Max Plays Audio, and also Midi in the Middle of the piece
The OMax project is based at Ircam with collaborations from UCSD and EHESS. OMax is a technology that allows a virtual musical agent to learn straight from the musicians playing live and to develop its own musical discourse in dialog with the musicians based on stylistic and timbral imitation.
See http://omax.ircam.fr
OMax the virtual improviser is an Ircam / RepMus Team project, with contributinons by G. Assayag, G. Bloch, M. Chemillier, B. Lévy, S. Dubnov, L. Bonnasse-Gahot.