markovmusic

What is it?

Using markovmusic, you can make a Markov chain generate music using patterns learned from your own MIDI files.

Minimal use

• Install this package

pip install markovmusic

• Instantiate a composer

from markovmusic import MarkovComposer

model = MarkovComposer()

• Specify a a MIDI file to train the composer on

model.fit("allmanbros/jessica.mid")

• Compose and play new music

model.compose()

Advanced features

Usage of the following advanced features is in the docstrings for the following methods of MarkovComposer:

• fit(): you can specify:
  • how many previous chords you want the composer to learn to use to predict the next chord (look_back)
  • whether to play the music while training or not (play)
• compose(): you can specify:
  • how long the generated music should be (piece_length)
  • how creative or restrictive you want the generated music to be (temperature)
  • whether to play the music while generating or not (play)
  • a path to save the music as a WAV file (wav_path)
• save_chain(): save a trained composer to disk
• load_chain(): load a saved composer from disk