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Show HN: Sonauto – A more controllable AI music creator

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

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Post by kome »

vouaobrasil wrote: post #217

I think programmers should stay away from trying to be musicians. Have you thought of some of the people that might lose their jobs because of this technology?

that's a silly comment. if it's serious, but i'm not sure you're serious...

but to be serious: yes, technology sometimes causes social dislocation. and that's serious. but civilized societies have many ways to deal with social dislocation, like welfare, retraining, etc.

Musicians are not going to lose their jobs because of technology. The CD hasn't killed live concerts.

But as a society, we need to do more for those who fall out of the productive system. As productivity and wealth increase, the only problem is redistribution.

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

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Post by vouaobrasil »

v7n wrote: post #220
vouaobrasil wrote: post #217

I think programmers should stay away from trying to be musicians. Have you thought of some of the people that might lose their jobs because of this technology?

Technological advancements have always disrupted industries. Should we stop innovating just because some way of doing some thing might become less profitable? Absolutely not.

I think we should stop innovating, mostly and return to a relationship-based system with other animals and plants.

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

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Post by zimmund »

jimmyjazz14 wrote: post #125
LZ_Khan wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I mean if you want inspiration there are literally millions of amazing songs on Spotify by real musicians. I have yet to hear an AI composed song that was in the least bit musically inspiring.

Well, it's a starting point for songwriters. We won't get amazing solos and clever mind-bending lyrics (yet?). One thing I love about these AI music generators is that you can take the exact same lyrics and hear them in a lot of different styles and melodies. That's something that I'd struggle with. Can you easily imagine the happy birthday song with different melodies and rythms? These tools won't create the next bop, but they can seed back ideas to musicians, while people without music skills can have fun creating songs about the things they like.

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

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Post by noman-land »

vouaobrasil wrote: post #223
v7n wrote: post #220

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Technological advancements have always disrupted industries. Should we stop innovating just because some way of doing some thing might become less profitable? Absolutely not.

I think we should stop innovating, mostly and return to a relationship-based system with other animals and plants.

Social relationships are an evolutionary innovation.

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

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Post by vouaobrasil »

noman-land wrote: post #225
vouaobrasil wrote: post #223

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think we should stop innovating, mostly and return to a relationship-based system with other animals and plants.

Social relationships are an evolutionary innovation.

I meant we should stop techological innovation of most kinds.

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

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Post by Fischgericht »

To me the most important feature for this would be getting back stems as detailed as possible instead of a final mix-down. This way I could take "suggestions" or interesting parts/instruments from your AI, and use it in a track. But I am not sure how your model works, and if it's even able to produce stems, or if it directly generates a mixed track.

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

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Post by v7n »

vouaobrasil wrote: post #223
v7n wrote: post #220

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Technological advancements have always disrupted industries. Should we stop innovating just because some way of doing some thing might become less profitable? Absolutely not.

I think we should stop innovating, mostly and return to a relationship-based system with other animals and plants.

Have you thought of some of the people that might lose their jobs because of that?

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

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Post by antidnan »

TheActualWalko wrote: post #156
cush wrote: post #73

There's a lot of negative comments here, but these are the earliest days and generating entire songs is kind of the hello world of this tech. There's always going to be a balance between creating high level tools like this with no dials and low level tools with finer control, and while this touts itself as being "more controllable", it's clearly not there. But, the same way Adobe has integrated outpainting and genera…

If anyone here is interested in something that leans towards the Ableton end of the spectrum, we're building this: https://wavtool.com/

Wow, so cool, very interested. This is exactly what I wanted to see with next gen DAWs.

How long have you been working on this?

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