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1. Intro: Hi, Are you curious
about generative AI, especially when it
comes to music? Well, if you are, you're at the right place. Hi, I'm Jordan. And I am so curious
and excited by generative AI and
especially its application when it comes to music. For the past couple of years, generative AI has been a huge topic of conversation
all over the world. Especially because of chat PT and everything
it's been able to do for us in the world of writing and pictures and
all kinds of things. And it has led to
the development of a lot of technologies. Well, music is no exception. Ai artists have been
blowing up the world. Especially in countries
like Japan and the US. Where AI artists have overtaken Spotify are selling our
concerts and arenas. It's been unbelievable
the progression of generative AI over the
past couple of years. For us normal people, it's been a bit difficult
to get involved. The process by which
we've been able to make AI music has
been complicated. Not so easy, and the quality
has been just awful. But lately it has gotten much easier for us
to get involved. The quality has
improved a lot and the methods by which we make the music have
gotten a lot easier. So if you're curious about
generative AI music, let's get started today
in making our own, we are going to make our own music and then
we're going to clean it up using some conventional
methods and plug ins that I would
use for any other music. We're going to make it on the
platform that I trust the most as it stands now
in January of 2024. Of course, technology is always changing and
updating and improving, so we're going to have
to keep our fingers on the pulse and update as
the technology does. But the music that AI has been able to make has
been so exciting. I mean, just listen to what I've been able to make with
AI just recently. Consationuch. I mean it speaks for itself. I mean, who doesn't want to make music like that and if you don't have sings at
your disposal but AI can sing for you,
I mean, why not? So if that sounds
interesting for you, if you feel like you're
someone that wants to make AI music and wants to get
involved, I mean, join me. Let's make some AI
music together. Let's get ourselves some
awesome Beats moment. We've got a phone.
2. Getting Started: For the music we're going
to be making today, we are going to use Sono, that's N. I have
found that that has been the most
reliable source for AI music right now
in January of 2024. Previously you had to make
their music on discord. You had to go into their discord and you had to make
the music that way. And it was, it was a trial, but now we've got the web
version and it's awesome. No app yet, but web
version is just fine. You want to type this into
the web browser, press enter, get into their website, you're going to be met
with a splash page. And you just click
on the top right, make a song and
it's going to load the apps web based app. Now once you're in,
well in my case, you're going to see
all the songs you've previously made as
well as Explore, create, and library Library has got everything
you've made before. Creates your way of creating and to find what other
people have made previously. Now down the bottom, toward the left, you're
going to see my credits. Credits is an
interesting system. Basically, you have
enough credits currently with the
current system that you can generate
five times per day. This is enough to make
a song each day as long as you're not
too picky about what's in the or how
the song sounds. Because every time you generate, it's going to
automatically make you a melody in a baseline and progression a sound To get a new one you have
to regenerate again. And each time it uses credits, you have enough credits
to do that five times per day for free. This is enough for
a lot of people. That's fine. But if you're
like me and you want to keep generating
and you want to keep playing with it,
it's not enough. You can get a subscription. Here you can see the prices. It's right now, $8 a month for the pro and then
$24 a month for the premier. I can't imagine anyone
really needing the premier. I don't know why you
would need that much, but the pro level
is pretty awesome. Okay, once we are going
to create the songs, we're going to do so
by clicking Create. Making an account is
pretty easy to logged in. I just made an account
with my e mail. It's really funny, when
I made my account, it had the option to
sign up with Google. I did. I click sign
up with Google. On Google's end, it said, This website is not
verified with us, this isn't going to work
And then it kicked me out, so I just sign up through
my e mail, the manual way. All right, now we're
in create. All right. Sweet. Let's make some songs.
3. Generating AI: Now there's a couple of
ways we can do this. Make a song, this information, this is how it is
in January of 2024. But we'll need
updating sooner or later because it is
progressing all the time. You can watch guides from
last month that are outdated. There's a couple of ways and the first way is going
to be the simplest, which is to use chat chat
GPT to give you some lyrics. I structured my chat GBT
lyrics already using these bracket types to tell so how I want the
song to be structured. I've noticed that as of now it recognizes intro verse and
chorus, but that's it. I'm not having any luck with
anything else such as bridge or Altro for now, at least. Intro verse and chorus is
what you're going to have in this part where I have a
separate bridge and chorus. I've just got it here
as two choruses. Yes. I asked chat GPT to make me a song about
skillshare because why not? That's what this is for, right? I'm going to copy this
and paste it into here. We're in Sono now we're
going to go to custom mode, put the lyrics in just
like this style of music. I'm going to say it is female. I generally like
the female AI voice better female EDM dance track, High energy, Happy, Create. It'll always give
us two options. Let's see what we got. I should have mentioned that you
can put a title in. The title will have an
influence on the art that it generates for you,
but I didn't do that. Anyway, it'll take a couple
of minutes or maybe 1 minute, and it will make the song, when you've put in so
many lyrics longer, it'll take, let's
see, the first one, no guides us shining through
the light. That's okay. Let's say the second one given knowledge, we'll reaching new heights. Skill show guides us
shining through the night. Thank you again. It's okay. But judging by the length, I can see that I don't think
it has made everything. I asked for intro verse, chorus, verse, chorus, chorus. It says it has the
winning beginning knowledge to be in new heights skin experience
for breaking the hole. No, it says it did, but it did. I guess right now
we're at a minute. 20 is the max that I can do, which is a good. There is another way
that we can create. We could use either
one of those. There is another way, which is we're going to start with just letting it go crazy. We're going to write in create a high energy EDM dance track about learning on
skillshare Create. Then let's see what it does. This is just the general
non custom mode. It can just go wild
with this mode. Oh my God, skill share high. I'm already obsessed
with this mode. It's going to be only
about 30 seconds long, and then we keep the
track going a few 30. The must be found, just for the only thing I don't like about this type of creation is that it seems to start halfway through something. See, I like it, but it doesn't start at the beginning.
It's not very useful. Yeah, a verse and a chorus. Otherwise it's good. I
love the name. Oh my gosh. Let's try. To do the same thing again, but just add an intro. I'll keep the intro
that's already there. Put the verse and
chorus in that it just came up with.
And then that's it. See if we can continue that, taking away the word happy. See if that leads
to a better result. Maybe I'll add the word trap. Let's see if that makes something
a bit more interesting. I forgot to re, use the name. Okay, we've got our new tracks. Let's see. To heights, shine the region start
to punk the knowledge. Still there's a world
of learning just for guides shining
through knowledge. Heights shine the region, start to unlock the
knowledge still. So there's a world of
learning just for you. Still shares to. All right. I'm happy
with that. We're happy. We've got 43 seconds of the beginning of the song.
Let's keep it going. Click these little dots We're going to continue
from this clip, takes us over to here. To continue it, we're going to need to generate our own lyrics. So I'm going to
delete what we have. Maybe I'll keep the chorus
going to copy that. Then delete the rest and
click, make random lyrics. See what it comes up
with, Roll those dice. Okay, we've got a verse,
we've got a chorus. Now I'm going to treat
that like a bridge and copy back in the
original chorus. Continue. Now see
it's coming up with two options for part
two, which is good. It's going to keep
that song going. Now we get to pick which
part two we want to use. This is actually my
favorite way to do it. It's a bit more random
then copying in an entire list of lyrics generated by Chat GPT
at the beginning. That's a favorite of people that want
to feel a bit more sure about how it's
going to turn out, they'll copy in those lyrics
and then they'll click Create 25 times until it comes up with a beat
that they're happy with. That is a good and
dependable way of doing it, but I like this way
each part is separate. It thinks about each
parts differently, although the song is
going to be really wild and unpredictable with each part being quite different
melodically, although that's not always
such a bad thing, you know. All right, it's done.
Let's see what we go. Walking through the knee on city lights where the stars
don't shine dreams at night. It's quite similar in style
more than I was expecting. Walking through the
knee on city lights with stars don't shine
dreams at night. Oh yeah. Everyone's hustling, trying to make the way in this
concrete jungle. Music I'm happy with that one. Click the dots again. Let's do it one more time. Continue from this, let's delete and one more time,
make random lyrics. It is using Chat GPT
technology on our behalf. Yeah, and chorus. I'm just going to put in our old chorus to finish up the song and
then that'll be it. I'm going to try again to make an outro and just see if it works out to should I
have one tea or two teas? I tried it with one
tea, it didn't work. Should just be one tea. I'm just going to
make it one tea. Okay, that would
be really crazy. Okay, let's do it part three and then I
reckon that's good. Three parts, although you can just keep going
as long as you want. It should be mentioned
on the free version, you get 50 points a day
or 50 credits a day. Ten credits per clip
per generation. So you can do this five times five clicking of the create
or Continue button per day. I obviously use
those up so quick. I paid for the $10 a
month subscription, which gets you 2.5
thousand credits. Still at ten credits
per generation. About 500 generations. I believe that's what I did. Those credits will
last me the month, this not per days, per month. 350 per day paid. 2,500 per month for someone
like me that wants to go mad in the city
streets on dreams. Bright lights around
those blinding beams. City streets on dreams, lights around blinding beams. All right. I'll like
that second one. Okay, we're done. I'm going to click the three
dots and click Get Song. It's going to put our
three selects all together into one
complete track. And we can download the AI generated video it's made for us, or the song or both. I'm going to download both. Then from there it's done. Then from there we can take
it into Ableton and do any mastering or quality fixes that we want to do,
whatever we feel like.
4. Enhancing the AI: All right, well here it is. I've dragged it into Ableton and it's already so impressive. I can't believe how good it is. So what I'm going to do
is I'm just going to add some stuff to kind of give it some extra punch and a
bit of extra clarity. Because as of how
things are right now, you do sacrifice a
lot of quality and a lot of depth in
these AI tracks. First, I'm going to
supplement the kick drum with just a general
kick clip that I have. I'm going to just drag it in, try to line it up, and then
just use it for the chorus. The chorus has quite
a strong kick. I want to supplement
it. All right? I only have to line it up once. I can just drag it across to the other chorus parts there. Yeah, I think the quality
of how it exports is what's keeping
regular people, composers, safe for the moment. I think companies can get high quality bounces from the AI every day.
People can't yet. It'll only exports an MP three. For now, it's just
a low quality sound to it that is temporary. Look at our fastest
technologies are calm. It wasn't so it was very recent that it
was even invented. Even more recent
that it's become available for everyday
people to play around with. All right, I'm going to put ozone over it and then just protect our ears from
being blown out. I'll just do it with ozones. Automatic assistant. Master assistant man,
I love this plug in. It's not free but it's
highly recommended. It just listens to
your track and has it so that things like
this get fixed. Okay, cool. Isn't
that just such a beautiful just sound
like it's just wild? Um, yeah. It's not going to be long until it doesn't need
fixes like this. Okay. What else can I do? Oh God, because the vocals
are pulled into it. I can't do my usual stuff
to improve the vocals. I can see if it will
improve the vocals if I isolate them and then try
to work on them a little bit, but I don't know how
much it's going to help. First, I'm going to use clarity. I'm a big fan of clarity. It's just going to
isolate the vocals. I'm just going to take, I'm just going to meet the first one. Knowledge still speak. Once the kick comes in. Man, it just, it works so hard it can't
find the vocals anymore. We lee, I don't know if this is kind
of like what I usually do. I would also, I would also put a Vd over the vocals as
well, but with them. Meshed in with the instruments.
It's hardly worth it. Let's put it all
together, all right. I do think it
helped a little bit and I think that ozone
has helped a bit as well. Overall messing with it in
Ableton hasn't done nothing. It has done a little bit. It's just so funny. All right? Yeah. So
this will be our track. I'll just play it
through one time so you can hear what
the whole thing sounds like we were given by
the AI gods in total. Quick, I figured something out. I'm going to go back
to our song here. I figured out that while
it doesn't stand out, it does understand intro. I tried this with
another song first. Let's see if it
works with our song. Let's put another intro onto the end of the song and
see if it acts like an out. We're going to continue
this clip once again, but this time from
the full song. We're going to make
random lyrics, see what it gives us, but it doesn't really matter
what it gives us. Because we're going to cut in our existing chorus, or
I need the word chorus. We're going to put in
our existing chorus, there's a verse there. We're going to cut it
short. Call it an intro. Put it on the end. Let's see, Now I tried this already, it still didn't give me a
very satisfying ending. I'm finding that no
matter what I do, I can't get a real ending
on any of these songs. The last time, the last
one, it just ended. Let's see what we can do
about that, if anything. All right, and continue from the top. I wake up the sun
shining to bring you. But I feel something,
I can work with that. Feel something in the air.
Oh my God, that's so creepy. Alright. I can work
with the first one, so once again get whole song. Let's copy that into
Ableton. All right? I've copied it in,
you can see it's much longer than the other one was. Let's make sure that the warp
is turned off. There we go. But it should still line up
with all of the things that we've already done came. Oh my God, Chop that
off. All right. I'm literally just going to cut it and then I'm going to make a new onto which I'm going
to add the last part. I've still got that
weird, creepy bit. All right, chop and
paste down here. And then on the new
track I'm going to put a reverb and then
just reverb it out. Perhaps. Swelling synth, Let's see, Not too bad. Just too loud. All right. Better than nothing. A week ago, the sun turning to bring. It's not perfect but
it's song length. It's doable. It's
definitely doable. All right. All
right, that's good. Let's, let's call it here. I'll put on a full version that you can watch
if you'd like to. Knowledge the rhythm. Knowledge of learning
just for you still shares some that is not. Camels never stop give walking through the knee
on city lights with stars, on shadow trains tonight. Oh yeah. Everyone's hustling, trying to make the way in this concrete jungle
where the music plays, lights got through the night, colors, sights in the world. Never speaks the form of life. Snoopy were skin. Next level level, hands on deck, ready to care
levels, never start. City streets, which
is non dreams. Bright lights around us blinds. And beams were
lost in the crowd, but it feels like home
dancing to the rhythm. We're never alone. The next level, hands will never stand a in the top in which is star we can met levels high. We were reaching
the top a week up. The sun is shining
a brand new day.
5. Onward Toward the Future: And that is it. We did it. We made music using
generative AI. Thank you so much for
joining me today. It's been a real pleasure to experiment with Sono with you and to fix up our beats and
add that extra kick and, you know, get skusher
high made together. I have no idea what I could
ever do with this track. I don't know if it has
any practical use at all, but it was fun to make and
it's fun to experiment. If you have the $8 a
month to play with. I recommend getting the pro plan and just keeping on
generating tracks and experimenting both with
writing your own lyrics and with using the lyrics that
the AI comes up with. I found that by putting it a prompt and having
it write lyrics, I've come up with some real
bangers and I've come up with some more
Duds than bangers. To be honest, it's
fun to play with experiment to get more
used to the technology. The important thing
to remember is that this technology
is the future. This is the future of composing. In my opinion, it's quite
a controversial topic. People don't want to think
of creativity in this way. They don't want to
think of the idea that the composing process and the creative process
is under threat by AI. But it is, I think
that the only way to future proof yourself
is to become familiar with this technology and
become someone that can manage it and grapple with it
and can run it that way. You're protecting yourself for
whatever the future holds. What if one day the
future of composing is managing AI is arranging what
the AI has come up with. Choosing between one melody and the next every 30 seconds and
stitching it all together. As I said already, quality
is holding this AI back. But for how long? Look how much we've gotten in such
a short amount of time. How long is that
going to be true for? So keep playing with the II. Keep experimenting
and do let me know if you have any questions or you want anything else covered
at a future class. Thank you so much for joining
me here on Skillshare. Please look at some
of my other classes. I've got composing, I've got music theory,
got a few things. So thank you for coming and I
hope to see you again soon.
Misici, Music Composer & Producer
