Novelty Search Live

Novelty Search Live is a experimental open-source tool that helps musicians find musical inspiration in Ableton Live. It uses a evolutionary algorithm to continuously evolve new audio-clip and synth-parameter combinations, guided exclusively by Novelty Search. Finally, it takes the countless new musical ideas it has discovered, and generates a map with t-SNE which is interactively browsable. Read more: https://medium.com/@samim/musical-novelty-search-2177c2a249cc

Usage

After everything is setup and Ableton Live is open, run python noveltysearchlive.py from your console to start. You can tweak the following parameters via the command line:

--name (Song Name)
--waittime
--iterationtime
--populationsize
--crossoverrate
--mutationrate
--tournamentsize

And tweak many more settings inside the "noveltysearchlive.py" config section.

Requirements

ableton: https://www.ableton.com/
python: https://www.python.org/
pylive: https://github.com/ideoforms/pylive
argparse: https://docs.python.org/3/library/argparse.html
numpy: https://www.scipy.org/scipylib/download.html
deap: https://github.com/DEAP/deap
sklearn: http://scikit-learn.org/stable/install.html
matplotlib: https://matplotlib.org/faq/installing_faq.html
annoy: https://github.com/spotify/annoy

almost. just a

Hi,
tried it, but after getting through the installation I get when running it, or someone else might get

Ableton Live Novelty Search - Song Name: save/mysong
*** timed out waiting for server response
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "noveltysearchlive.py", line 69, in <module>
    set.scan(scan_devices = True,scan_clip_names = True,)
  File "/Users/raminsoleymani/Downloads/Novelty-Search-Live-master/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/live/set.py", line 590, in scan
    track_count = self.num_tracks
  File "/Users/raminsoleymani/Downloads/Novelty-Search-Live-master/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/live/set.py", line 319, in num_tracks
    return self.live.query("/live/tracks")[0]
IndexError: list index out of range

pylive requires the ableton live plugin (or whatever it's called) LiveOSC. pylive links to a project page, which is quite outdated. one needs LiveOSC2, which works for live 9:
https://github.com/stufisher/LiveOSC2

still I'm getting

  File "/Users/cooluser/Novelty-Search-Live-master/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/live/query.py", line 68, in __init__
    self.osc_server = liblo.Server(listen_port)
  File "src/liblo.pyx", line 602, in liblo.Server.__init__ (src/liblo.c:8305)
liblo.ServerError: server error 9904: cannot find free port

... but I guess I'm close. Do you have an idea what could go wrong with ableton or that python library?

for other people. under mac there might be more things that need to be installed. for example liblo with
brew install liblo

It should probably also noted that this works only in python 2.?

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