The Infinite Drum Machine

Here’s an opera music generator from the same site that I’ve spent an embarrassingly large amount of time playing with: https://experiments.withgoogle.com/blob-opera

jtbayly• 5 years ago

Very fun. Thanks for sharing.

amelius• 5 years ago

Reminds me of FruityLoops.

finger• 5 years ago

Doesn’t work for me on iOS. Just says Loading when I open the page.

andybak2• 5 years ago

Built by Kyle McDonald, Manny Tan, Yotam Mann, and friends at Google Creative Lab.

Pretty sure Cabbibo did something remarkably similar a couple of years ago: https://store.steampowered.com/app/694550/Audio_Forager/

andybak2• 5 years ago

Cabbibo actually replied on Twitter. All looks above board: https://twitter.com/Cabbibo/status/1373794380700524550?s=20

globular-toast• 5 years ago

It's funny, but hard to make anything sound good due to inconsistent hit points in the samples. Even with a very simple pattern nothing sounds very rhythmic to my ears.

borepop• 5 years ago

Yeah honestly it's pretty weak compared to an actual music sequencing DAW like FL Studio or even an app like Patterning 2.

Slow_Hand• 5 years ago

What do you suppose they mean when they call it "infinite"?

I'm not seeing much description of what the concept behind the project is supposed to be.

Shizus• 5 years ago

It's in a loop

LegitShady• 5 years ago

this is true for every sequencer I've used so far

kortex• 5 years ago

I think it's supposed to be some kind of latent vector space where the coordinate maps to the sounds' timbre. So in theory, you can move seamlessly between sounds. But I seem to only be able to snap to nearest sound. Edit: they use t-SNE for the embedding so that is why it is discrete. But if they used something like an autoencoder, then you could have a smooth continuum and interpolate between say a dog bark and a billiards clack.

Gys• 5 years ago

No sound on my iphone x

JansjoFromIkea2• 5 years ago

Usually with these things I've to actively turn off the silent switch on my iPhone for audio to be enabled. Definitely if it's a Tone.js app, which it probably is?

They should be able to detect it's an iphone and issue an warning message for that though seeing as a lot of people will have that switch enabled

laybak• 5 years ago

Nice! Has anyone figured out a good way to export the sounds and the MIDI?

tgv• 5 years ago

Sounds are loaded via http, so copy the link and use curl. E.g. https://experiments.withgoogle.com/ai/drum-machine/view/audi... and https://experiments.withgoogle.com/ai/drum-machine/view/meta.... I don't think there's any MIDI.

deathanatos• 5 years ago

Doesn't seem to have a lot of … drums?

No hi hat, no tom tom. No "taiko" drums which I realize is a bit broad. "Cymbals" nets me three "percussion finger bells" (okay, technically, I suppose?) and one "percussion drums".

Some snare and timpani…

hollowcelery• 5 years ago

The results sound a lot like the techno that Wishmountain (aka Matthew Herbert) was making with household objects a few years back

Wishmountain - Radio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aM1mN91YDgw

Wishmountain - Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2CV8m4u16E

chrisweekly• 5 years ago

Hey thanks for the clue; that Wishmountain drum track is awesome! :)

oliv__• 5 years ago

The website is super smooth and the experience is great! Wonder what it's built with...

nmfisher• 5 years ago

Looks like three.js with WebGL.

peterfield2• 5 years ago

Why is there even "AI" in the url? It's a funny "thing", but there is nothing in there related to AI is there?

bckr• 5 years ago

see kortex' t-SNE related comment below

peterfield2• 5 years ago

Thx

alex_duf• 5 years ago

I'm guessing the classification might have been done by an AI?

khattak• 5 years ago

das

mike_d• 5 years ago

"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should."

r0b05• 5 years ago

This is freaking amazing and so intuitive.

fab1an• 5 years ago

Meh. This is an extremely basic drum machine / step sequencer with a larger number samples, and I'm pretty sure I've seen the "sample cloud" approach lots of times by now in various VSTs. Probably still fun for folk with zero exposure to music production!

JansjoFromIkea2• 5 years ago

This is a fairly basic interface, I'm kind of surprised there hasn't been more of a scene of making unusual music interfaces in the format of Electroplankton on the Nintendo DS.

It does seem to be one of those things where the people with the musical knowledge to potentially make super creative interfaces have gotten so deep into the technical side of things that they struggle to make intuitive UIs.

Electroplankton example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BexGR0OQF-I

The Infinite Drum Machine

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