This is what I'm hoping for :

1- A lot of options to influence/edit the generated output. What AUTOMATIC1111 is building for Stable Diffusion is the right direction (open extensions and manoeuvrability). I hope harmonai will get the same treatment.

2- Smaller minimum training requirements and simple retraining workflows. AudioLM is outstanding in this regard (but fails the first point)

3- Prod-level quality for end-user tools : Style/tone transfer and cloning plugins like DDSP-VST, mawf and yours (RAVE) sounds at best like DALLE-1 level quality. do you think we could make a DALLE-2 kind of jump soon?

And we do indeed lack public gathering places for this scene ! (or do we ?)

Here is a personal list I made of some AI Music creation tools: https://rentry.co/Music-Creation-AI-Tools

Merci IRCAM !

I can definitely see Spotify taking something like this and generating songs based on your likes/seeds, especially for edm music.

I'd love to get connected. I've been working on an online DAW interface to make trying out these models more approachable. It also currently contains many useful heuristic based generative models. https://neptunely.com -- see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T93tfPgKhhA for a recent demo of the generative radio station.

Do you know of any online community gathering places for this scene? Subreddit? Discord server?

This is some really interesting work. Do you happen to have any other good links to see state of the art kind of stuff here? Most of what I happen across seems to be based on MIDI patterns rather than audio.

I was hunting around for such a scene. Thanks for getting me connected.