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MusicLM: Generating music from text

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Re: MusicLM: Generating music from text

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Demo: https://google-research.github.io/seanet/musiclm/examples/

Epic soundtrack using orchestral instruments is somewhat interesting as electronic music but to me everything else is pretty bad. There is a million Industrial techno sounds, repetitive, hypnotic rhythms IDM tracks that absolutely no one listens to anymore. Most the founders of the whole genre have moved on from lack of interest. We have been able to do really good generative music in Reaktor for the last 20 years. M…

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Re: MusicLM: Generating music from text

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They said they're not going to allow people to use it based on fear of plagiarism accusations / music industry lawsuits. Ugh, typical.

I want someone to train it on public domain music. Kind of like the YouTube Audio Library but I assume that's not exactly the right license for this. But with sufficient effort someone could make a lot of recordings of public domain music for this purpose and build something that the RIAA thugs couldn't actually touch.

Re: MusicLM: Generating music from text

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May I recommend to learn how to use a tracker software? It is very fun to play with!

Can you recommend a tracker software package to use?

Sorry for the late reply, I would recommand Famitracker for begginers as it is the most user friendly out there. For a modern tracker try Renoise, it is basically your every day DAW in tracker form.
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