samim23/novelty-search-live

Musical Novelty Search: Evolutionary Algorithms + Ableton Live

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