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As somebody who embraces technologies with a passion and has made electronic music for over 20 years this may be the worst idea I’ve ever seen. The only possible use I see is people who want generic sounding beats for a YouTube video.

Honestly, the AI start ups YC is funding appear uniformly bad ideas. Weird.

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That's a strange take. I would argue this is MUCH better than every single person using the exact same 10 samples from the same library.

You can't think of ANY creative uses for this? After 20 years? It's just another tool, just like early hip hop sampling -> drum machines -> midi controllers -> etc etc

My problem with a lot of this stuff is what makes music the universal language is it isn’t made of words, it is made of sounds.

Using human language as an interface to the world of music defeats the entire point of the exercise. Neither of the founders is a professional musician, it’s missing the point of what it means to make music on so many levels.

I'm not sure if you had the chance to read our post, but one of our core insights is that very idea. Specifically, that words aren't always the best way to communicate what you need when writing music, and so our new product (the Infinite Sample Pack) enables folks to create new sounds without the need for text.

Also, it will be a real disappointment to Diandre when I tell him that his years of touring and releasing 100+ songs don't amount to him being a professional musician.

Fair enough. It’s not for me, but maybe somebody else likes it.

Apologies for the tone.

The appeal of prompting a whole song into existence kind of baffles me for the same reasons you are suggesting but there’s room for fun and creativity in working with samples and given the substantial cottage industry that royalty-free samples already are this was pretty much the first application I was expecting to see in the audio GenAI realm.

Very much agreed! Our goal is to facilitate that fun and creativity that comes from playing with samples :)

It really takes the soul out of making music. Why would you want a computer to design the sound for you? You don't learn anything, you can't honestly claim you made it or expressed yourself, and it won't truly be novel because the model is spewing out stuff based on what already exists.

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