Proper research, development and evaluation of AI-based generative systems of music that focus on performance or composition require active user-system interactions. To include a diverse group of users that can properly engage with a given system, researchers should provide easy access to their developed systems. Given that many users (i.e. musicians) are non-technical to the field of AI and the development frameworks involved, the researchers should aim to make their systems accessible within the environments commonly used in production/composition workflows (e.g. in the form of plugins hosted in digital audio workstations). Unfortunately, deploying generative systems in this manner is highly expensive. As such, researchers with limited resources are often unable to provide easy access to their works, and subsequently, are not able to properly evaluate and encourage active engagement with their systems. Facing these limitations, we have been working on a solution that allows for easy, effective and accessible deployment of generative systems. To this end, we propose a wrapper/template called NeuralMidiFx, which streamlines the deployment of neural network based symbolic music generation systems as VST3 plugins. The proposed wrapper is intended to allow researchers to develop plugins with ease while requiring minimal familiarity with plugin development.

This research was partly funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation of the Spanish Government. Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI). (Reference: PID2019-111403GB-I00)

Comunicació presentada a AIMC 2023, celebrada del 30 d'agost al 1 de setembre de 2023 a Sussex, Anglaterra.