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Re: Anybody else playing with GPT4 and Lilypond?
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Kenneth Wolcott |
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Re: Anybody else playing with GPT4 and Lilypond? |
Date: |
Wed, 29 Mar 2023 17:18:07 -0700 |
I'm currently using "ChatGPT Mar 14 Version."
Ken
On Wed, Mar 29, 2023 at 5:15 PM Saul Tobin <saul.james.tobin@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> A practical follow up question: what is currently the largest repertoire of
> publicly available Lilypond scores? Ideally, something like the complete Bach
> chorales or Mozart piano sonatas.
>
> On Wed, Mar 29, 2023 at 3:43 PM Saul Tobin <saul.james.tobin@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I've seen some examples of other people succeeding in getting ChatGPT with
>> GPT4 to compose simple music in other text based music formats. I've had
>> limited success getting it to output Lilypond code. It is able to correctly
>> structure the code with a score block, nested contexts, and appropriately
>> named variables, and bar checks at the end of each measure. It seems to
>> struggle to create rhythms that fit within the time signature beyond
>> extremely simple cases. It also seems to struggle a lot to understand what
>> octave pitches will be in when using relative mode.
>>
>> It also seems to have a lot of trouble keeping track of the relationship
>> between notes entered in different simultaneous expressions. Just asking it
>> to repeat back which notes appear in each voice on each beat, GPT4
>> frequently gives stubbornly incorrect answers about the music it generated.
>> This makes it very difficult to improve its output by giving feedback.
>>
>> I'm curious whether anybody else has tried playing with this. I have to
>> imagine that GPT4 has the potential to produce higher quality Lilypond
>> output, given some of the other impressive things it can do. Perhaps it
>> needs to be provided with a large volume of musical repertoire in Lilypond
>> format.
- Anybody else playing with GPT4 and Lilypond?, Saul Tobin, 2023/03/29
- Re: Anybody else playing with GPT4 and Lilypond?, Nate, 2023/03/29
- Re: Anybody else playing with GPT4 and Lilypond?, Kenneth Wolcott, 2023/03/29
- Re: Anybody else playing with GPT4 and Lilypond?, Saul Tobin, 2023/03/29
- Re: Anybody else playing with GPT4 and Lilypond?, Curt McDowell, 2023/03/29
- Re: Anybody else playing with GPT4 and Lilypond?, Mike Blackstock, 2023/03/30