HI Saul; I asked ChatGPT to write some ABC notation. The result was...'okay'.
I then asked for a very simple arrangement of some children's tune and it got very confused about relative pitches. Since the rhythm for the piece of music I requested was so simple it didn't have a problem generating the score. I argued with ChatGPT about relative pitches in Lilypond, I told it to go back and read the manuals :-) I gave up asking ChatGPT about generating Lilypond scores after that. Ken Wolcott On Wed, Mar 29, 2023 at 3:44 PM Saul Tobin <saul.james.to...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I've seen some examples of other people succeeding in getting ChatGPT with > GPT4 to compose simple music in other text based music formats. I've had > limited success getting it to output Lilypond code. It is able to correctly > structure the code with a score block, nested contexts, and appropriately > named variables, and bar checks at the end of each measure. It seems to > struggle to create rhythms that fit within the time signature beyond > extremely simple cases. It also seems to struggle a lot to understand what > octave pitches will be in when using relative mode. > > It also seems to have a lot of trouble keeping track of the relationship > between notes entered in different simultaneous expressions. Just asking it > to repeat back which notes appear in each voice on each beat, GPT4 frequently > gives stubbornly incorrect answers about the music it generated. This makes > it very difficult to improve its output by giving feedback. > > I'm curious whether anybody else has tried playing with this. I have to > imagine that GPT4 has the potential to produce higher quality Lilypond > output, given some of the other impressive things it can do. Perhaps it needs > to be provided with a large volume of musical repertoire in Lilypond format.
