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Adobe shared this sneak preview of a new project that promises to be a sort of AI-powered Photoshop for audio.

Project Music GenAI Control, an experimental project from Adobe Research, lets users generate music from text prompts, and then provides fine-grained control to edit that audio for their precise needs.

The new tools begin with a text prompt fed into a generative AI model. A user inputs a text prompt, like “powerful rock,” “happy dance,” or “sad jazz” to generate music. Once the tools generate music, fine grained editing is integrated directly into the workflow.

Users can transform their generated audio based on a reference melody; adjust the tempo, structure, and repeating patterns of a piece of music; choose when to increase and decrease the audio’s intensity; extend the length of a clip; re-mix a section; or generate a seamlessly repeatable loop.

“One of the exciting things about these new tools is that they aren’t just about generating audio—they’re taking it to the level of Photoshop by giving creatives the same kind of deep control to shape, tweak, and edit their audio. It’s a kind of pixel-level control for music,” explains Nicholas Bryan, Senior Research Scientist at Adobe Research.

Project Music GenAI Control is being developed in collaboration with colleagues at the University of California, San Diego, and at the School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University. Details on availability are to be announced, but Adobe describes this it ‘an early-stage generative AI music generation and editing tool’.

Synthesis Matt Johnson (Jamiroquai) – In his latest video – explores the SOMA Laboratory COSMOS Drifting Memory Station.

Designer Vlad Kreimer has said that the COSMOS is designed to work with meditative states through music:

“The design of the controls, functions and generated soundscapes are intended to evoke, in both performer and listener, states and experiences inherent in meditation, such as limitless space, fluidity, spontaneous development, presence, the ability to hear, tranquility, the experience of subtle harmony and happiness enveloping the whole world.”

From a functional point of view, COSMOS is a large array of sound memory, in which recorded sounds undergo constant recombinations, spontaneously generating an ever-changing soundscape. This is achieved in three ways — by a mathematical shift based on the relationships between large prime numbers (the size of all delay lines are different primes), an asynchronous operation of the LFO, and modulation with a slowly changing chaotic signal. As a result, it allows the endless layering and processing of various sounds, as in a looper, but without an intrusive, repetitive loop.

COSMOS generates rich, fluid and evolving soundscapes perfect for ambient music. Using COSMOS, you can play an entire meditative solo concert while being in a spontaneous flow and without using studio-prepared sequences, backing tracks and other things that can’t be a reflection of the “here and now”.

Johnson says that it’s a “super interesting” effect that “gives instant Frippertronic vibes”.

Watch the demo, and share your thoughts on the COSMOS in the comments!

Image-Line has announced that it has teamed up with Native Instruments to bring bundles of NI’s effects and virtual instruments to FL Studio.

Two bundles are available:

• KOMPLETE Collection for FL Studio – The KOMPLETE Collection for FL Studio offers 12 instruments, modern classic synths and effects, mix and vocal polishing tools, and mastering. Includes: Massive X, Empire Breaks, Feel It, Utopia, Lo-Fi Glow, Bite, Dirt, Freak, Ozone 11 Elements, Nectar 4 Elements, Neutron Elements, Guitar Rig 7 LE
• KOMPLETE Signature Series for FL Studio – This features 15 instruments and effects. Includes: Massive X, Ozone 11 Standard, Guitar Rig 7 Pro, Vocalsynth 2, Nectar 4 Elements, Neutron Elements, Empire Breaks, Feel It, Utopia, Lo-Fi Glow, Cloud Supply, Duets, Bite, Dirt, Freak

Video of FL Studio user Larry Ohh working with the plugins:

 

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Through March 19th, 2024, the bundles are available for 85% off. Details available on the Image-Line website.