Making music using new sounds generated with machine learning
Magenta, a team within Google that combines machine learning with art and music, has come up with a new way to make music. NSynth Super is a simple interface that makes use of the NSynth algorithm to create countless new sounds. It uses deep learning to capture and understand a variety of instruments and later combine them to create new, previously unheard sounds.
NSynth doesn’t simply combine or blends sounds. It is able to create a new sound from scratch. During experimentation, NSynth super was able to create 100.000 new sounds from just 4 sources. Sounds exciting doesn’t it? Although NSynth Super is only a prototype, Google provides instructions on how you can make your own using Raspberry Pi and their open source code on GitHub.
Is Artificial Intelligence the new way to make music?
Well, no! At least not yet! After listening to the NSynth Super demo provided by Google, it is clear that we have a long way to go before we create actual music with the help of artificial intelligence. Their demo is mediocre and that’s putting it politely.
NSynth Super Demo