I am a classical musician. For various reasons, I have used a music writing program (Finale ---not composing, just copying!) and as a proof-reading (listening?) tool there is a playback option. This produces mathematically perfect translations of notes on the page to sounds, it even imitates a piano well (and a violin, sort of). But the …
I am a classical musician. For various reasons, I have used a music writing program (Finale ---not composing, just copying!) and as a proof-reading (listening?) tool there is a playback option. This produces mathematically perfect translations of notes on the page to sounds, it even imitates a piano well (and a violin, sort of). But the fact that it is note perfect down to the fractions of a second makes it so maddening to listen to that I stopped using it. The tiny little modulations of sound and time that a human performer adds to a live performance are a universe apart from the soulless reproduction of exact notes at exact times. I would expect that if someone is gearing up AI to compose music (no doubt several someones are) the results will be similar, maybe worse with ,say, a mashup up of Haydn and Gershwin or Beethoven and Bernstein. I am very grateful that I am retired and would not have to face playing something like that on a job.
I am a classical musician. For various reasons, I have used a music writing program (Finale ---not composing, just copying!) and as a proof-reading (listening?) tool there is a playback option. This produces mathematically perfect translations of notes on the page to sounds, it even imitates a piano well (and a violin, sort of). But the fact that it is note perfect down to the fractions of a second makes it so maddening to listen to that I stopped using it. The tiny little modulations of sound and time that a human performer adds to a live performance are a universe apart from the soulless reproduction of exact notes at exact times. I would expect that if someone is gearing up AI to compose music (no doubt several someones are) the results will be similar, maybe worse with ,say, a mashup up of Haydn and Gershwin or Beethoven and Bernstein. I am very grateful that I am retired and would not have to face playing something like that on a job.