Combobulator (AI powered resysnthesis)

Pier said:

Richard Devine shared this thing on Twitter. It's pretty crazy.

DataMind Audio | Unparalleled Real-time Neural Synthesis

datamindaudio.ai

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Wow that shit is insane! That thing really does sound like the death of humanity right there. It sounds disturbing and insane like the thoughts echoing inside the mind of a mad man.

No judgement if it's good or not just interesting for me right now.

I messaged them to ask if there’s a way to demo. There isn’t and they’re not planning to have it in future

Looking at the demos, I suspect this is going to be like morphing in terms of how useful the output is. 90% of the time it just sounds rubbish until you hit on a combination that works.

I think they've probably tried to bite off too much at once by training it on full track segments or stems (at least that's the impression I got) and then applying full stems to the input. So it winds up trying to match things that are rhythmically incompatible to a rhythmic input and it just breaks down into something that sounds like a CD skipping.

It may be that the demos are badly thought out and it does better on simpler inputs to get material you can then import into a sampler. Or you just mess around with it for a while with a recorder running and hope for happy accidents.

Interesting technology. But I didn't hear anything interesting up to now. Is it just me?

Saxer said:

Interesting technology. But I didn't hear anything interesting up to now. Is it just me?

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Perfect for scoring your next Zombie flick.

I imagine one would want to train this on one's own work and use it as a form of self-torture.

Bee_Abney said:

I imagine one would want to train this on one's own work and use it as a form of self-torture.

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Now I'm intrigued.

Crappy AI implementations like this are probably the broken VHS tape aesthetic of the 2060s. Entire swarms of AI composer bots will be searching for preset packs that sound exactly like this, on behalf of their sentient Spotify overlords.

"Farm to table AI"

I didn't know that Delos Corp recently branched into agriculture

Am I the only deranged fuck that actually liked the nightmarish sound of this?

José Herring said:

Wow that shit is insane! That thing really does sound like the death of humanity right there. It sounds disturbing and insane like the thoughts echoing inside the mind of a mad man.

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Yes it almost sounds autobiographical in my case!

Before I settled on kgdrum as a screen name many years back I actually went by kglovesnoise.

So truth be told,this doesn’t sound like something that could be used often but for me it sounds really interesting in a bizarre twisted way for that special moment where you want something really special for a Christmas song or a ballad!

kgdrum said:

Am I the only deranged fuck that actually liked the nightmarish sound of this?

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Huh... no.

gamma-ut said:

sounds like a CD skipping

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this.

(not saying thats not something i like now and then.)

[Loads up Pan Sonic - A]

You too can sound like a highly sensitive part of your anatomy got caught in the Vitamix.

Alchemedia said:

You too can sound like a highly sensitive part of your anatomy got caught in the Vitamix.

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Maybe they should change the name to comknobulator








I'll see myself out.