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How HN took it
8 positive, 17 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 5 critical, out of 30 comments about the project. Thread score +0.11.
Idea: 4 for, 3 againstPerformance: 2 for, 1 againstExecution: 1 for, 1 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Impressive timbre results and interesting idea
From 3 comments
Impressive. This is really cool. To my ear, some of the synthesized results sound a bit closer to a stringed instrument at times, but it doesn't sound out of place. I just…
Minor49er on HNVery cool. I wonder if you could turn something like this into the ultimate keyboard synth. That would be one hell of a product.
smaddox on HNWow, this seems like it could be bigger than Auto-Tune. I wonder if we'll reach a point where artists license a DDSP model of their instrument or voice, rather than perform…
michae2 on HN
Objections
Sax articulation and note transitions are not captured by the model
From 1 comment
While it's doing a great job emulating the timbre of the notes, what's interesting to me is what it's not doing. Play those top two passages to anyone who's spent time around sax…
ajross on HN
Chosen excerpts do not show the instrument well
From 1 comment
Have to say I'm disappointed with the chosen excerpts in the "More examples" section - they do not show very much of the generated instrument's ability (the last one is just a…
skykooler on HN
Requests
Longer audio excerpts and more documentation
From 2 comments
Have to say I'm disappointed with the chosen excerpts in the "More examples" section - they do not show very much of the generated instrument's ability (the last one is just a…
skykooler on HNJust want to chime in and say that I would love to have this ability. Will you be adding more documentation on how a knowledgeable user could use your library to accomplish this?…
dimal on HN
MIDI playable version or VST plugin
From 2 comments
Any chances this could turn into a MIDI playable instrument with some pre-trained models plus the possibility to submit user generated ones?
squarefoot on HNVery cool. I wonder if you could turn something like this into the ultimate keyboard synth. That would be one hell of a product.
smaddox on HN
Questions
How training data amount affects quality
From 1 comment
Where does the training start to "fade off" in terms of "time spent" and "results achieved"? It seems 1 second vs 16 seconds have a dramatic change, but what about 50 seconds vs…
capableweb on HN
Whether it works on piano and synthesized sounds
From 1 comment
Does this work on synthesized sounds (like analog or physical modeling rather than samplers)? How does it handle the complexity of piano timbres (notoriously difficult to…
nyanpasu64 on HN
Alternatives named
Spleeter stem separation
From 1 comment
I dont think I understand what you mean, but, if I do, then you could look into using spleeter. It separates musical stems. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21431071…
not1ofU on HN
Kontakt and sample libraries
From 1 comment
While interesting, I'm skeptical an algorithmic approach will ever come close to a decent wavetable-based synth (using samples/noises from the real instrument) or scripted…
mkr-hn on HN
Google NSynth Super
From 1 comment
You may be interested in stuff like this: https://nsynthsuper.withgoogle.com/
uoaei on HN