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Re: Show HN: Sonauto – A more controllable AI music creator

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I dont know about the scene but i thought this was great! I was given 3 tracks, I have to say one had no sort of beat to it, so it was like noise, but the other 2 were fantastic. great stuff!

Thanks! We have a BPM assist that can enforce rhythm as well, so you could try that, too!

Re: Show HN: Sonauto – A more controllable AI music creator

#52
post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Perhaps not exactly "instantly generate a song based on a random blog post or group chat history", but more like "instantly generate a song based on an input prompt sentence" is suno.ai -- you should check it out!

LessWrong used suno.ai , but the typical song quality is not there yet, so they had to generate 3,000-4,000 songs to get 15 good ones

If there’s variance in output, it stands to reason you’d generate many X your desired output count and curate. Standard practice for creative output, from Midjourney to LLMs

Re: Show HN: Sonauto – A more controllable AI music creator

#53
I'm interested to hear more about your statement of "Our goal is to enable more of you, not replace you."

Speaking as a musician who plays real instruments (as opposed to electronic production): how does this help me? And how does this enable more of me?

I am asking with an open mind, with no cynicism intended.

Re: Show HN: Sonauto – A more controllable AI music creator

#54
post #43

Any plans for alternate login systems? Don’t want to use a Google account personally. I’d love to try it though. Thanks!

Which providers would you prefer? We tried Twitter last night but it wasn't working for some reason (kept redirecting immediately with no oauth page).

Basic username and password auth has worked for millions for decades. If you absolutely must collect user data for some reason, an email address can be used as the username. This isn't a hard problem to solve.

Re: Show HN: Sonauto – A more controllable AI music creator

#55
I think the problem here is the same one as the other current music generation services. Iteration is so important to creativity and right now you can't really properly iterate. In order to get the right song you just spray and pray and keep generating until one that is sufficient arrives or you give up. I know you hint at this being a future direction of development but in my opinion it's a key feature to take these services beyond toys.

I think it's better to think of the process of finding the right song as a search algorithm through the space of all possible songs. The current approach just uses a "pick a random point in a general area". Once we find something that is roughly correct we need something that lets us iteratively tweak the aspects that are not quite right, decreasing the search space and allowing us to iteratively take smaller and smaller steps in defined directions.

Re: Show HN: Sonauto – A more controllable AI music creator

#56
post #53

I'm interested to hear more about your statement of "Our goal is to enable more of you, not replace you." Speaking as a musician who plays real instruments (as opposed to electronic production): how does this help me? And how does this enable more of me? I am asking with an open mind, with no cynicism intended.

If the future of music was truly just typing some text into a box and taking or leaving what the machine gives you that would be kinda depressing.

We want you to be able to upload recordings of your real instruments and do all sorts of cool things with them (e.g., transform them, generate vocals for your guitar riff, use the melody as a jazz song, or just get some inspiration for what to add next).

IMO AI alone will never be able to touch hearts like real people do, but people using AI will be able to like never before.

Re: Show HN: Sonauto – A more controllable AI music creator

#57
post #55

I think the problem here is the same one as the other current music generation services. Iteration is so important to creativity and right now you can't really properly iterate. In order to get the right song you just spray and pray and keep generating until one that is sufficient arrives or you give up. I know you hint at this being a future direction of development but in my opinion it's a key feature to take these…

Our variations feature coming very soon is exactly this! Rhythm Control is an early version of this.

Re: Show HN: Sonauto – A more controllable AI music creator

#59
post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which providers would you prefer? We tried Twitter last night but it wasn't working for some reason (kept redirecting immediately with no oauth page).

Basic username and password auth has worked for millions for decades. If you absolutely must collect user data for some reason, an email address can be used as the username. This isn't a hard problem to solve.

For us it had nothing to do with collecting user data, adding what you mentioned would have just required another few hours of dev time haha. You’re right that it’s not hard to solve, we just wanted to focus on the rest of the app since there’s only two of us. We can definitely add this though!

Re: Show HN: Sonauto – A more controllable AI music creator

#60
post #53

I'm interested to hear more about your statement of "Our goal is to enable more of you, not replace you." Speaking as a musician who plays real instruments (as opposed to electronic production): how does this help me? And how does this enable more of me? I am asking with an open mind, with no cynicism intended.

Inspiration? You can generate hundreds of ideas in a day. The tracks will not be perfect but that's where actual musicians can take the ideas/themes from the tracks and perfect it.

In this way it is a tool only useful to expert musicians.

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