---
license: apache-2.0
datasets:
- projectlosangeles/Godzilla-MIDI-Dataset
language:
- en
tags:
- Orpheus
- MIDI
- music-ai
- music-transformer
- SOTA
- multi-instrumental
- music
---

# Orpheus Music Transformer
## SOTA 8k multi-instrumental music transformer trained on 2.31M+ high-quality MIDIs

![Orpheus-Music-Transformer-Artwork-1.jpg](https://cdn-uploads.huggingface.co/production/uploads/5f57ea2d3f32f12a3c0692e6/ga9kOTV6mH8nDljTw2OsO.jpeg)

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## Abstract

### Project Los Angeles is very proud to present **Orpheus Music Transformer**, an efficient, SOTA transformer model for long-form, multi-instrumental music generation. At its core lies a 479 M-parameter autoregressive transformer equipped with Rotary Positional Embeddings (RoPE) and Flash Attention, enabling sequence lengths up to 8 k tokens—sufficient to capture extended musical structures. Trained for three epochs on 2.31 million high-quality MIDI tracks from the Godzilla dataset, our model employs a compact 3-token-per-note and 7-token-per-tri-chord encoding, plus a novel duration-and-velocity-last ordering to enhance expressivity. We leverage PyTorch’s bfloat16 precision and memory-efficient sparse-dense products for accelerated inference on CUDA, and provide a top-*p* sampling filter with adjustable temperature.

### The Gradio interface empowers users to upload seed MIDI files or generate from scratch, tune prime/generation token counts, control randomness (temperature, top-*p*), and optionally append drums or natural “outro” tokens. Generated outputs appear in ten parallel batches with synchronized audio previews and piano-roll plots. Users can iteratively add or remove entire batches to sculpt a final composition, which is rendered back into MIDI and audio via an integrated SoundFont pipeline. Our release demonstrates a seamless blend of state-of-the-art model performance, efficient MIDI tokenization, and user-centric design, fostering rapid exploration of algorithmic composition.

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## Models

#### Presented are two models:

### **[Orpheus Music Transformer Model](https://huggingface.co/asigalov61/Orpheus-Music-Transformer/blob/main/Orpheus_Music_Transformer_Trained_Model_92832_steps_0.7028_loss_0.7979_acc.pth)**
#### This is a base model that is capable of music generation/continuation and notes/drums inpainting

### **[Orpheus Bridge Music Transformer Model](https://huggingface.co/asigalov61/Orpheus-Music-Transformer/blob/main/Orpheus_Bridge_Music_Transformer_Trained_Model_19571_steps_0.9396_loss_0.7365_acc.pth)**
#### This is an auxiliary model that is capable of semaless bridge inpainting/infilling in any music composition

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## Live Hugging Face spaces demos

### **[Orpheus Music Transformer](https://huggingface.co/collections/asigalov61/orpheus-music-transformer-685c3c8e59ed1414c02bb8cd)**

#### If you enjoyed any of the Orpheus Music Transformer demos, please star and duplicate. It helps a lot! 🤗

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