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"it's just sounds"
So, straying from the conversation about AI music being good or whatever. This is the part of AI music that perplexes me the most. So like... Audio is a wave. You can take a sine wave, and a square wave and layer them on top and you get a sine wave with some square edges because it's both sounds. Different frequencies for different pitches, all of that.
When AI makes music, is it just drawing that wave? If so, that's fucking crazy. Like I could understand if it used some ingested music theory to write chords and a melody, then turn them into MIDI, then run those through a synth plugin. But AI doesn't have a synth plugn. It just knows what a synth plugin sounds like through analasys of sound waves, right? Like AI can't "hear" music. It doesn't know what a cello sounds like. It just knows what the sample point values of a waveform of a cello sounds like. But then if you tell the AI to add an instrument. Let's say an electric guitar. It knows how to re-draw that wave to actually make that sound. To add reverb? To add compression? Then more instruments?
If that's how it actually works, that blows my god damned mind. No human could ever write a song by drawing a line on paper and scanning it in. I suppose they could, but it would be some avant garde experimental thing, not something that sounds like actual instruments. Like I don't think a human could ever figure out how to draw the sound of fingers sliding down the frets of an acoustic guitar between the actually strumming of a guitar.
It's fucking bonkers.
Not even waves just ones & zeros, creating a map. Yeah it's crazy.
I do wonder if the visual representation of music sounds like that would look like art.
See music notes as letters and different type of sound (trumpet, piano, guitar, etc) as a style of writing.
LLMs being good at processing text, music is adjacent to this. Music styles tend to have common elements between them and the LLMs can be trained on the similarities and to predict them, just like text prediction.