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vunderba on May 3, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Suno v4.5

I've mentioned it before on HN, but Sid Meier worked on an application called (appropriately enough) CPU Bach for the 3DO that would algorithmically generate endless contrapuntal music all the way back in 1994.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.P.U._Bach

ranma42 on May 3, 2025 | [–]

In a similar vein, there is https://aminet.net/package/mus/misc/AlgoMusic2_4u.lha, from ~96 or so.

zvitiate on May 3, 2025 | [–]

Ohhh this looks very cool. Thank you for sharing! Will dive into this over the weekend.

dagelf on May 9, 2025 | [–]

It's almost week-end! But I'm pretty sure these were shared merely as historical anecdotes, and that Suno 4.5 is the bleeding edge here...

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