Calliope User Guide (0.9.5)

Interface

  • [1] Page Navigation for login/logout is located on the top left part of the window. Page Navigation Menu includes: Home, Update Profile, Logout.
  • [3] Add/Delete session:
    • New: Create a new empty corpus with a name
    • Delete: Delete the selected corpus [4]
  • [4] Select a session to work from. The selected session’s name is displayed. A session is first created for a given MIDI file.
  • [5] Add new MIDI files to the session
  • [7] Bar Selector / MIDI Viewer: to visualize selected MIDI file. The “+” adds a new MIDI track to the file and displays it visually.
  • [8] MIDI Player:
    • Player controls:
      • Song title,
      • Repeat when done,
      • Previous track in the table of MIDI files,
      • Play/stop,
      • Next track in the table of MIDI files,
      • Individual download button
    • MIDI Streaming port: Stream to a MIDI port. Calliope discovers and displays all available MIDI ports on your machine. By default, Calliope enables a port called “Calliope Bus 1” for use. This will stop and restart the track
    • Soundfont: select the MIDI sound source for playback
    • Tempo adjustment
    • Volume slider
  • [8] MIDI Player Keyboard Shortcuts:
    • Spacebar: Play/Stop
    • “V”: previous track
    • “B”: next track

Generate

  • [11] Global AI Parameters: Use to configure the MMM’s generative behavior
  • [12] Generate Options:
    • Batch size: This is the number of MIDI files you want to generate at once
    • Generate Button: This will effectively run the generation of MIDI files given the configured settings and controls
  • [13] Table of original and generated MIDI files for the selected session. MIDI files are listed here.
  • [13] Naming convention for generated files: “numberfrombatch_random.batch.id_generalparamsfirstletter_generalparamvalues_ 
  • [13] Download all MIDI files from the corpus by clicking on “All” (as a .zip file)
  • [15] MIDI track properties
    • MIDI Channel number for this track
    • Instrument: the MIDI GM Standard instrument assigned to this channel.
  • [16] Bar selection: This is achieved by a drag-selection action using your mouse. Selecting Bars for MIDI Generation.
  • [17] Channel-specific controls for generation