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Re: Ask HN: Recommendations for AI generated music software?

#11
I found an app called Mubert which seems close to what I want, but as with all of these generative/AI music things, they seem to carefully avoid giving straight information about price and the licence for using the music on videos.

Startups: please make something that I can pay money for that lets me make music clips and use them on videos, that I can buy at a clear price without sending an enquiry email.

Re: Ask HN: Recommendations for AI generated music software?

#12

>for these simple requirements What gives you the idea that these requirements are simple for an AI to live up to? I'm only a novice in AI, but the product you're asking for seems very complex.

It is pretty simple:

The app lets me make music clips of a certain time duration, save them and use them on videos royalty/license free. The app gives me some control over pace/style of music. I pay either a once off or monthly fee to use it.

Re: Ask HN: Recommendations for AI generated music software?

#13
Not what you're asking for, but I think you should take a look at band-in-a-box (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Band-in-a-Box).

When I studied music this was very interesting to me. A lot of music composition is fill-in-the-blanks / formulaic, and this generates melodies and countermelodies / accompaniment following a common (user selected) chord progression, that sounds correct and would probably pass as an assignment from an undergraduate music composition student.

There's no AI as far as I know, but if there was a Turing test for music, this would pass.

Coupled with a bit of arrangement and an original melody it can be quite nice.

Re: Ask HN: Recommendations for AI generated music software?

#14

Shameless self-plug, I maintain a Spotify playlist that is optimized for getting me into "Flow." I use it for coding/thinking. It has 677 tracks so far. See here: https://whoami.sh/thought/flow-playlist https://brain.fm/ also has some good stuff. Some of it is tailored for focusing and works pretty well as coding music. I believe their stuff is AI-generated.

That looks like a nice playlist (I know lots of the artists and will have to check out some of the others), but it's completely unrelated to someone asking for a way to generate copyright-free music to use in their own videos.

Re: Ask HN: Recommendations for AI generated music software?

#15
post #5

What you want is a plain old music generator app. Search for "generative music". Drop the Ai, it's overkill. Also with the amazing tech these days anyone can be a musician. It's basically push-botton. Bloom on the iOs app store. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bloom/id292792586 Someone's cloned Bloom: https://github.com/generative-music/blossom Wotja too maybe. Here's their FAQ about rights: https://intermorphic.com/wo…

I just want to highlight that Bloom was specifically created by Eno, whom you mentioned. He considers the generation his art. But the github repo 'clone' is under MIT so just use that.

Re: Ask HN: Recommendations for AI generated music software?

#16
One option is Wolfram Tones (tones.wolfram.com/generate). It uses cellular automatons (so not quite AI but achieves your goal) to generate music.

- You can change the type of music (Jazz, Classic etc.), select instruments and so on

- You can download the music as well

The only downside is that you can only get a maximum of 30 seconds. What you can do however, is go to their free programming lab and write some code to generate any length that you might want.

Re: Ask HN: Recommendations for AI generated music software?

#20
post #5

What you want is a plain old music generator app. Search for "generative music". Drop the Ai, it's overkill. Also with the amazing tech these days anyone can be a musician. It's basically push-botton. Bloom on the iOs app store. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bloom/id292792586 Someone's cloned Bloom: https://github.com/generative-music/blossom Wotja too maybe. Here's their FAQ about rights: https://intermorphic.com/wo…

> Drop the Ai, it's overkill.

Well, if you do want to use AI, this project is totally open source, "real" AI and pretty damned easy to use,[0] and generates something that's pretty darn close to SOTA as far as actual "musical" interest goes! Unfortunately, it seems to need Python 2. It would be really nice if someone forked the project (it's pretty researchy/proof-of-concept right now!) and committed to maintaining it for the foreseeable future, to run on whatever supplants Python 2 as the "standard" platform for Theano, when that version of Python goes EOL.

[0] https://github.com/hexahedria/biaxial-rnn-music-composition

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