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Re:International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) by ShadowBanThis01 on Wednesday May 17, 2023 @04:45PM (#35981058)
What I'd love to do is use OCR on a bunch of these and be able to freely use the pieces by rendering them with MIDI. There are pieces I want to use in my short films or whatever, but all the recordings are copyrighted even if the music is now public-domain.
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Re:International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) by dharma1 on Wednesday May 17, 2023 @05:41PM (#35981622)
Would sound pretty boring OCRd but I wonder if a trained ML model could do a decent job of score -> expressive midi (2.0) performance
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Re:International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) by mappu on Wednesday May 17, 2023 @05:26PM (#35981456)
A lot goes into a specific recorded performance, I think it's unrealistic to expect a film-worthy performance out of a MIDI renderer.
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Re:International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) by bandika on Wednesday May 17, 2023 @05:34PM (#35981543)
Unrealistic is an understatement, to be honest...
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Re:International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) by ShadowBanThis01 on Wednesday May 17, 2023 @06:07PM (#35981864)
Sure, but for little indie projects I think it would suffice. And there are some great string libraries out there.
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Re:International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) by sporkl on Wednesday May 17, 2023 @06:14PM (#35981931)
Music OCR is in general in a pretty terrible state these days (I’ve tried most of the options on the market). I’ve heard good things about soundslice[1] though, but I haven’t had the occasion to try it yet.

[1]: https://www.soundslice.com/sheet-music-scanner/

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Re:International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) by ShadowBanThis01 on Wednesday May 17, 2023 @07:29PM (#35982528)
Thanks, but ugh: It's Web-based.
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Re:International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) by adrianh on Thursday May 18, 2023 @05:01AM (#35985578)
Hello, I lead the creation of the Soundslice music scanning tool! My biased opinion is that we get much better results than other tools, even though it's still in beta and doesn't support the full range of notations we aim to support.

We're using machine learning instead of old-school image processing techniques (which are fast but can be very brittle).

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Re:International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) by ink_13 on Wednesday May 17, 2023 @10:14PM (#35983471)
You'd have an easier time grabbing pieces with Lilypond engraving files available and converting those to MIDI: https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.23/Documentation/notation/creati...
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