They are just very bland and a little musically incoherent. They pass the basic sniff test of, "this sounds like music" but the more you listen the more they fall apart. It's a good muzak generator, but that's about it.

Yeah, I agree. It's not going to replace modern music theory today or tomorrow, but I'm excited to play with this sort of thing in dynamic video game content generation. I'm envisioning a user giving a bit of information about their mood and then getting auto-generated music while they use an app briefly. What I heard here seems good enough to impress some people with that use case.

Don't ask where audio generation is now, ask where it was a year ago and then where it will be in a year from now. Or, say, in five years.

Remember all the people who said, in January and February of 2020, this "novel coronavirus" is not a big deal? Because it affected only a tiny amount of people? Because "much more people die from the flu"? The fallacy is that they ignored the speed at which it progressed.

I agree too, it’s passable filler

A friend was a full time jazz musician for years (he’s not famous but played with many/most of the big names in jazz) and said it < https://google-research.github.io/seanet/musiclm/examples/> was really interesting to him, musically. Sort of like the ideal for a jazz band, because you’ve got all independent instruments but coming together from a single “mind”.

That's an interesting perspective.

It seems like it's trained on entire soundwaves. I'm curious if you'd get a better result by training it on transcribed MIDI and then taking the output MIDI and plugging it into VST's.

Seems like you would still get that "central brain" compositional approach without the garbled sound quality and unidentifiable instrument noises.

The most impressive was actually the classical one.

From a music producer standpoint if that's the quality for classical music, could definitely create some samples.

Uh - no. That was classic (not classical) formless AI noodling on an orchestral bed.

It has multiple structural layers of a sort, which is progress over a few years ago. But they're still a long way short of the huge but intricate structures in real classical music.

I agree, but it's also really weird that such is the case. It's almost like "classical music" is some kind of code word prompting it to maintain a little musical coherence. The others break down rapidly after you listen to them for 5 seconds or so, but the classical-based one holds up a lot better.

Huh, I actually thought that one was the worst? Felt like it was small unconnected snippets…