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Generative hip-hop beats, looks nice. As I see it, the sequencing isn't the hardest part in hip-hop beats, though: a lot of the magic is in the timbre. Sampling, mixing, etc. are often what captivates me the most. Imagine doing that algorithmically - foraging through a collection of samples, processing them, chopping them up and making beats out of it. A similar constraint-based approach might work well, though probably a lot more work.

Anyways, who are the authors? Nowhere to be found! Sure it's a class project but that's no excuse! And they should publish the BeatOven source, would love to play around with it.




There is one absolute classic work in that field that I know of. It's called Designing Sound, by Andy Farnell: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/designing-sound


There's other classics by Martin Russ, Miller Puckette, Curtis Roads, Allen Strange, Perry Cook.


> And they should publish the BeatOven source, would love to play around with it.

Seconded! Though I could see something like this being quite valuable if integrated into a DAW like Ableton Live. Maybe plugins that do something like this already exist...does anyone know?


FL Studio has some really good randomize options with lots of different settings built into the piano roll.


I think that hip-hop (bar abstract hip hop) is mainly about the lyrics.




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