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TABLE OF CONTENTS
1
INTRODUCTION ....................................................................................................................................... 5
2
INSTALLATION ......................................................................................................................................... 6
2.1 UNINSTALL ALL PREVIOUS VERSIONS OF CONTINUATOR AND MIROR ...................................................... 6
2.2 INSTALL JAVA ............................................................................................................................................ 6
2.2.1
Case 1: 64-bit Java for 64-bit Windows .......................................................................................... 6
2.2.2
Case 2: 32-bit Java for 64-bit Windows .......................................................................................... 6
2.2.3
Case 3: Java for 32-bit Windows..................................................................................................... 7
2.3 INSTALL AND SETUP THE SYSTEM............................................................................................................... 7
2.3.1
Run the installer .............................................................................................................................. 7
2.3.2
Setup MIDI ports ............................................................................................................................. 8
2.3.3
Score font installation ...................................................................................................................... 9
2.4 RUN THE MIROR-IMPRO AND COMPO .................................................................................................. 9
2.5 INSTALL EYESWEB XMI ........................................................................................................................... 9
3
THE MAIN MIROR-IMPRO WINDOW ............................................................................................... 10
4
PIANO ROLL PANEL .............................................................................................................................. 12
5
IMPRO INPUT SETTINGS ..................................................................................................................... 16
5.1 PHRASE THRESHOLD ................................................................................................................................ 16
5.2 MAX LEGATO RATIO ............................................................................................................................... 17
5.3 TRANSPOSE .............................................................................................................................................. 18
5.4 KEEP ONLY THE LAST N DIFFERENT MELODIES ........................................................................................ 19
5.5 MEMORY MANAGEMENT .......................................................................................................................... 19
5.5.1
Memory Panel ............................................................................................................................... 19
5.5.2
Memory Editor............................................................................................................................... 21
5.5.3
Graph Browser (or Viewpoint Viewer) .......................................................................................... 22
5.6 OTHER INPUT SETTINGS ........................................................................................................................... 23
5.7 MIDI THRU.............................................................................................................................................. 23
6
IMPRO OUTPUT SETTINGS ................................................................................................................. 24
6.1 OUTPUT TYPES ......................................................................................................................................... 25
6.1.1
Continuation type .......................................................................................................................... 26
6.1.2
Variation type ................................................................................................................................ 27
6.1.3
Weak Variation type ...................................................................................................................... 28
6.1.4
Answer type ................................................................................................................................... 29
6.1.5
Auto type ........................................................................................................................................ 30
6.1.6
Echo type ....................................................................................................................................... 30
6.1.7
Further possible refinements of output types ................................................................................. 30
6.2 OUTPUT DURATIONS ................................................................................................................................ 31
6.2.1
Memory durations.......................................................................................................................... 31
6.2.2
Input durations .............................................................................................................................. 31
6.2.3
Linear durations ............................................................................................................................ 32
6.2.4
Quantize ......................................................................................................................................... 33
6.3 OUTPUT AMPLITUDES .............................................................................................................................. 33
6.3.1
Memory amplitudes ....................................................................................................................... 33
6.3.2
Input amplitudes ............................................................................................................................ 33
6.4 OUTPUT CLUSTERNESS ............................................................................................................................. 33
6.5 USER DEFINED TARGET FOR TERMINAL NOTE (DEACTIVATED SINCE V2.5) ............................................... 34
6.6 NUMBER OF LOOPS ................................................................................................................................... 34
6.7 MAX ORDER ............................................................................................................................................. 34
6.8 AVOID CYCLES ......................................................................................................................................... 34
6.9 GENERATE ANOTHER ............................................................................................................................... 36
6.10
HARMONY RECTIFIER .......................................................................................................................... 36
7
TO BETTER UNDERSTAND THE IMPRO PARAMETERS ............................................................. 38
7.1
7.2
8
DO IT YOURSELF! ..................................................................................................................................... 38
AUGMENTING THE TRAINING SET ............................................................................................................. 39
IMPRO SESSION MANAGEMENT ....................................................................................................... 40
8.1
STRUCTURE OF SESSIONS ......................................................................................................................... 40
Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris
Technical Report 2013-3