Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music

[Janek Warchoł]

2011/3/3 Graham Percival <address@hidden>:
> Hi all,
>
> My PhD research has swept me into the direction of automatic music
> performance.  In particular, generating realistic-sounding audio
> from sheet music.  In particular, going from a .ly file with a
> single staff of violin music to a wav file that sounds like it was
> performed by a violinist with 1-2 years of experience.
>
> For example, this:
>
> \relative c' {
>  \set Staff.instrumentName = "violin-1"
>  \key d \major
>  \time 4 = 72
>
>  a4\f d fis8-. a-. r4
>  d16( cis b a) g4 \breathe e8\p( g) fis4
> }
>
> becomes this:
>  http://percival-music.ca/audio/example-input.wav.mp3
> with no manual tweaking, human input, or recorded audio samples.
>
> Many more examples, audio, video, and theory, on my website:
>  http://percival-music.ca/vivi.html

Thanks for sharing this! I'm looking forward to hearing Vivi perform
on a $1000 violin with a skill of a violinist with 5 years of
experience :)
Meanwhile, there is a mistake in the example code (in your mail and on
the website) - there should be \tempo 4 = 96 instead of \time 4 = 72.

cheers,
Janek