# NONOTO: A Model-agnostic Web Interface for Interactive Music Composition by Inpainting

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.10380 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/1907.10380/

## Key facts

- Cited by 10 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 23 Jul 2019.

## Built on by (most cited first, 10 of 10)

- [The Piano Inpainting Application](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2107.05944/) (2021)
- [The Ethical Implications of Generative Audio Models: A Systematic Literature Review](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2307.05527/) (2023)
- [MusIAC: An extensible generative framework for Music Infilling Applications with multi-level Control](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2202.05528/) (2022)
- [Variable-Length Music Score Infilling via XLNet and Musically Specialized Positional Encoding](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2108.05064/) (2021)
- [Composer's Assistant: An Interactive Transformer for Multi-Track MIDI Infilling](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2301.12525/) (2023)
- [Is Disentanglement enough? On Latent Representations for Controllable Music Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2108.01450/) (2021)
- [Composer's Assistant 2: Interactive Multi-Track MIDI Infilling with Fine-Grained User Control](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2407.14700/) (2024)
- [Melody Infilling with User-Provided Structural Context](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2210.02829/) (2022)
- [Spectrogram Inpainting for Interactive Generation of Instrument Sounds](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2104.07519/) (2021)
- [From One-Shot Generation to Incremental Music Composition: Adapting a General-Purpose Instruction LLM for Persistent Symbolic Editing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2609.34994/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Inpainting-based generative modeling allows for stimulating human-machine interactions by letting users perform stylistically coherent local editions to an object using a statistical model. We present NONOTO, a new interface for interactive music generation based on inpainting models. It is aimed both at researchers, by offering a simple and flexible API allowing them to connect their own models with the interface, and at musicians by providing industry-standard features such as audio playback, real-time MIDI output and straightforward synchronization with DAWs using Ableton Link.