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Epic soundtrack using orchestral instruments is somewhat interesting as electronic music but to me everything else is pretty bad. There is a million Industrial

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. Much better than anything on this page but no one cares. People in general want to hear the same slight variation in music over and over as background noise. The people that are saying how great all this is will be bored with it in 2 weeks or less. Pure technological kitsch.

CuriouslyC 4y ago
Let's be clear, this is a tech demo, the application is not going to be prompting infinite streams of low quality music. The application of this stuff is to enable creative tools (got a beat and some vocals, give me a bassline and backing chorus), real time computer jam partners, to provide "good enough" music for indie games/movies. These models are still in their early phases - If AI was combustion engines, we wouldn't even be to railroads yet. Despite that, they're still fun to play with and useful when used correctly.
- tomdell 4y ago
  There are tons of relatively cheap music libraries with human-composed and human-produced music that is vastly higher quality than MusicLM's output - they are used for documentaries/commercials/low-budget projects and are loaded with metadata that make it easy for directors and editors to quickly find what they are looking for. Low-quality, weird-sounding AI-generated music with wonky rhythms, an inconsistent beat, bizarre digital artifacts and a generally unpleasant lo-fi sound that probably has to be patiently generated and listened to over and over again to find a usable result is highly unlikely to beat out already very cheap, much higher-quality and easily searchable human-written music for even the lowest budget projects.
chasing 4y ago
Yeah, as far as electronic music goes, maybe people don't realize just how good (and automated) the current tools are. And have been for years.
primordialsoup 4y ago
The first version of Dall-E was mediocre. Look where we are now.
- woeirua 4y ago
  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.
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CuriouslyC 4y ago

Let's be clear, this is a tech demo, the application is not going to be prompting infinite streams of low quality music. The application of this stuff is to enable creative tools (got a beat and some vocals, give me a bassline and backing chorus), real time computer jam partners, to provide "good enough" music for indie games/movies. These models are still in their early phases - If AI was combustion engines, we wouldn't even be to railroads yet. Despite that, they're still fun to play with and useful when used correctly.

tomdell 4y ago
There are tons of relatively cheap music libraries with human-composed and human-produced music that is vastly higher quality than MusicLM's output - they are used for documentaries/commercials/low-budget projects and are loaded with metadata that make it easy for directors and editors to quickly find what they are looking for. Low-quality, weird-sounding AI-generated music with wonky rhythms, an inconsistent beat, bizarre digital artifacts and a generally unpleasant lo-fi sound that probably has to be patiently generated and listened to over and over again to find a usable result is highly unlikely to beat out already very cheap, much higher-quality and easily searchable human-written music for even the lowest budget projects.

chasing 4y ago

Yeah, as far as electronic music goes, maybe people don't realize just how good (and automated) the current tools are. And have been for years.

primordialsoup 4y ago

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

woeirua 4y ago
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.

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