Show HN: Catchy melodies made with a diffusion-based neural net assistant I've created a diffusion-based neural net generative assistant that makes creating new melodies much easier, even for non-musicians like me. These are meant to be just the catchy "hook" parts of songs, so more work is required to make them into full songs, but this is already handled well by existing products (e.g. there are plugins that can suggest a few possible chord progressions based on the melody and there is even good singing software that I used without any tweaks to make the “voice” playlist: Synthesizer V Studio). This side project turned out to be quite challenging because of how little data there is to train on - several orders of magnitude less than DALL-E or GPT-3 had available for its training, so it required a deep dive into research of new generalization and augmentation techniques and some feature engineering. Various other instruments: Voice: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoCzMRqh5SkE1yC8_WtJ-... Synth: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoCzMRqh5SkFj7RNZvjr7... Bell: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoCzMRqh5SkEYHYvHX9m9... Guitar: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoCzMRqh5SkGKvfkP2Oex... Sax: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoCzMRqh5SkHfsZgzzdSh... Grand Piano: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoCzMRqh5SkFMch5x60uh... SoundCloud electric piano: https://ift.tt/9oWQX3i... SoundCloud vocal: https://ift.tt/9oWQX3i... https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoCzMRqh5SkFwkumE578YO4qa1NTkmMi4 May 12, 2022 at 12:30AM
Show HN: Tape It, iOS recording app for musicians Hello HN, Over the last 15 months, two friends and I developed the music recording app we felt we wanted based on our own needs as musicians. It's called Tape It [1] and has just recently hit the Apple App Store [2]. We put a lot of effort into a good UX to help musicians really focus on playing their instrument instead of pretending to be a recording engineer. The app records in stereo on newer iPhones (although that's a premium feature; the free version only records in standard mono audio quality). I would be really grateful for advice from this community on how to best approach marketing. We had a great TechCrunch article covering our launch [3], and we posted it on various music websites. Turns out advertising on Google or Apple Search is a dark art, though. We have some good ideas for developing a good social media presence, but they will take time. Please hit us with feedback, opinions and advice that you think a young ind...
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