Tokens sliders, and Prime vs. Memory vs. "tokens to generate."

[Timzoid]

As a MuseNet user who wrote over 100 compositions and posted them on my YouTube "Timzart7" channel, doing extensive re-working in my own MIDI software to improve structure and performance quality, I was almost sick when MuseNet went down, until I found this. Both the Original Version and Composer Versions are phenomenal! I love it.

I'm just coming up on one week of use, and the Pitches/Instrumental Inpainting feature in the Original Version I tried for the first time this morning, that alone is amazing, what it can do with a seed MIDI. It's not important to me that every measure be great, only that I can find a good sequence of measures, that I can use as a musician/composer to construct something engaging and wonderful.

On to my question, in MuseNet, the function of the tokens slider was "tokens to generate." It was obvious what it did and I used it all the time. In LAMC, in the Original Version, there are continuation sections that have that, where you can slide to the number of overall tokens, i.e. number of notes. You can see it as it run, as it says something like "Generating a sequence of max length: XXX," the number of tokens I choose.

But there's second tokens slider called "Prime Tokens" and am I correct in assuming that has something to do with complexity? I'm pretty sure that Prime Notes refers to the number of notes that are the same as in the seed file. For example, set on the max, it is the same as the seed file, and set on the min, it sounds nothing like the seed file.

Every continuation I generate in the Developer Version is the same, 402, no matter what the tokens slider is set to. What am I missing?

[asigalov61]

@Timzoid Composer Edition is hard-coded to 402 tokens per continuation block. This is why it generates only 402 tokens. This was done to reduce the generation time and also because it is optimal for continuation. MuseNet also used max 400 tokens so it is basically their optimal value.

The prime tokens option controls how many tokens to take from the source Custom MIDI. It is only applicable to the first generated block in the Composer Edition.

I hope you were able to figure it out by now but if not, let me know and I will elaborate more.

I also miss MuseNet. This was the reason why I created LAMC because I was sure that OpenAI will take MuseNet down eventually :)

Thank you for your questions and feedback. Feel free to write if you need to. I am always here to help :)