Automatic chord generation system using basic music theory and genetic algorithm
Shingchern D. You, Po-Sheng Liu · 2016
To aid amateur music composers and lovers, we develop an automatic chord generation system. The inputs to the system are the main melody and chords in exemplar songs. Then, the system will provide the generated chords similar to the chords in the exemplars. Inside the system, we use the genetic algorithm to find suitable variations of chords from the exemplars. The subjective listening test confirms that the developed system has some merits over commercial systems.