A LITTLE MORE ABOUT STYLE CREATOR BOT

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A LITTLE MORE ABOUT STYLE CREATOR BOT

I have now converted several hundred high-quality midi files.
The result so far is 40 styles that are better than they could have been with Style Works.

I have left many out for final processing, simply because I don't like all kinds of music; many more styles than these 40 have worked as they should.


Here are some typical "errors" that occur during conversion:

1: Melody tracks are often included in Variations, which works poorly - SCB is unable to detect melody tracks particularly well, which is very understandable, because harmonies can be complex and unpredictable - try an atonal song, and see what happens.
Even the best AI in the world cannot do this without many errors.

2: Intro 1 is often too short, so that Variation 1 starts incorrectly. Ending 2 is also often too short, so that the song stops before it is actually finished.

3: In some cases, Fills are missing, but this is because there are no natural Fills in all songs - I have created many with Style Works without Fills.

4: Several or all style parts can often start and stop in the wrong place, which is not SCB's fault - many (even high-quality midis) are poorly synchronized. With Style Works, I very often corrected poor synchronization, which in the best case (1/32 value) without correction resulted in a missing first bass beat. Also in many cases, the synchronization was wrong with a value up to 1/2 from the middle and outwards, and Style Works cannot fix this, because it can only give a global value for the entire midi file. A midi editor can fix this, however.
If SCB had had the ability to create and move markers, these midi files would have worked as they should, and all style parts would have started and stopped in the right place.

5: Transposition is a widespread problem with SCB - many styles are assigned the wrong key in both Intro 1 and Ending 1.
However, this is completely understandable and expected, and Style Works did this much worse.
For some unknown reason, SCB transpositions is rarely possible to correct with Pa5X.


In any case, SCB works far better than Style Works, and in comparison, I have worked with many thousands of midi files in Style Works, but have only managed to create a few hundred styles - of varying quality.

SCB is capable of creating many more very good styles with a keystroke..!

[♔Chello]

A LITTLE MORE

I have now converted about 1000 midi files, and this should form a reasonably solid basis for a more in-depth assessment.

Most midi (and karaoke) files can be converted - only very few are covered by effective copyright.

A great many give acceptable results, while surprisingly many give very good results - in fact Style Works gives far worse and more variable results.

The library I use as a source (the Edizioni Milano Publishing package) I have first tested with Style Works, and SCB surpasses this by a good margin, because far more midi files turn into full-fledged styles with SCB.

All my specific remarks remain unchanged, but I would like to add a few more points:
6: Some styles only work with intros and endings - nothing happens when variations/fills are pressed.
7: Some styles do not work at all.
8: Some styles cause crashes, requiring a restart of the keyboard.
9: More styles than expected require quite extensive level adjustments of the style parts.
10: Almost all styles contain ready-made presets for FX1 and FX2 - it is only necessary to find the right effects, which I have not spent time on.
11: More styles than expected contain complete presets for FX1, FX2 and FX3, and that effects are selected unactivated for these.