Chapter 9: Making Magenta Interact with Music Applications

1. A DAW will have more functions geared towards music production such as recording, audio, MIDI editing, effects and mastering, and song composition. A software synthesizer like FluidSynth will have less functionalities, but have the advantage of being lightweight and easy to use.

2. Most music software won't open MIDI ports by themselves, so to send sequences back and forth between them we have to manually open ports.
3. See the code in chapter_09_example_05.py in this chapter's code.
4. Because syncing two pieces of software that have desynced requires restarting them. A MIDI clock enables syncing once per beat.

5. Because Magenta Studio integrates with existing music production tools such as DAWs and doesn't require any technical knowledge, it makes AI-generated music available to a greater audience, which is ultimately...