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Suno has raised $125M to build a future where anyone can make music

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Re: Suno has raised $125M to build a future where anyone can make music

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Yeah I've heard this story before. What's actually going to happen is that Spotify and every other music streaming service will be filled with 50 million functionally identical AI generated songs made by people looking to scrape off a few cents when people listen to them by accident.

Re: Suno has raised $125M to build a future where anyone can make music

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It’s a fun service and an impressive demo, but to “make music” I need a lot more control than just entering the lyrics and describing the style. That said, there are some awesome examples there already, even with the current limitations, so I’m hopeful. Apparently so are their investors.

Re: Suno has raised $125M to build a future where anyone can make music

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post #3

It’s a fun service and an impressive demo, but to “make music” I need a lot more control than just entering the lyrics and describing the style. That said, there are some awesome examples there already, even with the current limitations, so I’m hopeful. Apparently so are their investors.

So this is just using voice synthesis and some sort of "AI" to put lyrics over a backing track? Can't imagine anything lasting or worthwhile will come out of this.

Re: Suno has raised $125M to build a future where anyone can make music

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post #3

It’s a fun service and an impressive demo, but to “make music” I need a lot more control than just entering the lyrics and describing the style. That said, there are some awesome examples there already, even with the current limitations, so I’m hopeful. Apparently so are their investors.

If you're looking for control, check out https://www.aiva.ai It's MIDI based, and provides a piano roll interface for editing.

Re: Suno has raised $125M to build a future where anyone can make music

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post #2

Yeah I've heard this story before. What's actually going to happen is that Spotify and every other music streaming service will be filled with 50 million functionally identical AI generated songs made by people looking to scrape off a few cents when people listen to them by accident.

Yeah, music streaming is already way overcrowded with actual humans making music, I don’t see how this will ever actually take off.

Re: Suno has raised $125M to build a future where anyone can make music

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post #3

It’s a fun service and an impressive demo, but to “make music” I need a lot more control than just entering the lyrics and describing the style. That said, there are some awesome examples there already, even with the current limitations, so I’m hopeful. Apparently so are their investors.

So this is just using voice synthesis and some sort of "AI" to put lyrics over a backing track? Can't imagine anything lasting or worthwhile will come out of this.

You describe the music you want in text and it generates the whole music with or without lyrics (your choice) a la stable diffusion. You can optionally supply it with your own lyrics. I don't think it counts as "creating music" yet but with inpainting and better tooling, it can probably get to where text to image generation is today in short order.
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