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Re:Generating MIDI Music with GPT-2 by 8bitsrule on Sunday April 26, 2020 @12:46AM (#22984516)
Probably should have left the title alone. There's no such thing as 'MIDI music'. MIDI is a communications protocol to transfer encoded performance data between electronic sources and sinks.

Algorithmic performance data is a thing, but generally not very musical. There've been a couple of exceptions.

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Re:Generating MIDI Music with GPT-2 by h-cobordism on Sunday April 26, 2020 @01:58AM (#22984894)
> There's no such thing as 'MIDI music'. MIDI is a communications protocol to transfer encoded performance data between electronic sources and sinks.

Why can't I just as easily say that

> There's no such thing as 'sheet music'. Sheets are a communications protocol to transfer encoded performance data between human sources and sinks.

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Re:Generating MIDI Music with GPT-2 by teraflop on Sunday April 26, 2020 @01:05AM (#22984626)
The .mid file format is also part of the official MIDI standard. Since that's the format that's ultimately being generated, I don't see what's incorrect or misleading about describing it as "MIDI music".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIDI#Standard_files

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