Music generation using Algebra, presented as web MIDI shop

6 pointsposted 5 days ago
by midi_finder

4 Comments

vegadw

14 minutes ago

This feels like a joke, right? Short, generative midi clips, for real world money? I thought at first maybe the shop thing was like a visual gag, but, no, it's actually going to stripe.

There's a million better generative MIDI tools out there, and the vast vast majority are free. I can't fathom making this and not being embarrassed, let alone anyone actually spending money on the site.

I would normally reserve such harsh criticism but as sporkl points out, this seems to be some LLM generated drive-by money-grab mess.

I do worry that maybe OP is like a teenager and I'm coming off overly harsh, but even if that's the case, then OP needs to learn what actually makes a product differentiate itself and how to actually appeal to a target audience. This ain't it chief, as a musician, I find it actively offensive.

sporkl

34 minutes ago

Would be curious to know how algebraic music theory is being applied here. Overall this seems pretty basic; no real voice leading, or even chords with more than 2 notes in them. Algebraic music theory runs pretty deep and I'm not seeing much of it applied here. I honestly can't imagine paying $7 for a two-voice, repetitive 40s long midi file.

Seems potentially LLM'd, account is new and I couldn't find any other sign of existence of the creator. They've also submitted this 4 times in the past month.

hank1931

an hour ago

On my iPhone, when I press Audition, it looks like it is playing something, but I do not hear anything coming through the speaker.

midi_finder

5 days ago

Creator here! This is a new service. Let me know what you'd like to see in it!

Claro