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@Timzoid Thank you for your thoughts and feedback. I apologize for the delayed response. Not always on GitHub as you hopefully understand. You are welcome to post any of my MIDIs to your channel and you are welcome to create derivative works from it. My MIDIs that are posted on GitHub are licensed as CC-BY-NC-SA so whatever is within the scope of this license, you are welcome to do. Gang Stop is indeed a nice piece. It is a part of my MIDI datasets here: https://github.com/asigalov61/Tegridy-MIDI-Dataset/blob/master/Tegridy-Piano-CC-BY-NC-SA.zip All compositions in the above datasets were made with MuseNet. Some are continuations and some are pure MuseNet originals. I also miss MuseNet (which is why I created LAMC) because I was sure MuseNet would go down. I also have other very nice (IMHO) projects that I recommend you check out: https://github.com/asigalov61/Euterpe-X https://github.com/asigalov61/Lars-Ulrich-Transformer And if you need help with any of it or with LAMC, please let me know. I am always here to help. I am also not very good at programming. I barely made LAMC. I am too old for this new stuff, especially AI. When I was young I used to write in Pascal. Check this out: https://github.com/Tegridy-Code/LIFE This is my work from 1996 (lol) Anyways, feel free to write me here and I will try to respond ASAP. I do not have a public email right now (sorry about that) so I hope you will be ok with communicating here. Most sincerely, Alex. |
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Hi Alex, thanks for your response. I figured you were busy. That's totally understandable. I'll try Euterpe-X when my GitHub free time refreshes tomorrow. Probably wouldn't use the drums one, but one of my Timzart7 YouTube channel viewers might, and they are coming here in increasing numbers after seeing my tutorial, How to Use Los Angeles Music Composer. I discovered MuseNet about 3.5 months before it went down, even though I followed a few AI vlogs on GPT and other AI topics. On my third day of using it, I watched a few tutorials of it online and thought I could do better, and posted mine. In the next 3 months, while MuseNet was working, it got about 250 views. The video I made on your LAMC has about that after 4 days, Now my MuseNet tutorial has over 31,000 views! It exploded after MuseNet went down -- go figure -- probably from ChatGPT fever. I have notes in the Details and Comments that it is no longer working, but people still watch the tutorial. The comments section of my "Timzart7" YouTube channel, particularly my video announcement that MuseNet went down on Dec. 12, 2022, became a kind of hub for MuseNet viewers who missed it, and was there anything else out there that people could use, and now it's going to be about introducing LAMC, and as a showcase for my own work with it. Being first in with the LAMC tutorial, as I mentioned, views are already picking up, compared to when I first posted the MuseNet tutorial. However, there's a difference between something this tricky to use, and the attention brought by anything OpenAI does. But let's think before ChatGPT, MuseNet had an underutilization problem, even with OpenAI being a formidable little company. Your program, it's just too good to be used only by geeks who also happen to like composing a little music once in a while and notice it on GitHub. Like MuseNet, it could be very useful to composers in any style music, who get stuck, and just want to find the next phrase for a song. And it's fun for people like myself, who like composing by using phrases of generated music, instead of individual notes out of one's head, which are too often a rehash of what someone else composed anyway, or it's just not as interesting. I'm going to write a little more about that in another message. |
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@Timzoid I agree with you completely. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and for posting LAMC tutorials on your channel. LAMC and my other projects were specifically designed as composition tools for composers to use (basically MuseNet-style equivalents) so I am happy that people find it useful. Alex |
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I skimmed through the boilerplate, and didn't see anything on restrictions on use of music created by people like me, using the software. I posted two short pieces I did in the first days of using this, and also a tutorial video entitled How to Use Los Angeles Music Composer to my Timzart7 channel on YouTube.
My YouTube channel isn't even monetized, but if it were, would there be an issue posting my pieces created with your program?
With MuseNet, they wanted only a simple attribution to Christine Paine and the website, and a promise not to sell songs you made with MuseNet, and I'm guessing that had to do with OpenAI's contract for using a MIDI library from The Classical MIDI Archive and elsewhere, more than OpenAI wanting to make more money.
I sometimes wonder if that's the reason MuseNet went down, copyright issues, but it also could have just been a resources issue, and the "problem" of ChatGPT getting 200M users in the first two months, or whatever. MuseNet was spectacularly underutilized and underappreciated. I discovered it only in its last three months of existence.
And Alex, if you're reading this, although I once responded to your post on Reddit, I listened to your MuseNet pieces, and thought that Gang Stop and one other were great, even with the "flat affect," no tempo, accents, all notes the same volume, which MuseNet tended to do in all but the Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky and Chopin styles.
I would like to post Gang Stop on my channel and attribute it to you, of course, that you composed it on MuseNet, with your permission. I would re-work it in MIDI, give it accents and expression, maybe try different instrumentation, or try my hand at using the portamento tool in MIDI, which would be good for certain notes in the violin part.
I never did programming but took enough courses in it, starting when I was 17 and took FORTRAN in 1971. I hate it. As an early computer and PC user though, I have never encountered any piece of software like MuseNet, which was so simple to use and yet it could do so much. And now, I think your LAMC is so much better than the 15 things I've tried since MuseNet went down.
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