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Hands-On Music Generation with Magenta

You're reading from   Hands-On Music Generation with Magenta Explore the role of deep learning in music generation and assisted music composition

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2020
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ISBN-13 9781838824419
Length 360 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Introduction to Artwork Generation
2. Introduction to Magenta and Generative Art FREE CHAPTER 3. Section 2: Music Generation with Machine Learning
4. Generating Drum Sequences with the Drums RNN 5. Generating Polyphonic Melodies 6. Latent Space Interpolation with MusicVAE 7. Audio Generation with NSynth and GANSynth 8. Section 3: Training, Learning, and Generating a Specific Style
9. Data Preparation for Training 10. Training Magenta Models 11. Section 4: Making Your Models Interact with Other Applications
12. Magenta in the Browser with Magenta.js 13. Making Magenta Interact with Music Applications 14. Assessments 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Installing the music software and synthesizers

During the course of this book, we'll be handling MIDI and audio files. Handling the MIDI files requires specific software that you should install now since you'll need it for the entirety of this book.

Installing the FluidSynth software synthesizer

A software synthesizer is a piece of software that will play incoming MIDI notes or MIDI files with virtual instruments from sound banks (called SoundFont) or by synthesizing audio using waveforms. We will need a software synthesizer to play the notes that are generated by our models.

For this book, we'll be using FluidSynth, a powerful and cross-platform software synth available on the command line. We'll go through...

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