Paper ID: 2405.05240 • Published May 8, 2024

An LSTM-Based Chord Generation System Using Chroma Histogram Representations

Jack Hardwick
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This paper proposes a system for chord generation to monophonic symbolic melodies using an LSTM-based model trained on chroma histogram representations of chords. Chroma representations promise more harmonically rich generation than chord label-based approaches, whilst maintaining a small number of dimensions in the dataset. This system is shown to be suitable for limited real-time use. While it does not meet the state-of-the-art for coherent long-term generation, it does show diatonic generation with cadential chord relationships. The need for further study into chroma histograms as an extracted feature in chord generation tasks is highlighted.