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I've been working with OpenAi's jukebox to make vocals / "singer-songwriter" type stuff rather than electronica. Can do a HN writeup on process if there is int

I've been working with OpenAi's jukebox to make vocals / "singer-songwriter" type stuff rather than electronica. Can do a HN writeup on process if there is interest... Youtube Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lcCJzfXl50&list=PLaa32nLgVvrkyveSU8rtD4l02eYQtRlWA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lcCJzfXl50&list=PLaa32nLgVv... SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/songshtr/sets/machinecroon https://soundcloud.com/songshtr/sets/machinecroon Github: https://songshtr.github.io https://songshtr.github.io The main challenge for me so far has been post-processing. Jukebox produces very "scratchy" / lofi outputs... and I've been DIY'ing with Audacity. Thinking of getting a track professionally mastered to see just how far the boundary is...

YetAnotherNick 4y ago
That's impressive. And the music is much more different than I expected, in a good way. So you wrote the lyrics? Or is it autogenerated as well?
- songeater 4y ago
  Thanks so much for your kind words... and for taking the time to listen! Yes I wrote the lyrics myself (other than a couple quotes from Eliot & Borges) - no GPT etc involved in the text. Even with the tunes, the seed music fed to Jukebox gives some control over what gets generated next... especially when you later splice various outputs together. Each ~2-3 minute song needs anywhere between 15-100 2-3 minute raw snippets to be generated from Jukebox before you can find enough sections to paste together. I suppose I would be considered a writer/producer while Jukebox is clearly the performer - an immensely talented, yet completely capricious one!
  - 8bitsrule 4y ago
    Neat! Wondering where the singing voices came from, thought I heard some Cash- and Dylan- like phrasing, dialect in some places.
simonebrunozzi 4y ago
Yes, would love a writeup!
- songeater 4y ago
  Ok, I'll write up a ShowHN and hope it doesn't get lost in the shuffle. In the meantime, would point you to the Jukebox discord server run by Brocaloo as the best all-in resource: https://discord.com/channels/766622617393430559/769885769891840010 https://discord.com/channels/766622617393430559/769885769891...
- songeater 4y ago
  Posted a ShowHN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31980469 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31980469 check it out and hopefully is helpful!

YetAnotherNick 4y ago

That's impressive. And the music is much more different than I expected, in a good way. So you wrote the lyrics? Or is it autogenerated as well?

songeater 4y ago
Thanks so much for your kind words... and for taking the time to listen! Yes I wrote the lyrics myself (other than a couple quotes from Eliot & Borges) - no GPT etc involved in the text. Even with the tunes, the seed music fed to Jukebox gives some control over what gets generated next... especially when you later splice various outputs together. Each ~2-3 minute song needs anywhere between 15-100 2-3 minute raw snippets to be generated from Jukebox before you can find enough sections to paste together. I suppose I would be considered a writer/producer while Jukebox is clearly the performer - an immensely talented, yet completely capricious one!
- 8bitsrule 4y ago
  Neat! Wondering where the singing voices came from, thought I heard some Cash- and Dylan- like phrasing, dialect in some places.

simonebrunozzi 4y ago

Yes, would love a writeup!

songeater 4y ago
Ok, I'll write up a ShowHN and hope it doesn't get lost in the shuffle. In the meantime, would point you to the Jukebox discord server run by Brocaloo as the best all-in resource: https://discord.com/channels/766622617393430559/769885769891840010 https://discord.com/channels/766622617393430559/769885769891...
songeater 4y ago
Posted a ShowHN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31980469 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31980469 check it out and hopefully is helpful!