HookTheory is a music software company built for songwriters and composers. Their core interface is a colorful MIDI piano roll that supports melodies and chord charts. They have two major products available, including a free song directory called TheoryTab and a music creation tool called HookPad. TheoryTab hosts over 50,000 user generated transcriptions of popular songs across every genre. Site visitors can search for an artist, pick a song, and explore the underlying chords + melodies to see| AudioCipher
A musical cryptogram is a series of music notes generated from text. When someone refers to "the words of a song" we usually think of lyrics. But what if there was a second, more mysterious type of musical word? A word that was never spoken aloud and yet, could be heard by those with ears to hear...AudioCipher published a MIDI generator plugin in 2020 that lets users transform words into melodies and chord progressions. This VST is designed for use with a DAW and helps music producers overcome c| AudioCipher
The history of AI text-to-music apps can be traced back to a pivotal moment in April 2023, when WavTool's AI DAW debuted with a GPT-4 chat assistant. It was able to help compose midi, generate instruments, control effects, and run activities in the workstation through AI chat commands. WavTool announced a new round of features in January 2024 that got us excited to revisit the app and revamp this article. Then in June 2024, they launched a new stem splitting product called SunoDAW (apparently wi| AudioCipher
Neutone is one of those rare AI music companies that creates software around the needs of musicians instead of the general public. While most companies were building web browser applications and trying to "disrupt the industry", Neutone took a road less traveled and released free, high quality AI audio VSTs.Their first plugin version was developed by Japanese music tech company Qosmo back in May 2022. Neutone eventually branched off and became their own company. They have continued to make updat| AudioCipher
Over the past few months, we've been covering OpenAI applications like MuseNet and Jukebox. These are some of the most cutting edge AI music applications to date. But OpenAI wasn't the first company to venture into this space. Google started publishing generative music applications a few years earlier, under the name Magenta. The Magenta Team first presented the machine learning model at a Moogfest workshop in 2016. A year later, Google Brain researcher Douglas Eck gave the following talk on Ten| AudioCipher
Artificial intelligence is changing the way people create and listen to music. Anyone can boot up an AI song generator like Suno, Riffusion, VoiceMod and Udio to create original tracks in minutes. The broader category of text-to-music apps like our MIDI app AudioCipher have aimed to solve sample, chord and melody generation for music producers. They were built as creative inspiration tools that fit into your DAW workflow. AI text to song apps, on the other hand, seem to be driving toward the com| AudioCipher
