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Re: MusicLM: Generating music from text

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I hope you also consider getting some music from an actual producer!

Why is there this need for humans to be involved at all stages of production? Do we still need humans to knit and handwash our clothes? To live in a caboose or lighthouse? To operate our elevators? To deliver the milk? Why should anyone have to learn to draw in the future when machines promise to do a better job? There are so many better uses for our time, and too many things to do for our short lives to handle. I wa…

Sorry not clear: you want to compose music yourself or you want someone else to do for you?

Re: MusicLM: Generating music from text

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post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I hope you also consider getting some music from an actual producer!

Why is there this need for humans to be involved at all stages of production? Do we still need humans to knit and handwash our clothes? To live in a caboose or lighthouse? To operate our elevators? To deliver the milk? Why should anyone have to learn to draw in the future when machines promise to do a better job? There are so many better uses for our time, and too many things to do for our short lives to handle. I wa…

This might be something people arrive at at different ages, but at the end of the day other humans is ultimately why you’re doing what you do.

Yes, today ML can write you some run of the mill music and design assets, tell you how to develop the game, it can even play your game and write a review on it, but what’s the fun and/or point in that?

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…

The first version of Dall-E was mediocre. Look where we are now.

Re: MusicLM: Generating music from text

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I love the current rate of progress in generative music ml research. Riffusion model ( https://www.riffusion.com/about ) was trending here just a month ago. Pity Google never shares the actual models, would love to hear artists go wild with it.

btw, some of you might find interesting, diffusion-based / generative concept album: https://wielu.bandcamp.com/album/vectorstep-ep

Re: MusicLM: Generating music from text

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I’m writing my second video game (old school arcade style side-shooter) and hope I can use this to generate background chip tune music!

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?

Re: MusicLM: Generating music from text

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

The first version of Dall-E was mediocre. Look where we are now.

It's still pretty mediocre if you're being objective. The true hit rate is very low. Granted, it can produce some amazing things from time to time.

Re: MusicLM: Generating music from text

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Any plans on releasing the actual audio data and not just a csv with links to YouTube IDs?

Also maybe a silly question, but what's the legal ramifications of downloading these YouTube videos and training on them yourself? Google must have some rights, but what about people outside of Google?

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