I will have to speculate about it. On first impression, it seems like the first few songs are unique to each other. I wonder how much "creativity" it is capable of.

[krasse]

That's impressive. Since I don't have any code or applet to play around with to try to figure out how the magic trick works, I will have to speculate about it. On first impression, it seems like the first few songs are unique to each other. I wonder how much "creativity" it is capable of.

It is basically just a set of constraints and structure templates plus some reasonable randomization on all levels

[Jimmt]

I just got to this thread. And...
THIS IS AMAZING

[Roquen]

Random food-for-thought: I've always wanted to play with using Markov chains to generate music (this isn't a very original thought BTW)

[Screem]

Wow, this is amazing! I'd love to include music created from this in games.

[krasse]

Random food-for-thought: I've always wanted to play with using Markov chains to generate music (this isn't a very original thought BTW)

Many parts of the current implementation use Markov chains. Harmony/chord progression is one such part, but it is also combined with a "almost maximum" likelihood algorithm.

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[Roquen]

Interesting.  What order are the chains?

[krasse]

Interesting.  What order are the chains?

The harmony has two kinds: static and dynamic. The progressions are somewhat based on this book/thesis but also contains tricks/hints I've read about in harmony/music books

[krasse]

Added another video showing the new filter effects feature and the 3D visualization:

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/Rcc3QUzWZds?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;start=" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/Rcc3QUzWZds?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;start=</a>

[ra4king]

Ok give it to me NAAOO.

[krasse]

Ok give it to me NAAOO.

Are you the new gavvenooor in kallifooonia?

[ra4king]

YES. AND
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/59MN-CX_rMQ?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;start=" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/59MN-CX_rMQ?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;start=</a>

[krasse]

Do you want my clothes, my boots, and my motorcycle too?

[krasse]

I have been working on an online editor for some time.

Here is a video that shows the current interface (uses webGL and jQuery UI):
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/Uw9qf9mRAbI?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;start=" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/Uw9qf9mRAbI?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;start=</a>

I'll put it online as soon I can make it run in all major browsers (and have found a suitable dedicated server )

[ra4king]

I'm truly in awe at how you can generate such *really really really* good musical scores randomly....

[krasse]

Thanks!
I hope that you will find the editor useful when I finally get it up and running.

[Best Username Ever]

The output is pretty impressive. What are your plans for developing this?

[krasse]

The output is pretty impressive. What are your plans for developing this?

The first step is to make it available through a website (like in the video) and just soak up any feedback and improve it. This is happening pretty soon.

Then I want to see it integrated into a game somehow. Java/Android/libgdx or C#/Unity perhaps. AS3 is also an alternative, but Flash is dying right? . It's a shame, I just started to like it

[Best Username Ever]

Are you planning on making it free and open source? I don't think a website alone would provide you with feedback or adoption nearly as fast.

[krasse]

Are you planning on making it free and open source? I don't think a website alone would provide you with feedback or adoption nearly as fast.

I don't know. I'll start with the website and see how it turns out.

[jonjava]

How's this project coming along? :D

[ra4king]

Oh yes I really want an update to this!

[krasse]

The development is almost complete for a first test.
I used it for my music in LD25 (jam, link to post-jam version), and I found it quite sufficient. It will be available for the public during LD26 so I am discussing and thinking about server solutions at the moment

I also have a devlog at TIGSource now where I have posted some updates.
Summary of updates: Added custom harmonic rythms + optimization

I am looking forward to opening it up to the public and listen to the songs that you produce

[krasse]

The website is probably going online for a first test next week

I have ported the server to linux instead and feeling happy for that decision. Linux is much better and cooler for servers + it is cheaper

[jonjava]

Can't wait!

[krasse]

The server is temporarily online!

Abundant Music

Some known issues:

• Some mp3/ogg renders are missing instruments (they are available in the midi file so I blame the midi synth and the soundfonts ). Will look closer at this
• The tutorials and "terms of use" are WIP

In this initial stage, I might have to take the server down due to crashes etc. but I'll do my best to keep it running when I'm awake