I want to say two things -- one congrats - I am sure your team has been working exceptionally hard to develop this - and the songs sound reasonable good for AI! Two I am soo competely unenthusiastic about AI music and it infiltrating the music world - all of it sounds like fingernails on a chalkboard. Just mainstream overproduced low quality radio music. I know its a stepping stone but it kills me to listen to it right now.
That's because you didn't listen to the MIT license song. Gen music has the potential to make even the driest texts sound good, I didn't realize that before. How about paper abstract music? https://suno.com/song/cb729eb6-4cc5-4c15-ab74-0cdbef779684
80% of music is familiarity, 20% novelty, yet the majority of peoples' time goes into getting the 80% down so that they can add their 20%.
Look at current music production and compare it to past. Older music seems so much simpler. It was so much easier to come up with that 20% 'novel' when pop/recorded music was new. Ironically I think AI freeing people to focus on that 20% is going to add a lot of creativity to music, not reduce it.
I say this as someone who hates the concept of AI music. I'm actually really excited to see what it enables/creates (but I don't want to use it, even though I really could use it for vocals that I currently pay others to do for me).
I'll be here making my bad knockoffs of bad synth pop bands having fun and taking weeks to do 5% of what kids these days will start off as their entry point, with my 20% creativity ignored because my music sounds 'off' when I can't get the 80% familiar down.
People thought synthesizers were the end of music, yet Switched on Bach begot Jean Michel Jarre begot Kate Bush and on and on.
I would agree when AI gets to a point where it's possible to do that 20%. It is just not possible yet to combine it in such ways. Right now you basically get whatever music, but there's no way to add that 20%. Same with image/video generation. AI advancements have obviously been amazing and far beyond what I would've expected, but there's still ways to go.
Also, our model specifically excels at songs from the era before overproduction. Try asking for a Johnny Cash or Ella Fitzgerald-style country or swing/jazz song!
how does the model know how to do a johnny cash style? did you feed it johnny cash tracks? if so, what were the licensing terms? are you interested in answering these questions about training data or would this be too dodgy to chat about on a tech website?
