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Re: Keygen.music

#11
post #4

Not that I've looked into it much, but a thought just occurred to me. Why don't we use AI to generate lofi samples for tracker music? Why aren't there trackers with that feature bolted on? I should be able to search for bespoke and unique sounds out of thin air. Surely that should be a very modest goal to achieve? (re: downvotes... I say "AI" as a synthesis method, not as a way to interfere with the creative process,…

Could you say more? I don't really follow, and I've used trackers for a long time. Don't some trackers already have something akin to this in terms of "randomizing" wave forms inside some reasonable parameters? Why would you need AI for this problem?

I assume the goal is to be able to prompt with "make me a synth that sounds like ..." and actually get a reasonable result.

Re: Keygen.music

#13

Not that I've looked into it much, but a thought just occurred to me. Why don't we use AI to generate lofi samples for tracker music? Why aren't there trackers with that feature bolted on? I should be able to search for bespoke and unique sounds out of thin air. Surely that should be a very modest goal to achieve? (re: downvotes... I say "AI" as a synthesis method, not as a way to interfere with the creative process,…

>Why don't we use AI to generate lofi samples for tracker music?

Because generating lofi samples is already pretty easy with waveform generators and existing tools. Burning millions of tokens worth of compute just to make a bass kick is profoundly wasteful.

Re: Keygen.music

#14
post #8

Bah, the user interface and design is horrible to navigate in, which just made me sad. Try to paginate, music stops etc. If you created this, spend some more effort in user testing before sharing if you want users to have a good experience. My 2 cents.

Ngl the weird UI bugs made me think it must be made by AI, either that or the developer has very skewed frontend skills where gradients are fancy but sliders & interactions are broken.

Re: Keygen.music

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post #14
post #8

Bah, the user interface and design is horrible to navigate in, which just made me sad. Try to paginate, music stops etc. If you created this, spend some more effort in user testing before sharing if you want users to have a good experience. My 2 cents.

Ngl the weird UI bugs made me think it must be made by AI, either that or the developer has very skewed frontend skills where gradients are fancy but sliders & interactions are broken.

Yeah, this is LLM like 99%. Still neat, but ffs just go through a few more testing cycles with it before going live.
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