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Make a song for the computer nerds at hackernews, the song should be geeky, with computer tones, modem sounds, very weird but also smooth: https://share.getclo

by neom 3y ago

Make a song for the computer nerds at hackernews, the song should be geeky, with computer tones, modem sounds, very weird but also smooth: https://share.getcloudapp.com/7KuzO6QO https://share.getcloudapp.com/7KuzO6QO Let's make some tropical house, use the lyrics "call my private number" as the hook, the vibes should be disco, light, fun: https://share.getcloudapp.com/2Nub4m6B https://share.getcloudapp.com/2Nub4m6B Let's take some classical music and turn it into techno: https://share.getcloudapp.com/NQuW6lBP https://share.getcloudapp.com/NQuW6lBP tropical house, 120bpm, bongos, wind chime, flutes: https://share.getcloudapp.com/2Nub4mDq https://share.getcloudapp.com/2Nub4mDq Last one is pretty cool ^^

rcarr 3y ago
The last tropical house one is better than the first one in that it gets the house 4/4 drums right whereas the first one sounds more like a rap track. It’s still got elevator music vibes though.
dS0rrow 3y ago
Thanks for sharing! In the 1st example ["computer nerds", "hackernews", "geeky", "computer tones"] seem to make the result sound more like an old-school RPG soundtrack rather than a song.
- SeanAnderson 3y ago
  I dunno, I got Glitch Mob vibes from it. Not exactly Top 40, but still musical. Something like this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHGxEVHZXlU&t=40s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHGxEVHZXlU&t=40s
- bardan 3y ago
  > more like an old-school RPG soundtrack rather than a song Well I'm just going to go ahead and pretend I didn't hear that.
amelius 3y ago
Nice, but somehow it feels like I've heard these songs before. Could that be possible?
- m-i-l 3y ago
  >"Nice, but somehow it feels like I've heard these songs before. Could that be possible?" According to the paper[0] "We found that only a tiny fraction of examples was memorized exactly, while for 1% of the examples we could identify an approximate match." FWIW I'm pretty sure I heard a fragment of Kalinka (a folk tune in the public domain) in one of the samples I generated. [0] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2301.11325.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/2301.11325.pdf
youssefabdelm 3y ago
Is there a way to get off the waitlist? They all suck. Nowhere near Jukebox. Depressing that seemingly zero progress has been made since that.
- SeanAnderson 3y ago
  ? I don't think these suck. I enjoyed the first and last ones genuinely. Shared them with friends, head bobbed a bit to the beat.
  - salmonfamine 3y ago
    They are just very bland and a little musically incoherent. They pass the basic sniff test of, "this sounds like music" but the more you listen the more they fall apart. It's a good muzak generator, but that's about it.
    - SeanAnderson 3y ago
      Yeah, I agree. It's not going to replace modern music theory today or tomorrow, but I'm excited to play with this sort of thing in dynamic video game content generation. I'm envisioning a user giving a bit of information about their mood and then getting auto-generated music while they use an app briefly. What I heard here seems good enough to impress some people with that use case.
      - grugagag 3y ago
        I agree too, it’s passable filler
      - cubefox 3y ago
        Don't ask where audio generation is now, ask where it was a year ago and then where it will be in a year from now. Or, say, in five years. Remember all the people who said, in January and February of 2020, this "novel coronavirus" is not a big deal? Because it affected only a tiny amount of people? Because "much more people die from the flu"? The fallacy is that they ignored the speed at which it progressed.
moffkalast 3y ago
Feels a bit... noisy? Like a way overcompressed mp3.
- TheOtherHobbes 3y ago
  It's basically overcompressed MP3 cliche soup. The information density of music is much higher than that of text or still images. So something like this is still tech overreach.
  - Applejinx 3y ago
    That said, it'll be able to match modern overcompressed human cliche soup pretty easily. There's a lot of production out there which is really low hanging fruit for AI. It's not unlike how the visual AI can do 'Greg Rutkowski', but has a hell of a time being an actual concept artist in a functional way. If the cliche soup is well defined, you're pretty much all set, particularly if it's not a genre that requires a lot of character.
  - jacquesm 3y ago
    > The information density of music is much higher than that of text or still images. That depends on how you encode it. As a sound file (.wav, .mp3 or something like that) it's hard to compress but as for instance a midi file it can be very compact. Music is hard to make and hard to reverse but it is relatively compact in terms of source material if it can be expressed as midi.
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kccqzy 3y ago
This is very cool! I can totally see this being used in low-budget indie video games (much like Midjourney already being used in video games).
- Lacerda69 3y ago
  Really? This sounds like horrible muzak to me and there is TONS of awesome actually good royalty free music out there. Maybe it will get there in some time, but right now I would not use this.
  - MyelinatedT 3y ago
    This definitely feels like more of a tech demo for things to come. But I suspect it could get dramatically better in a matter of months or single-digit years.
smolder 3y ago
I'm curious whether they put any guard rails around what kinds of sounds you can invoke. Can you get it to synthesize offensive speech that's legible? Does it do gun shots, fart noises, orgasm sounds, crying, or screams of pain?
- neom 3y ago
  sexy music with orgasmic moan - Oops, can't generate music for that sexy sax - Oops, can't generate music for that drill rap with gunshot - Oops, can't generate music for that song with farts - worked but it contained no farts sadly, just some bad techo sad song with crying - worked but contained no crying, just screechy violin folk music
  - milchek 3y ago
    Excellent, my gig as a sexy sax player is safe! Jokes aside, it’s still very early days for this kind of generative AI. I see a real use case for virtual band mates that play along with whatever type of music you play when jamming at home, for example.
LegitShady 3y ago
Maybe I'm a snob but they're all awful and I wouldn't listen to most of them once (I'd skip through) let alone twice.
- robinsonb5 3y ago
  OK they're not exactly captivating to listen to - but I don't think they're supposed to be. The use-case, I think, is more along the lines of generating adequate background music for a my-first-self-published-videogame project with next to zero effort.
  - LegitShady 3y ago
    I feel like that becomes sort of shovelware. There are some games with some truly amazing scores and the above stuff doesn't approach. Is it better than no music, or stock/open license music? I'm not sure. What happens if you've built the next hollow knight but rather than the amazing score from Christopher Larkin that elevates the game you get the garbled terrible music in the above post? It actually makes it worse. I fear the path into "low/no effort" versions of music scores, art, etc is a dilution of great works that actually makes a worse product than if you went to the trouble of finding someone to do it properly. It leads to shovelware and I don't think we need more shovelware. We need more high quality high intention music and games and images, and personally I think thats going to come from gifted individuals who put in the effort to learn it, not a neural network that can't experience what you want the music to make you feel. If I logged into a video game and I got the music in the above post it would detract from the game. You'd be better off finding open license or cheap music that a human has made. its way better, and would reflect better on your game and design process.
    - hammyhavoc 3y ago
      If someone has the vision and taste to create the next x, they likely have the appreciation of what decent music sounds like and the work that goes into that.
      - 3y ago
nunja 3y ago
That's awesome! I immediately wanna build a quasi automated generative dj set and try to get some gigs around once I get access!
m3kw9 3y ago
They sound “glitchy”
nr2x 3y ago
Catching “will smith eating spaghetti” vibes.
Torkel 3y ago
Last one is much better than I expected this thing could do!
cubefox 3y ago
I think you are not supposed to give it instructions, just descriptions like in your last prompt.
flaviuspopan 3y ago
Is it able to synthesize individual elements of a track? (kick, snare, hats, bass note in C4, etc). This might be killer for pairing with a sampler. Back in the early days of hip-hop, memory & disk limits encouraged artists to load samples that were pitched up 2x then slow back down on the device. This gave the samples a grainy quality which helped the aesthetics. With a human level of polish, I'm pretty sure the combo would be amazing.
chpatrick 3y ago
The last one made me think of Monkey Island.
anikulapo 3y ago
The last one took me back to Venezuela in the late 90s. Pretty cool!
lern_too_spel 3y ago
Can it follow instructions with time codes in order to generate music that is synchronized with another performance?
dwb 3y ago
Thanks for sharing. To me it's another instance of generative AI being a technical marvel, but in absolute terms producing total crap. I'm sure it'll get better, of course, but I'm happy to completely ignore it for now.

by neom 3y ago

rcarr 3y ago

The last tropical house one is better than the first one in that it gets the house 4/4 drums right whereas the first one sounds more like a rap track. It’s still got elevator music vibes though.

dS0rrow 3y ago

Thanks for sharing! In the 1st example ["computer nerds", "hackernews", "geeky", "computer tones"] seem to make the result sound more like an old-school RPG soundtrack rather than a song.

SeanAnderson 3y ago
I dunno, I got Glitch Mob vibes from it. Not exactly Top 40, but still musical. Something like this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHGxEVHZXlU&t=40s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHGxEVHZXlU&t=40s
bardan 3y ago
> more like an old-school RPG soundtrack rather than a song Well I'm just going to go ahead and pretend I didn't hear that.

amelius 3y ago

Nice, but somehow it feels like I've heard these songs before. Could that be possible?

m-i-l 3y ago
>"Nice, but somehow it feels like I've heard these songs before. Could that be possible?" According to the paper[0] "We found that only a tiny fraction of examples was memorized exactly, while for 1% of the examples we could identify an approximate match." FWIW I'm pretty sure I heard a fragment of Kalinka (a folk tune in the public domain) in one of the samples I generated. [0] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2301.11325.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/2301.11325.pdf

youssefabdelm 3y ago

Is there a way to get off the waitlist? They all suck. Nowhere near Jukebox. Depressing that seemingly zero progress has been made since that.

SeanAnderson 3y ago
? I don't think these suck. I enjoyed the first and last ones genuinely. Shared them with friends, head bobbed a bit to the beat.
- salmonfamine 3y ago
  They are just very bland and a little musically incoherent. They pass the basic sniff test of, "this sounds like music" but the more you listen the more they fall apart. It's a good muzak generator, but that's about it.
  - SeanAnderson 3y ago
    Yeah, I agree. It's not going to replace modern music theory today or tomorrow, but I'm excited to play with this sort of thing in dynamic video game content generation. I'm envisioning a user giving a bit of information about their mood and then getting auto-generated music while they use an app briefly. What I heard here seems good enough to impress some people with that use case.
    - grugagag 3y ago
      I agree too, it’s passable filler
    - cubefox 3y ago
      Don't ask where audio generation is now, ask where it was a year ago and then where it will be in a year from now. Or, say, in five years. Remember all the people who said, in January and February of 2020, this "novel coronavirus" is not a big deal? Because it affected only a tiny amount of people? Because "much more people die from the flu"? The fallacy is that they ignored the speed at which it progressed.

moffkalast 3y ago

Feels a bit... noisy? Like a way overcompressed mp3.

TheOtherHobbes 3y ago
It's basically overcompressed MP3 cliche soup. The information density of music is much higher than that of text or still images. So something like this is still tech overreach.
- Applejinx 3y ago
  That said, it'll be able to match modern overcompressed human cliche soup pretty easily. There's a lot of production out there which is really low hanging fruit for AI. It's not unlike how the visual AI can do 'Greg Rutkowski', but has a hell of a time being an actual concept artist in a functional way. If the cliche soup is well defined, you're pretty much all set, particularly if it's not a genre that requires a lot of character.
- jacquesm 3y ago
  > The information density of music is much higher than that of text or still images. That depends on how you encode it. As a sound file (.wav, .mp3 or something like that) it's hard to compress but as for instance a midi file it can be very compact. Music is hard to make and hard to reverse but it is relatively compact in terms of source material if it can be expressed as midi.
- deleted 3y ago
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kccqzy 3y ago

This is very cool! I can totally see this being used in low-budget indie video games (much like Midjourney already being used in video games).

Lacerda69 3y ago
Really? This sounds like horrible muzak to me and there is TONS of awesome actually good royalty free music out there. Maybe it will get there in some time, but right now I would not use this.
- MyelinatedT 3y ago
  This definitely feels like more of a tech demo for things to come. But I suspect it could get dramatically better in a matter of months or single-digit years.

smolder 3y ago

I'm curious whether they put any guard rails around what kinds of sounds you can invoke. Can you get it to synthesize offensive speech that's legible? Does it do gun shots, fart noises, orgasm sounds, crying, or screams of pain?

neom 3y ago
sexy music with orgasmic moan - Oops, can't generate music for that sexy sax - Oops, can't generate music for that drill rap with gunshot - Oops, can't generate music for that song with farts - worked but it contained no farts sadly, just some bad techo sad song with crying - worked but contained no crying, just screechy violin folk music
- milchek 3y ago
  Excellent, my gig as a sexy sax player is safe! Jokes aside, it’s still very early days for this kind of generative AI. I see a real use case for virtual band mates that play along with whatever type of music you play when jamming at home, for example.

LegitShady 3y ago

Maybe I'm a snob but they're all awful and I wouldn't listen to most of them once (I'd skip through) let alone twice.

robinsonb5 3y ago
OK they're not exactly captivating to listen to - but I don't think they're supposed to be. The use-case, I think, is more along the lines of generating adequate background music for a my-first-self-published-videogame project with next to zero effort.
- LegitShady 3y ago
  I feel like that becomes sort of shovelware. There are some games with some truly amazing scores and the above stuff doesn't approach. Is it better than no music, or stock/open license music? I'm not sure. What happens if you've built the next hollow knight but rather than the amazing score from Christopher Larkin that elevates the game you get the garbled terrible music in the above post? It actually makes it worse. I fear the path into "low/no effort" versions of music scores, art, etc is a dilution of great works that actually makes a worse product than if you went to the trouble of finding someone to do it properly. It leads to shovelware and I don't think we need more shovelware. We need more high quality high intention music and games and images, and personally I think thats going to come from gifted individuals who put in the effort to learn it, not a neural network that can't experience what you want the music to make you feel. If I logged into a video game and I got the music in the above post it would detract from the game. You'd be better off finding open license or cheap music that a human has made. its way better, and would reflect better on your game and design process.
  - hammyhavoc 3y ago
    If someone has the vision and taste to create the next x, they likely have the appreciation of what decent music sounds like and the work that goes into that.
    - 3y ago

nunja 3y ago

That's awesome! I immediately wanna build a quasi automated generative dj set and try to get some gigs around once I get access!

m3kw9 3y ago

They sound “glitchy”

nr2x 3y ago

Catching “will smith eating spaghetti” vibes.

Torkel 3y ago

Last one is much better than I expected this thing could do!

cubefox 3y ago

I think you are not supposed to give it instructions, just descriptions like in your last prompt.

flaviuspopan 3y ago

Is it able to synthesize individual elements of a track? (kick, snare, hats, bass note in C4, etc). This might be killer for pairing with a sampler. Back in the early days of hip-hop, memory & disk limits encouraged artists to load samples that were pitched up 2x then slow back down on the device. This gave the samples a grainy quality which helped the aesthetics. With a human level of polish, I'm pretty sure the combo would be amazing.

chpatrick 3y ago

The last one made me think of Monkey Island.

anikulapo 3y ago

The last one took me back to Venezuela in the late 90s. Pretty cool!

lern_too_spel 3y ago

Can it follow instructions with time codes in order to generate music that is synchronized with another performance?

dwb 3y ago

Thanks for sharing. To me it's another instance of generative AI being a technical marvel, but in absolute terms producing total crap. I'm sure it'll get better, of course, but I'm happy to completely ignore it for now.