A couple of weeks ago, we talked about creative approaches to film music and sound design. Then, my colleague Nino Leitner came to work with a fully AI-generated CineD song in his hands that didn’t at all resemble abstract mechanical noise but rather a real music track. I wonder, how far have these tools advanced over the previous year? What is the current state of development in this area? Can AI music generators already compose a film score? Let’s test a bunch of them and find out! It’s been a while since I wrote about MusicLM from Google and MusicGen from Meta – the two biggest applications for AI music generation at the time. Testers of these tools were not happy back then. “Sounds horrible,” “melodies are random,” and “chord progressions don’t make any sense” – these are just a few comments I can remember. However, AI training doesn’t stop. Roughly a year later, generated tracks are worlds apart from the results we got before. For one, artificial intelligence learned how to “sing.” AI music generators: a huge leap Before we unwrap new and popular tools, let’s take a look at already familiar ones. For instance, Google’s MusicLM model doesn’t exist anymore. Instead, developers listened to all the feedback so they were able to integrate and launch MusicFX. They still call it a “generative AI text-to-music experiment,” as it is their area of AI research and a tool in Beta phase. MusicFX can produce tunes 30, 50, or 70 seconds...
Published By: CineD - Wednesday, 29 May, 2024