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My immediate reaction was to try and confuse it, so I played "Roll Call" from the Thomas show (kids are obsessed !) It's a bit chromatic so I thought it would have trouble, which it did.

Next, I tried putzing around on the white keys but made sure to never hit a F or F#. I wanted to see if it would try and guess which key I was playing in, C or G major. It seemed to guess C most of the time, though one time I tried hinting at G by starting out on G, it got confused and starting playing both F and F#.

I was just clicking with a mouse, so rhythm was hard to judge but overall this thing did a really bad job "complimenting" my playing!



You can use your keyboard, the middle row maps to the white keys and the upper row maps to black keys. Works better than a mouse for tempo, IMO.


Are these standard keys for some other piece of music software?

I keep getting confused because I'm so used to the old-style tracker keys (I keep hitting J for Bb and getting B, which isn't helping my C minor improv). Also one octave isn't great, lag is killing the rhythm, and it keeps not waiting for me to finish.

Neat idea though.

(I'm curious to know whether the training set for the version shown in the demo is the same as for the live web version, as the demo sounded way better than anything I'm getting out of it - though obviously they would have cherrypicked the results for the video.)


It seems to be the same keyboard mapping that Reason uses: https://youtu.be/7maQ1zjvb-M?t=28




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