Music-making AI software advanced so much in the past few years that today it is a viable tool that can and is being used by producers to help in the creative process.
September 19th, 2018
Using AI as a tool to make music or aid musicians have been in practice for over a decade. In the ‘90s, David Bowie helped develop an app called the Verbasizer, which took the literary source material and randomly reordered the words to create new combinations that could be used as lyrics.
In 2016, researchers at Sony used software called Flow Machines to create a melody in the style of The Beatles. This material was then turned over to human composer Benoît Carré and developed into a fully produced pop song called “Daddy’s Car.” (Flow Machines was also used to help create an entire album’s worth of music under the name SKYGGE, which is Danish for “shadow.”)
On a consumer level, the technology is already integrated with popular music-making programs like Logic, a piece of software that is used by musicians around the world, and it can auto-populate unique drum patterns with the help of AI.
All of the uses mentioned above of AI in music, raises the question: could artificial intelligence one day replace musicians?
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This article is a re-post, with small modifications, of “How AI-Generated Music Is Changing The Way Hits Are Made” an article published on theverge.com by Dani Deahl
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