Band-in-a-Box/RealBand automation scripts
Some Python code to have fun with Band-in-a-Box and RealBand on Windows.
This code was used to generate the Groove2Groove MIDI Dataset. The general procedure used to generate the data is described in our paper [pdf]:
@article{groove2groove,
author={Ond\v{r}ej C\'{i}fka and Umut \c{S}im\c{s}ekli and Ga\"{e}l Richard},
title={{Groove2Groove}: One-Shot Music Style Transfer with Supervision from Synthetic Data},
journal={IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing},
publisher={IEEE},
year={2020},
volume={28},
pages={2638--2650},
doi={10.1109/TASLP.2020.3019642},
url={https://doi.org/10.1109/TASLP.2020.3019642}
}
Scripts included:
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bb_abc2sgu.pyβ convert ABC files to BIAB (*.SGU) files -
bb_change_substyle.pyβ change the substyle of BIAB files from A to B (or vice versa) -
rb_render.pyβ render BIAB files as MIDI (or any other supported format) using RealBand -
fix_rb_midi.pyβ fix a RealBand-generated MIDI file by adding missing program change events and skipping invalid events (does not require BIAB and works on any OS)