Splice is an innovative music platform that gives creators access to high-quality samples on demand. Their massive audio library is rich with metadata, making it easy for musicians, producers and DJs to find loops and one shots that match their existing project. Trouble is, you can filter by genre, BPM and key signature and still return hundreds of samples. A friend of mine was complaining about this recently and I pointed them to the Similar Sample feature. They were shocked that after years on| AudioCipher
You know that feeling when you come up with a melody, but forget it moments later? A classic trick is to record yourself humming the idea and build on the concept when you have time. But what if you could turn that poorly hummed melody into a realistic audio sample of a flute or violin performance? Tone Transfer is an online music app powered by machine learning and designed by Google’s Magenta Team. The app lets users upload audio of a single voice or instrument, then play it back through ...| AudioCipher
Meta's had a tough time getting people to buy into their VR Metaverse over the couple years, but all's not lost. The company has been making up for some of their missteps by offering free access to pre-trained models and open source artificial intelligence tools. Their move to introduce MusicGen in June 2023 was a direct challenge to Google's MusicLM team. Meta proved they could give users simple and controllable music generation based on any text description.During mid-March 2024, the music cop| 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
Celebrities lashed out at Apple this week in response to an advertisement for their new iPad Pro. The short promotional trailer depicted a trumpet, grand piano, guitar, and record player being slowly crushed by a hydraulic press. When the plates finally separated for the big reveal, all that remained was a thin, sleek Apple tablet. That didn't go over so well with artists in the anti-AI camp.Crush! | iPad Pro | AppleMany interpreted the ad as advocating for "crushing the arts" with technology. A| AudioCipher
There's been a surging interest in AI chat bots these past couple of years, but imagine how helpful it could be to have a full on AI bandmate!AI can take on any personality, so you can decide what kind of person you want to be creative with and then make music. When you get stuck, you have someone to talk to and share the ideas with. They can compose ideas in a given style and help you move a project along. AI Bandmates might not be able to solve every problem we have on day one, but they will b| AudioCipher
Creating a music video used to be a time consuming and expensive process. But in a world where our success is connected to presence on social media, people have started looking for new ways to create visual content to stands out from the crowd. AI music videos are one of the most popular choices in 2024. The video above is from Die Antwoord, an avant-pop group who turned their song Age of Illusion into an ai-generated animation. They are one of several major artists, alongside Linkin Park, to em| AudioCipher
Suno AI is the most controversial and polarizing generative AI music company in the world. They have been accused of stealing intellectual property from artists without remunerating labels, diluting the revenue streams from DSPs like Spotify and devaluing music as a whole. On the other hand, Suno was the first generative AI music app to show the world what this technology was truly capable of. No former competitor came anywhere near to compositional variety and quality of Suno. They challenged l| AudioCipher
The expression generative audio workstation refers to the future state of DAWs. As gen AI tools continue to diversify and become more powerful, there will be an almost unlimited number of ways to edit and experiment with sound. We're already seeing signs of this in the latest collaborative multiplayer DAWs. A handful of companies have made the first move to create and maintain GAWs for the public. In December 2023, FL Studio released a new AI mastering feature that took the internet by surprise| AudioCipher