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[DragoonKain]

I'm not a musician, but I have had RPG song melodies in my head for quite some time and decided to use AI to help me arrange them. You might notice some Motoi Sakuraba inspiration there in a couple of these tracks. Also some other inspirations in there just from years of listening to movie and game soundtracks. I came up with the melodies and had AI software help me arrange them into a song.

If you're willing to listen, let me know what you think. I'm not some composer, so don't expect them to be professional quality, but they turned out better than I had even expected before I set out to try this. I linked the playlist.

 

[Davevil]

no

 

[MALpractice311]

AI generated garbage.

 

[March Climber]

Cut out the first 8 seconds of the first track, and change it all to 0.80 speed. Then refine that version.

Same with the second song, make it 0.80 speed and refine how it sounds.

Third song is fine at 1.0 speed, but it just sounds too crunchy. It also needs a second passover.

Fourth song is fine at 1.0 speed, change the kazoo-sounding instrument to something else, unless you want that 'genesis fart-like sfx' sound.

Fifth song is fine, but I might remove the odd vocals or re-record over them with actual human vocals.

 

[Draugoth]

Sorry man, albeit AI is impressive, I'm heavily against it.

After I read this I 99% ditched AI, companies running these models are E V I L

If you're willing to listen, let me know what you think. I'm not some composer, so don't expect them to be professional quality

The Machine basically does all the work. It's basically a slot machine in that regard, you don't have full control over what's being created. I'm pretty sure if you were a professional you could do better.

I'm not a musician, but I have had RPG song melodies in my head for quite some time and decided to use AI to help me arrange them.

Funnily enough, because of AI I'm thinking of getting back into art. I looked at the feedback and some stuff AI created and I thought 'You know what, I might try this for myself, thanks ChatGPT', too bad what I wrote is probably permanently stored somewhere waiting to leak.

 

[DragoonKain]

Sorry man, albeit AI is impressive, I'm heavily against it.

After I read this I 99% ditched AI, companies running these models are E V I L



The Machine basically does all the work. It's basically a slot machine in that regard, you don't have full control over what's being created. I'm pretty sure if you were a professional you could do better.



Funnily enough, because of AI I'm thinking of getting back into art. I looked at the feedback and some stuff AI created and I thought 'You know what, I might try this for myself, thanks ChatGPT', too bad what I wrote is probably permanently stored somewhere waiting to leak.

It was just for fun, I'm not trying to actually compose a gaming soundtrack. If I was I wouldn't use AI. I just wanted to mess with the software and was thinking of the types of music I could make and went with RPG sounding tracks.

 

[TintoConCasera]

Not a fan of how it sounds but the melody is cool. Could work for a sort of melancholic boss fight.

 

[DragoonKain]

I paid for a month's subscription so I was making a bunch of shit. In 10 years this technology is going to be insane. Not sure if that's a good or a bad thing, but definitely impressed with where it is so far.

 

[Draugoth]

It was just for fun, I'm not trying to actually compose a gaming soundtrack. If I was I wouldn't use AI. I just wanted to mess with the software and was thinking of the types of music I could make and went with RPG sounding tracks.

Completely understandable. 90% of people messed with AI for fun, like in that Ghibli Studio Viral thing. But nowadays I'm very scared of using it

Spoiler: Spoiler

These models can steal and train from your work , if you cherish something you created, it's advised never to share it to AI

I agree that these models are really good to give you an idea on what you want and can get you inspired.

I paid for a month's subscription so I was making a bunch of shit. In 10 years this technology is going to be insane. Not sure if that's a good or a bad thing, but definitely impressed with where it is so far.

It's likely the future will be very similar from today, but most of popular AI models will run locally. But you never know, we didn't think this technology would be possible 10 years ago.

Unless these companies find how to make profit and how to decrease energy consumption, it's likely most of the market will go extinct within 2-3 years unless we see new architeture.

 

[TintoConCasera]

Yeah, never copy & paste your own work on an AI chat prompt folks.

 

[DragoonKain]

Completely understandable. 90% of people messed with AI for fun, like in that Ghibli Studio Viral thing. But nowadays I'm very scared of using it

Spoiler: Spoiler

These models can steal and train from your work , if you cherish something you created, it's advised never to share it to AI

I agree that these models are really good to give you an idea on what you want and can get you inspired.



It's likely the future will be very similar from today, but most of popular AI models will run locally. But you never know, we didn't think this technology would be possible 10 years ago.

Unless these companies find how to make profit and how to decrease energy consumption, it's likely most of the market will go extinct within 2-3 years unless we see new architeture.

I wouldn't have if it was something sacred. These are just melodies I had stuck in my head. Nothing special to me.

 

[StereoVsn]

Yeah, never copy & paste your own work on an AI chat prompt folks.

You can get say Enterprise or Teams or whatever work version is called by a particular provider. They don't train on that unless you opt in. Cost will be much higher of course. Oh, and Edu versions are cheaper / free (for students) and they don't train on that data.

The above is for OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Microsoft. There are agent based companies, aggregators and so on, but read the fine print.

If it's free, they are training on your input. And of course don't use Chinese models on their own sites (paid or not), you are better off using an intermediary with appropriate controls or local versions.

 

[Lord Panda]

It was just for fun, I'm not trying to actually compose a gaming soundtrack. If I was I wouldn't use AI. I just wanted to mess with the software and was thinking of the types of music I could make and went with RPG sounding tracks.

I thought your melodies were solid for being AI-generated. Honestly it wouldn't be too out of place in some random game.

Also ignore the noise from people trashing the use of AI. You're not a musician - so wtf were you supposed to do, magically compose like Mozart? These tools open up pathways to creativity and expression that would've been completely out of reach otherwise.

To keep the purists happy, it's actually perfect as a prototyping or concepting tool - something you can sketch ideas with before handing them off to a real musician for polish and production.

 

[Fess]

Cool idea!

I've never used AI for music myself but maybe I should. I probably have thousands of riffs recorded but not many complete songs. I'm too old to make a living on it anyway so don't care if AI steals it.

Anyway I heard the first one. The fast sections sounds far too chaotic imo, possibly not suitable for synths, I don't think it works tbh.
But the slow melodic parts were really good, I would've stayed on those longer, make the whole song around those melodies. If you can come up with nice sweeping melodies yourself then use that, you're halfway there already, if AI can help you flesh that out then go for it.