Abundant Music: An online procedural music generator

Engines, Libraries and Tools Tools Discussion
#21

I’ll join the chorus and say I am very impressed!

we have procedural graphics, game play and now music all that is left is sound effects and you can pretty much “generate” a game give a random seed :stuck_out_tongue:

#22

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As generation of the audio is faster than the playback, there is no reason not to generate an infinite audio feed!

#23

Generated gameplay is still left though… :smiley:

#24

We already have generated sound effects :slight_smile: (sfxr)

#25

Where is my procedural generated logic and story?! ;D

#26

Story is already generated :stuck_out_tongue: (Starbound)

Logic? Hmm…

BTW: I’ve now listened to all these example songs … 19 is my favourite :slight_smile: (The link number, not the filenamenumber)

#27

I have improved the system to output better counterpoint when there are few voices active. Also, I used a “modern song structure” for all these songs, which gives more familiar music organization perhaps…
Here are 40 more if you can’t get enough of machine music :slight_smile:

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40

#28

Oh cmon… just hand us out the generator :smiley:
Or simply a site, where you can press a button saying “GENERAAAATE” or “GRANAAAADE” and then generate the music and play it… is easy when you use html5. (And have a music generator)

#29

I am working on a site where you write a song name and a seed is generated from that and you get a MIDI or can play it in the browser (with webaudio perhaps?) with some fancy visualization.

#30

Also, (I don’t want to force you to do that) could you please release the jar or whatever you use to generate the audio? :slight_smile: So we get music generated :slight_smile:

#31

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 :slight_smile:

#32

Added: Youtube video playlist with some handpicked songs

#33

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

#34

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.

#35

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.

#36

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

#37

I just got to this thread. And…
THIS IS AMAZING :o :o :o

#38

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)

#39

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

#40

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.