DeepDrummer : Generating Drum Loops using Deep Learning and a Human in the Loop

2020/08/10 by Alain, Guillaume, Chevalier-Boisvert, Maxime, Osterrath, Frederic +1 · 1 citation
#FOS: Computer and information sciences #Machine Learning (cs.LG) #Machine Learning (stat.ML)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2008.04391

Abstract

DeepDrummer is a drum loop generation tool that uses active learning to learn the preferences (or current artistic intentions) of a human user from a small number of interactions. The principal goal of this tool is to enable an efficient exploration of new musical ideas. We train a deep neural network classifier on audio data and show how it can be used as the core component of a system that generates drum loops based on few prior beliefs as to how these loops should be structured. We aim to build a system that can converge to meaningful results even with a limited number of interactions with the user. This property enables our method to be used from a cold start situation (no pre-existing dataset), or starting from a collection of audio samples provided by the user. In a proof of concept study with 25 participants, we empirically demonstrate that DeepDrummer is able to converge towards the preference of our subjects after a small number of interactions.

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