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ryanontheinside··on Show HN: Demon – open-source real-time music diffusion engine, 25Hz local GPU
oh and as for time - this is several months of work, but is the culmination of several years of audio adjacent genai work
ryanontheinside··on Show HN: Demon – open-source real-time music diffusion engine, 25Hz local GPU
lets talk philosophy, bro
ryanontheinside··on Show HN: Demon – open-source real-time music diffusion engine, 25Hz local GPU
biggest unexpected unlock i would have to say is the shared mutable curves that bypass the ringbuffer drain. i wouldnt have thought of that without the throughput that preceded it
ryanontheinside··on Show HN: Demon – open-source real-time music diffusion engine, 25Hz local GPU
thank you kindly
ryanontheinside··on Show HN: Demon – open-source real-time music diffusion engine, 25Hz local GPU
Good question. First and foremost, Magenta is autoregressive, and this is not. Practical differences: THIS: - has more controls; output can be highly custom - has very fast response time for updating controls; this approaches real time - runs on consumer cards - is optimized for loops, and full songs, not continuous infinite music

MAGENTA: - can generate music forever, it plainly wins here - has fewer controls - has high parameter update latency (chunks of 2 seconds) - I did get magenta to fit on a 5090, but just barely

ryanontheinside··on Show HN: Two-week creative lab for developers building with real-time AI video
these autoregressive models are wild