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Hands-On Music Generation with Magenta

By : Alexandre DuBreuil
Book Image

Hands-On Music Generation with Magenta

By: Alexandre DuBreuil

Overview of this book

The importance of machine learning (ML) in art is growing at a rapid pace due to recent advancements in the field, and Magenta is at the forefront of this innovation. With this book, you’ll follow a hands-on approach to using ML models for music generation, learning how to integrate them into an existing music production workflow. Complete with practical examples and explanations of the theoretical background required to understand the underlying technologies, this book is the perfect starting point to begin exploring music generation. The book will help you learn how to use the models in Magenta for generating percussion sequences, monophonic and polyphonic melodies in MIDI, and instrument sounds in raw audio. Through practical examples and in-depth explanations, you’ll understand ML models such as RNNs, VAEs, and GANs. Using this knowledge, you’ll create and train your own models for advanced music generation use cases, along with preparing new datasets. Finally, you’ll get to grips with integrating Magenta with other technologies, such as digital audio workstations (DAWs), and using Magenta.js to distribute music generation apps in the browser. By the end of this book, you'll be well-versed with Magenta and have developed the skills you need to use ML models for music generation in your own style.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
1
Section 1: Introduction to Artwork Generation
3
Section 2: Music Generation with Machine Learning
8
Section 3: Training, Learning, and Generating a Specific Style
11
Section 4: Making Your Models Interact with Other Applications

Further reading

  • MusicVAE: Creating a palette for musical scores with machine learning: Magenta's team blog post on MusicVAE, explaining in more detail what we've seen in this chapter (magenta.tensorflow.org/music-vae)
  • A Hierarchical Latent Vector Model for Learning Long-Term Structure in Music: Magenta's team paper on MusicVAE, a very approachable and interesting read (arxiv.org/abs/1803.05428)
  • GrooVAE: Generating and Controlling Expressive Drum Performances: Magenta's team blog post on GrooveVAE, explaining in more detail what we've seen in this chapter (magenta.tensorflow.org/groovae)
  • Learning to Groove with Inverse Sequence Transformations: Magenta's team paper on GrooVAE, very approachable and interesting read (arxiv.org/abs/1905.06118)
  • Groove MIDI Dataset: The dataset used for the GrooVAE training, composed of 13.6 hours of aligned MIDI and...