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Re: AI Music Generator

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Something I’ve noticed when programmers try to break down melodic composition to an algorithm is that they don’t grasp how important the beat or the implied beat is to creating catchy melodic phrases. Good melodies have a question/answer or a phrase/reply relationship with this beat. It’s a conversation. All memorable music has this feature. The kick asks a question and the snare answers. The kick/snare ask a questio…

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Re: AI Music Generator

#32

Sounds worse or on par with most stock/royalty free music. It's interesting that you can actually hear the absence of a soul.

I wonder if you'd have had this impression if you hadn't known that it was algorithmically created. Could be an interesting test to make, a turing test of sorts.

This is anecdata, but the SoundRaw-generated audio I use on about 50% of my YouTube videos generates significantly more adverse comments than the stock audio on the remainder.

Re: AI Music Generator

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Not AI, at least not for the composition process. It algorithmically combines a library of loops using genre templates: https://napolitano.de/2021/11/12/soundraw-ai-music-creation-...

To defend the website, it can still be argued to be called AI. Rule based methods are still said by some to be a section of AI. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule-based_system I understand that nowadays when we think of AI we imagine deep learning and neural networks, but nowhere on the website does it claim that that is the case. Think of ELIZA for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA One of the earliest chat…

This is the right answer. Too many "experts" out here who cannot differentiate between AI/ML/DS but swear they know it all

Re: AI Music Generator

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How do Soundraw know for sure the auto-generated music is original and therefore royalty-free? So not close enough to an already released, copyrighted, piece of music.

There are 35 million released songs. Completely original music is a myth. If it doesn't use samples without a proper license, then it's legally OK.

Currently, US courts disagree.

Re: AI Music Generator

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How do Soundraw know for sure the auto-generated music is original and therefore royalty-free? So not close enough to an already released, copyrighted, piece of music.

Alot of music from previous century is just classical music playing somehow different. For example using Beethoven symphonies backwards.

Re: AI Music Generator

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Not AI, at least not for the composition process. It algorithmically combines a library of loops using genre templates: https://napolitano.de/2021/11/12/soundraw-ai-music-creation-...

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Re: AI Music Generator

#39

Something I’ve noticed when programmers try to break down melodic composition to an algorithm is that they don’t grasp how important the beat or the implied beat is to creating catchy melodic phrases. Good melodies have a question/answer or a phrase/reply relationship with this beat. It’s a conversation. All memorable music has this feature. The kick asks a question and the snare answers. The kick/snare ask a questio…

Yes. All algorithmic music I've heard (with few exceptions) feels aimless and meandering because their is no intention. It's not trying to say anything. It lacks purpose and a sense of how it fits into the greater composition. It's more like it's stringing together melodies that, while passable, don't have a feeling or target to aim for short of "stay in scale".

Melodies that I hear from programs rarely have coherency from one measure to the next, and definitely not from one section to the next. Let alone coherency with it's supporting or complimentary elements.

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