To musically trained people, this is so weird. From the page:
"Imagine singing a melody to create a horn line, transforming chords from a MIDI keyboard into a realistic vocal choir, or adding an instrumental accompaniment to a vocal track."
This is what composers do! It's not hard, it requires a journeyman level of skill and training. I guess it will change how non-musicians create really bad music though?
I'm not saying it's not a game changer - the crappy library music world is running on borrowed time. But positioning this as revolutionizing music production is just bizarre. It's not solving the problems that one faces trying to write good music - it's just making the simplest steps faster. And only significantly faster for the untrained.
I'm a bit confused why so many models seem to focus on text-to-audio.. what use is an mp3 in a composition? I just need the notation. One could take an avant garde approach and find ways to make use of the audio outputs, but that doesn't necessarily serve "normal" music.
One can only assume they have decided their market is people who want to type some stuff in and then pat themselves on the back for "composing". It's all accompanied by ballyhoo about "democratizing music production".... which happened in the late nineties when you could run a DAW on a home machine.
This has nothing more to do with democratizing music production then audio to text has to do with democratizing writing a novel!
"Imagine singing a melody to create a horn line, transforming chords from a MIDI keyboard into a realistic vocal choir, or adding an instrumental accompaniment to a vocal track."
This is what composers do! It's not hard, it requires a journeyman level of skill and training. I guess it will change how non-musicians create really bad music though?
I'm not saying it's not a game changer - the crappy library music world is running on borrowed time. But positioning this as revolutionizing music production is just bizarre. It's not solving the problems that one faces trying to write good music - it's just making the simplest steps faster. And only significantly faster for the untrained.