Reply To: AI piano player?

[Brian]

Speculation mode on – I don’t think there is AI involved in the MIDI output created by UJAM or EZ Keyboard stuff.  I think they are algorithmic (i.e. old fashioned computer code) because the output is precisely repeatable based on the input.  In both programs, if you mash the same keys and pick the same settings, you get the same generated part. Actual AI LLM or SLM MIDI engines that I have used will generate output a little different every time *.  UJAM sells four (so far) genre specific titles and the MIDI generated can be controlled by keyswitches and range settings applied to the canned programs.  One feature you mentioned that UJAM uses is ranging the output from “sparse” to “busy” over the keyswitch range, a bit like their other instruments if you have used any of those.  EZ Keys sells the host product and several separate style libraries, although there are a lot of limited basic styles included in the base program.  I have both EZ and UJAM.  If I am playing/creating something that I want to add piano to (beyond my fumbling poking), I reach for EZ Keys-  It has a “Bandmate” feature that will often come up with suitable accompaniment to a melody or chords that you are working with. I find UJAM keys as something fun to generate new ideas, but not really suitable  for finding a fit to an idea you are working on.  It is just too “hit and miss” for that.  Lot’s of good YT vids for EZ Keys out there.  Not so much for UJAM, whose stuff I like, but is more targeting one finger fun.  Just another tip in general for UJAM.  They effect the heck out of everything they do.  All their guitars, keyboards, beat machines, and drums are MIDI generating multi-sample players and most sound really great if you find the FX controls in the UI; shut them off and use your own, or at least cut them way back.

 

• Yes algorithmic code can generate random or probabilistic output, and there are a lot of MIDI tools that do, but I so far have not experienced that from UJAM VP or EZ Keys.

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