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Re: Show HN: Riffusion with Lyrics

#41
I am blown away at how the lyrics sync up with the melodies... like some of the outputs are JINGLES. that a company would pay an agency like 300,000$ to come up with in 1995. The audio quality is so good, akin to an old VHS casette you'd find playing a commercial or something.

Just incredible.

feature requests:

- Need a Delete button on the song tiles so we can garbage the bad generations we don't want to keep.

Re: Show HN: Riffusion with Lyrics

#42
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I can see people attaching songs to TikTok, not! TikTok would have their own version out before they allow Riff to easily attach outside music on their platform. On a footnote, everyone of the songs seem to sound a bit derivative in a very “I’ve heard that somewhere before” vibe, you may get lyrics that vibes but it all seem “weak”. I’m just saying it as it is, not trying to be mean or putting the devs down, it’s jus…

When the drum machine was released, tons of musicians said it sounded rubbish and not like real drums. Time will tell whether this falls in that same category, but generally it’s easy to underestimate new stuff.

Mmm, this really isn't the same thing. With a drum machine you're still programming the riffs themselves and people's chief complaint was the sound itself, whereas I've listened to a number of samples from this and the quality is definitely there, but the lyrical melodies themselves are not particularly harmonically engaging or memorable. Like the voices are just all over the place on the scale.

That being said, this is definitely a "meme" kind of thing rather than a tool for actual orchestration.

Re: Show HN: Riffusion with Lyrics

#45

I am blown away by how well the country and opera genres work. Country: https://www.riffusion.com/riffs/746af7e4-0578-4688-9a5f-69e3... Opera: https://www.riffusion.com/riffs/7bce0bd1-4faf-4919-ac66-a5d0...

Those are awesome! Sorry if the app is down for you or anyone else right now btw. Our servers are a little overloaded but we'll be back up in no time

Re: Show HN: Riffusion with Lyrics

#46
Are any of these music AI's trying to use VSTi instruments and the like? It seems like with the wealth of amazing quality instruments that just accept MIDI data, this would be a really good idea and require almost no compute power comparitively.

Re: Show HN: Riffusion with Lyrics

#48
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Riffusion is great! Wishing you the best of luck, Hayk and Seth. Question: what are role models of companies that generated a fun "toy" like yours (hope you don't mind the word; not meant negatively) and somehow figured out how to monetise it later?

We're happy to be building a toy! Your comment reminds me of this post: https://cdixon.org/2010/01/03/the-next-big-thing-will-start-... It's still really early innings for this technology, so we're happy to be learning and building fun technology helps people to do creative things. Main thing we're focused on is turning it from a toy you enjoy once, to something you come back to and dive deeper into (even if it's sti…

I agree, but my question is: what are specific companies that pulled this off well that you consider as role models?

Not meaning to put you in a corner, just really curious about this - I love Riffusion and hope you guys succeed.

Re: Show HN: Riffusion with Lyrics

#49
Everytime I try and remix smth it starts processing and then tells me the lyrics don't work and to create smth original.

Edit: after playing with it for an hour, I agree with other posters that midi and/or .als export options would be very desirable. Worth paying for even.

Re: Show HN: Riffusion with Lyrics

#50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When the drum machine was released, tons of musicians said it sounded rubbish and not like real drums. Time will tell whether this falls in that same category, but generally it’s easy to underestimate new stuff.

Mmm, this really isn't the same thing. With a drum machine you're still programming the riffs themselves and people's chief complaint was the sound itself, whereas I've listened to a number of samples from this and the quality is definitely there, but the lyrical melodies themselves are not particularly harmonically engaging or memorable. Like the voices are just all over the place on the scale. That being said, this…

I agree with the control thing, but I can also see that this can be solved. Not sure how but that’s the whole point of their funding round - figuring out how to make it fun in a lasting way.

The non-memorable bit… I’m certain people complained that all drum sounds from drum machines sound the same and are thus not memorable. So I’m cautious here personally, even though I see your point.

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