Real Future Of AI in Music: Production Copilot Coming To Your DAW?

Some generative dub, using an early version of an upcoming generative audio tool.

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Oh man, sounds good. What kind of tool is that nendo, what does it do exactly?

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It is unfortunately more complex than that: the output is based on what the algorithm generates given the data on which it was trained and also given your input, if any is required. So if the train data set contains copyrighted material, that’s what it will potentially use for the output.

“Fixing the copyright issue” means that you would either need to feed the algorithm with data based on a free-to-use licence (e.g. creative commons), or have the algorithm check the output for similarity with copyrighted material and “punish” it when it gets too close.
The former reduces the quality of the AI’s output because there is less free data to train on, while the latter is not foolproof because it suffers from the lack of definition (how close is too close?) and the quality of the underlying database.

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Some info here:
https://okio.ai/generatedwithnendo/

welp, sorry musicians. you had a good run

https://twitter.com/zackhargett/status/1656812761324875776

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I can’t stop thinking about the modular manufacturers that were afraid of people participating in NGNY or similar, with DAW and AI probably many more and even larger manufacturers are going to change or even go out of business…

Hopefully I’ll be able to give my AI copilot an 8bit jazz sample and just sit there drinking whisky and saying, “zoom in, stop. Enhance from 0:02 to 0:12, stop. Enhance bassline, stop.”

etc etc

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