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Re:Pink Trombone by veli_joza on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @01:50PM (#18913737)
Very impressive indeed. I dug around and found his tweet: "uses a neural network I trained on choral pieces to generate the harmonization for your melody"

[0] https://twitter.com/daviddotli/status/1075068713936830464

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Re:Pink Trombone by quacked on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @03:10PM (#18914547)
Man, shoot. I compose a bit myself and am really into vocal harmony and I was hoping that he'd hard-coded some theory rules.

I did notice that it seems to vary with the past 3 notes you've moved to. If you continue repeating the same pattern of jumps among the scale, you can replicate the chords the voices slide to.

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Re:Pink Trombone by abrichr on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @12:23AM (#18918456)
> I compose a bit myself and am really into vocal harmony and I was hoping that he'd hard-coded some theory rules.

Would you find this useful? Is this not already available somewhere? Sounds like a fun project!

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Re:Pink Trombone by quacked on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @11:26AM (#18922181)
Yeah, I think I'd find it useful- I'd love to be able to ape a few of the tricks that the four voices use to slide to pleasing chords. The music theory "rules" are certainly available, but only in the same sense that the rules of calculus are available somewhere.

Either way I agree, definitely a fun project.

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