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AI Music Generator

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Re: AI Music Generator

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Post by Udo »

I would like to see an actual AI music generator with an interface based on text prompts. Soundraw seems to be algorithmic - nothing wrong with that, but they could make it clearer on their site.

By the way, this is a limitation of the paid plan:

> Sorry, you can only save 30 songs.

Edit: after trying this out for a bit, it seems like all the music is just a roughly randomized mix of the exact same loops and themes. Is anyone working on a Midjourney or Stable Diffusion for music?

Re: AI Music Generator

#24

Post by bambax »

zone411 wrote: post #22

It's a pretty hard problem. I'm about to run a Mechanical Turk survey comparing 10 melodies I've created together with my AI assistant to hit melodies: https://osf.io/9nd6x https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51TqjKehC-g&list=PLoCzMRqh5S...

Very nice! Is the AI singing directly (producing sound waves) or does it generate MIDI that's then fed to a synth?

Re: AI Music Generator

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Post by IAmGraydon »

Something I’ve noticed when programmers try to break down melodic composition to an algorithm is that they don’t grasp how important the beat or the implied beat is to creating catchy melodic phrases. Good melodies have a question/answer or a phrase/reply relationship with this beat. It’s a conversation. All memorable music has this feature. The kick asks a question and the snare answers. The kick/snare ask a question together and the harmony answers. The harmony asks a question and the melody answers. This is what differentiates sound from music.

AI generated music has promise, but their creators have got to get this. If you’re generating a beat, harmony and melody in isolation linked only by tempo and key and then sandwich them together, you’re doing it completely wrong. They are part of one another and can’t be created in isolation or with weak interaction.

Re: AI Music Generator

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Post by TheOtherHobbes »

Udo wrote: post #23

I would like to see an actual AI music generator with an interface based on text prompts. Soundraw seems to be algorithmic - nothing wrong with that, but they could make it clearer on their site. By the way, this is a limitation of the paid plan: > Sorry, you can only save 30 songs. Edit: after trying this out for a bit, it seems like all the music is just a roughly randomized mix of the exact same loops and themes.…

Plenty of people are.

It's a much harder problem than AI art, because even tiny out-of-style mistakes in music are very jarring. We're much more forgiving of visual errors.

Re: AI Music Generator

#28

Post by tartoran »

sabellito wrote: post #14
owlbynight wrote: post #13

Sounds worse or on par with most stock/royalty free music. It's interesting that you can actually hear the absence of a soul.

I wonder if you'd have had this impression if you hadn't known that it was algorithmically created. Could be an interesting test to make, a turing test of sorts.

It’s very much like comparing AI generated human faces with faces from stock photos, you’d have to pay attention to weird artefacts and quirks. The use depends on what it needs to be used for, and for AI stuff I think it’s mostly for generic background that nobody cares too much to find those quirks.

Re: AI Music Generator

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Post by IndySun »

ipsum2 wrote: post #3

Does anyone know how it works? Sounds decent, kind of generic. Maybe generated from MIDI directly?

There's a superb deep dive on the music data contained on the Soundraw site, plus intelligent surmising of its 'AI' processing, here... https://napolitano.de/2021/11/12/soundraw-ai-music-creation-...
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