NONOTO: A Model-agnostic Web Interface for Interactive Music Composition by Inpainting
This work addresses the need for accessible and practical tools for interactive music generation, targeting both researchers and musicians, though it is incremental as it builds on existing inpainting-based methods.
The authors tackled the problem of interactive music composition by introducing NONOTO, a web interface that enables users to perform stylistically coherent local edits using inpainting models, resulting in a tool that supports researchers with a flexible API and musicians with features like audio playback and DAW synchronization.
Inpainting-based generative modeling allows for stimulating human-machine interactions by letting users perform stylistically coherent local editions to an object using a statistical model. We present NONOTO, a new interface for interactive music generation based on inpainting models. It is aimed both at researchers, by offering a simple and flexible API allowing them to connect their own models with the interface, and at musicians by providing industry-standard features such as audio playback, real-time MIDI output and straightforward synchronization with DAWs using Ableton Link.