Designing & Building An Ai Musical Device

About the project

The After Eight Step is an Arduino and Max powered 8 step sequencer with modern machine learning functionality. Using Markov Chains, it can generate musical accompaniment based on any sequence of notes!

Project info

Difficulty: Moderate

Platforms: Arduino

Estimated time: 7 days

License: GNU General Public License, version 3 or later (GPL3+)

Story


The long-awaited AI Sequencer video!! Watch me as I explain a synth DIY project I've been working on for a good part of lockdown, with issues ranging from literal explosions to the limits of mathematics. Features original music created solely using the After Eight Step and Ableton Live throughout. 

The After Eight Step is an Arduino and Max powered 8 step sequencer with modern machine learning functionality. Using Markov Chains, it can generate musical accompaniment based on any sequence of notes! This seriously took a lot of work, and I'm really proud of this whole endeavour. 

There's a tonne more information about this on my blog at chariscat.wordpress.com and in previous videos on this channel. If you want to have a play around in the max patch yourself, it's available on my GitHub at github.com/CharisCat

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CharisCat

Musician, video producer, and general tinkerer from Devon in the UK.

   

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