# Got a pretrained music transformer to jam with me live, no fine-tuning, just steering the sampling [P]

> Source: <https://aiflash.com/news/139726/>
> Published: 2026-10-26 13:00:23+00:00

I wanted to see how far you can get making a pretrained symbolic music model "listen" to a live player without training it. Turns out pretty far. Setup: I play a MIDI keyboard, the Anticipatory Music Transformer (Thickstun et al., music-medium-800k) plays a second piano. While I play I track my key,