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

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Post by mewpmewp2 »

_DeadFred_ wrote: post #134
boringg wrote: post #62

I want to say two things -- one congrats - I am sure your team has been working exceptionally hard to develop this - and the songs sound reasonable good for AI! Two I am soo competely unenthusiastic about AI music and it infiltrating the music world - all of it sounds like fingernails on a chalkboard. Just mainstream overproduced low quality radio music. I know its a stepping stone but it kills me to listen to it rig…

80% of music is familiarity, 20% novelty, yet the majority of peoples' time goes into getting the 80% down so that they can add their 20%. Look at current music production and compare it to past. Older music seems so much simpler. It was so much easier to come up with that 20% 'novel' when pop/recorded music was new. Ironically I think AI freeing people to focus on that 20% is going to add a lot of creativity to musi…

I would agree when AI gets to a point where it's possible to do that 20%. It is just not possible yet to combine it in such ways. Right now you basically get whatever music, but there's no way to add that 20%. Same with image/video generation. AI advancements have obviously been amazing and far beyond what I would've expected, but there's still ways to go.

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

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Post by dengsauve »

Had a blast playing around w/prompts and listening to the various results.

I play piano, sax, guitar, and I can sing well enough. I'm garbage at songwriting and composing. I immediately see the value of using this tool to scaffold an idea out. I think being able to export lyrics and chord progressions would be an amazing paid feature to keep this as a freemium product.

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

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Post by bongodongobob »

parpfish wrote: post #126
bongodongobob wrote: post #114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've essentially been running an infinity jukebox for the last week. I save the ones I like and relisten. Simple as that. Edit: It's been interesting watching non-musicians argue about emotion in music. I don't care who you are, the 300th time you perform a song, you're faking it to a large degree. People see musicians as these iconic, deep, geniuses, but most of us are just doing our job. You don't get excited about…

But emotion was (most likely) involved when you wrote or first recorded the song, and that’s what people connect with. If you go to a concert and you hear the headliner play a love ballad followed up by a breakup song, you don’t expect them to actually be going through those emotions in real time.

Maybe when you wrote it, but the time between writing and recording is pretty big. I don't see why it matters anyway, it's not like anyone can tell the difference. Is an actor really feeling the emotions? Does it matter if the performance is good? Of course it doesn't.

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

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Post by antgiant »

Hmm any suggestions on how to convince it to produce something like this?

I have lyrics that I want sung by a solo female voice with the background being a male chorus. Something reminiscent of a woman singing the details of a David vs Goliath type battle backed by a chorus of the victorious warriors from that battle.

So far I have completely failed to be able to generate a female lead with a male chorus backing

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

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Post by relaxing »

suyash wrote: post #111
swalsh wrote: post #50

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None of these "songs" have any emotion.. AI music just doesn't make me "feel" anything yet.

I bet that's only becuase you know it's created by AI. If no one told you that and you hear someone sing that song and play along bet you will feel. AI is only getting better, it will be just as good as any human and only way we will be able to tell is when it's disclosed if it's AI-generated or not.

If no one told me they were AI, I’d probably assume it was a parody group or a house band messing around in the studio. It doesn’t sound like an artist writing with intention.

And I’d wonder why they encoded at 32kbps with a RealMedia codec from 1998.

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

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Post by relaxing »

zaptrem wrote: post #34
throw_m239339 wrote: post #26

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> Still I love this, ultimately I think it'll be a tool musicians use vs something for creating stand alone art Spotify is getting flooded with AI generated music. It is absolutely something people will use to just generate the music they want to hear. Ultimately though, what would be the point of spotify? Anybody will be able to generate 24/7 of songs based on their mood or a few keywords. It will radically change t…

If this were the future that would be kinda depressing. I think the best, truly catchy songs and those that truly connect with people will continue having a significant human element. I see this as similar to the invention of Photoshop except even easier for normal people to start getting into.

Photoshop doesn’t move the paintbrush for you.

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

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Post by p1esk »

dwallin wrote: 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…

But that’s not a problem when listening to Spotify? Why can’t we treat these music generation engines the same way we treat music streaming services?
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