MIDI-Draw: Sketching to Control Melody Generation
Tashi Namgyal Peter Flach Raul Santos-Rodriguez
We describe a proof-of-principle implementation of a system for drawing
melodies that abstracts away from a note-level input representation via melodic
contours. The aim is to allow users to express their musical intentions without
requiring prior knowledge of how notes fit together melodiously. Current
approaches to controllable melody generation often require users to choose
parameters that are static across a whole sequence, via buttons or sliders. In
contrast, our method allows users to quickly specify how parameters should
change over time by drawing a contour.