Talking Drums: Generating drum grooves with neural networks
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2017-06-30 v1 Multimedia
Neural and Evolutionary Computing
Abstract
Presented is a method of generating a full drum kit part for a provided kick-drum sequence. A sequence to sequence neural network model used in natural language translation was adopted to encode multiple musical styles and an online survey was developed to test different techniques for sampling the output of the softmax function. The strongest results were found using a sampling technique that drew from the three most probable outputs at each subdivision of the drum pattern but the consistency of output was found to be heavily dependent on style.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1706.09558,
title = {Talking Drums: Generating drum grooves with neural networks},
author = {P. Hutchings},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1706.09558},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
Proceedings of the First International Conference on Deep Learning and Music, Anchorage, US, May, 2017 (arXiv:1706.08675v1 [cs.NE])