Thank you :) On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 4:26 PM Iain Duncan <[email protected]> wrote:
> Congrats David! thanks for sharing. :-) > > On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 1:25 PM David O'Toole <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Greetings, fellow computer music enthusiasts! >> >> I'm pleased to announce the 1.7 release of my free musical concatenative >> synthesis, remixing, and beat-jamming machine known as SchemeMosaic, with a >> number of new features and improvements. SchemeMosaic is implemented partly >> in Emacs Lisp and partly in S7 Scheme, and uses the Snd editor to do its >> processing while GNU Emacs handles the user interface (and other things >> besides.) >> >> Recently while perusing the CMU AI Archive, I found a public domain >> neural network simulator written in Scheme. With a few changes it works >> great in S7 and I have successfully used it to train several interesting >> neural networks that are now included with SchemeMosaic, along with tools >> to generate your own networks (not yet documented, but soon.) >> >> Improvements in SchemeMosaic 1.7 include: >> >> - Increased resolution in spectral analysis. >> >> - Percussion-3, a neural network (NN) which attempts to classify a >> sound as a kick, snare, or cymbal. >> >> - X-1 through X-6, NN rhythm generators trained on different sets >> of hip hop and dance loops (using the Percussion-3 net to detect >> the beats.) In the Neural Network Jam Wizard, you can choose a variety of >> parameters for beat generation and use the Looper to save your >> experimentations for further chopping and screwing in the Chopper Wizard, >> or for use with external programs. >> >> - Beatbox-3, (experimental) which can attempt to >> resynthesize beatboxing (mouth drumming sounds) into quantized drum >> events using WAV samples of your choice. You can choose the >> quantization factor and even resynthesize using Mosaic databases (not >> included with the main distribution.) >> >> - More "Wizards", i.e. custom screens to help with common tasks. >> >> - The Beat Slicer wizard can detect beats and slice them to individual >> files for use with the Neural Network Jam Wizard, or other software such as >> Hydrogen or LMMS. (I'm planning a drumkit exporter that will work with >> both.) It can also speed up and slow down loops without altering the pitch, >> although in some cases this does result in distortion. It works better on >> some loops than others. >> >> - Snd can run on a different machine (or in the cloud!) via TRAMP. This >> is experimental and not 100% of everything works remotely yet. >> >> - Bugfixes. >> >> Much more to come! >> >> Check out the newest demo video of SchemeMosaic: >> >> - YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW9OhtNc5LA >> - Xelf.me: http://xelf.me/scheme-mosaic-beatbox-demo.mkv >> >> I would like to invite other Snd enthusiasts to give it a shot! It should >> work easily on GNU/Linux based systems, but at present the Windows version >> is a work in progress and there might be issues. I'm working with a Windows >> user to iron out the bugs and will update the site as things happen. There >> is also a Mac OSX version in the works. >> >> As always, the project home page is: >> >> - http://xelf.me/scheme-mosaic.html >> >> You can chat with myself and some other folks interested in Emacs and >> Lisp in audio and music, on Freenode IRC's #emsig channel. >> >> I've also compiled a bunch of sounds from the last year's worth of >> experimentation with SchemeMosaic. It's in roughly chronological order and >> runs nearly an hour in length. Here is the MP3 file: >> http://xelf.me/omnibus-3.mp3 The new neural network stuff is all at the >> end. >> >> I hope you've enjoyed my update, and I hope you enjoy the sounds. >> >> Thanks again to Bill Schottstaedt and the Snd community for a wonderful >> system :) I've never had so much fun programming. Sometimes I shake the >> walls of my house with Snd, and I just giggle. You could call it sound >> therapy. >> >> --David >> _______________________________________________ >> Cmdist mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://cm-mail.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/cmdist >> >
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