[CM] SchemeMosaic 1.7

[Iain Duncan]

Congrats David! thanks for sharing. :-)

On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 1:25 PM David O'Toole <deeteeoh1138 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Greetings, fellow computer music enthusiasts!
>
> I'm pleased to announce the 1.7 release of my free musical concatenative
> synthesis, remixing, and beat-jamming machine known as SchemeMosaic, with a
> number of new features and improvements. SchemeMosaic is implemented partly
> in Emacs Lisp and partly in S7 Scheme, and uses the Snd editor to do its
> processing while GNU Emacs handles the user interface (and other things
> besides.)
>
> Recently while perusing the CMU AI Archive, I found a public domain neural
> network simulator written in Scheme. With a few changes it works great in
> S7 and I have successfully used it to train several interesting neural
> networks that are now included with SchemeMosaic, along with tools to
> generate your own networks (not yet documented, but soon.)
>
> Improvements in SchemeMosaic 1.7 include:
>
>   - Increased resolution in spectral analysis.
>
>   - Percussion-3, a neural network (NN) which attempts to classify a sound
> as a kick, snare, or cymbal.
>
>   - X-1 through X-6, NN rhythm generators trained on different sets of hip
> hop and dance loops (using the Percussion-3 net to detect the beats.) In
> the Neural Network Jam Wizard, you can choose a variety of parameters for
> beat generation and use the Looper to save your experimentations for
> further chopping and screwing in the Chopper Wizard, or for use with
> external programs.
>
>   - Beatbox-3, (experimental) which can attempt to resynthesize beatboxing
> (mouth drumming sounds) into quantized drum events using WAV samples of
> your choice. You can choose the quantization factor and even resynthesize
> using Mosaic databases (not included with the main distribution.)
>
>  - More "Wizards", i.e. custom screens to help with common tasks.
>
>   - The Beat Slicer wizard can detect beats and slice them to individual
> files for use with the Neural Network Jam Wizard, or other software such as
> Hydrogen or LMMS. (I'm planning a drumkit exporter that will work with
> both.) It can also speed up and slow down loops without altering the pitch,
> although in some cases this does result in distortion. It works better on
> some loops than others.
>
>  - Snd can run on a different machine (or in the cloud!) via TRAMP. This
> is experimental and not 100% of everything works remotely yet.
>
>  - Bugfixes.
>
> Much more to come!
>
> Check out the newest demo video of SchemeMosaic:
>
>  - YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW9OhtNc5LA
>  - Xelf.me: http://xelf.me/scheme-mosaic-beatbox-demo.mkv
>
> I would like to invite other Snd enthusiasts to give it a shot! It should
> work easily on GNU/Linux based systems, but at present the Windows version
> is a work in progress and there might be issues. I'm working with a Windows
> user to iron out the bugs and will update the site as things happen. There
> is also a Mac OSX version in the works.
>
> As always, the project home page is:
>
>  - http://xelf.me/scheme-mosaic.html
>
> You can chat with myself and some other folks interested in Emacs and Lisp
> in audio and music, on Freenode IRC's #emsig channel.
>
> I've also compiled a bunch of sounds from the last year's worth of
> experimentation with SchemeMosaic. It's in roughly chronological order and
> runs nearly an hour in length. Here is the MP3 file:
> http://xelf.me/omnibus-3.mp3 The new neural network stuff is all at the
> end.
>
> I hope you've enjoyed my update, and I hope you enjoy the sounds.
>
> Thanks again to Bill Schottstaedt and the Snd community for a wonderful
> system :) I've never had so much fun programming. Sometimes I shake the
> walls of my house with Snd, and I just giggle. You could call it sound
> therapy.
>
> --David
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