Creating Hit Songs With A.I. (Magenta Studio)

1. Trailer: Hello and welcome to my course on how to become a super-human music producer using artificial intelligence. In this course, we're going to be covering how to use magenta studio, which is free to beat producers block finish songs faster, and to be more creative. I've used these tools for many of my own songs. Example of that as I used interpellate heavily in my song, was that real? When you join this course, you're going to be able to generate more musical ideas than you ever have. And you might even be able to make the next billboard 100 top altruists, super bang or type of thing. My name is Will Mason. I've been in the music world for over ten years, over a decade. If you're looking for me on the Internet, I go by, we'll hearken. This course is for producers who want to expand their creative arsenal and want to explore other ways to come up with ideas. And it's for producers who might want to leverage proven melodies and drum parts to improve their own odds of commercial success. So what do I mean by that? I mean, if you look at the billboard 100, you can take two songs from there and analyze the melody and the drums and potentially combine those two different songs together using this type of technology. Obviously, there's a lot of other things that go into making a billboard 100 sign like incredibly good looks and money. But for us producers who don't have those things, we can improve our odds potentially by looking at the music theory side and using machine learning and artificial intelligence. This tool that we're going to be looking at will apply to makers of any genre. I would say this course is mainly meant for intermediate to advanced producers who, you know, kinda know their way around a DAW or Digital Audio Workstation. Let's go ahead and get started. I'll see you in the first lesson. 2. Why Care About A.I. In Music?: So the first thing I want to cover is, why does artificial intelligence matter in music and why should we care about it? I'm a big believer in the future of music, where computers play a much larger role than they do now. And I think this course is kind of a good way to get started and thinking about that and how to make yourself more creative using computers. Ai doesn't replace creativity. It enhances it. People are always worried about automation and how it ruins jobs. But in reality, whenever technology comes around and replaces one human function, leaves humans with another thing that they can do or enhances what they are able to do. It's only going to enhance our ability to do it. It's going to make it easier. I think it's just going to make us more creative in the long run and there's nothing to be scared and I think it's good for us to embrace. And luckily for us for a living, you know, right at the beginning of when these are, these tools are being made. It's the early days and for us, it's cool because we can get in early and kind of start understanding how we can use artificial intelligence to improve our music and make better songs, potentially faster songs too. And I don't mean BPM tempo faster. I mean like finishing the song faster. Now, the one thing I will say as a side note here, the, a lot of the times using artificial intelligence actually doesn't make you faster. But I do think that the end of the day music's not always about quantity over quality, right? So if you have to take longer to make a better song, that can be a better option. And so AI can actually make the process take longer. But if you have a better finished result, wouldn't you want that? So that's another thing to consider. You can imagine a future where artificial intelligence and these automated tools are going to play a greater role in music production and consumption. We already see companies like YouTube and Spotify leveraging algorithms and leveraging these automations to serve music to listeners. I think it's going to be the same on the music production side, we already see tools like isotope, you know, kinda with automated mastering that can be adjusted by humans. So we see this convergence of computer power and human mind power coming together where it's this hybrid. And that's the future that I want to embrace is how can I work together with a computer more to make better songs. And we're going to be focusing on magenta studio, which is kind of a set of plug-ins that were developed by Google using their TensorFlow engine. There's a lot of, a lot of explanation that I could go into, but we're really not going to be focusing on that. But the main thing for you is that it's free and it's a free way for you to start dabbling in using artificial intelligence in your music. This course is not about how the sausage is made. I'm not going to focus on how magenta works because that's going to eat up a lot of time. Basically you're getting access to a large number of melodic ideas in an instant like that. And that's pretty cool if you do want more explanations on how these tools are functioning and what the nitty-gritty as you can go to magenta dot tensorflow.org slash studio. And they, they have a decent bit of documentation there. 3. Getting Setup: How do you install the plugins that we're going to be using? There's kind of two options. So if you are an Ableton user, they actually have it developed where it is a plugin that lives inside of the digital audio workstation, Ableton. So you could go to this link, magenta dot tensorflow.org slash studio slash Ableton dash live location at magenta dot tensorflow.org slash studio slash standalone. So in order to use magenta with Ableton, you have to be fairly versed in the section view. So just to give you an idea of what that looks like, it's kinda this guy right here. It's the view that's not the arrangement view where you can kind of trigger clips. And basically what you'll need to do is download the magenta file from their website. And so we came just as kinda go ahead and go through that right now where we'll go to magenta Studio. So if we're going to be able to inversion. So right here, so we're on this page for the Ableton Live plugin. You're going to download it for Windows. Then you're gonna get this little file that's going to download to your computer. We can go over here, check it out. So this is what it's going to look like is this little dot AMX D plugin. And you can drag that into a midi clip within Ableton. Let's take a look at what that looks like. The way that you would drag this in is, you would say if you have this Miniclip right here, midi clips seven that we're looking at the way you would kind of load and your plug-in could just grab it here and then throw it in. And then that's going to open up a new instance of magenta within Ableton that takes a little bit of time for to get fired up, which is why I recommend saving a template that has the magenta plug-in already loaded so that you can just open up Ableton and it's already there. Might take a few extra seconds for it to load, for your template to load, but that's okay. So that's what the plugin is going to look like down at the bottom here. Awesome. So that is getting loaded up with Ableton. One thing I've noticed is that this plug-in does make able to run a little bit more sluggishly. So maybe that's a good case to use the standard alone even if you are unable to. And I'm not really sure. I know whenever I use it, I just use it enabled tenon struggle through the pain if there is a little bit of sluggishness going on. The other option is that if you are a user of another DAW, say FL Studio or logic, you can download the standalone app. Basically the process is going to be to download the file, unzip it, and then you're going to have a collection of apps. So it'll be the five apps that we're going to be talking about. And you just open the one that you need. And you're going to be selecting your input and output locations. So let's take a look at what that looks like. This page, the stand-alone page, you're just going to click Download. And so you're going to pick whatever one you want. So whether it's Mac or Windows, you download it, it starts downloading. It's about 800 megabytes. And then once you open it. You'll get a little file that looks like this. You'll be able to unzip it. And then you'll get a file that has these five things in it. And then from there, you can just open the one you want. So say we're talking about Generate, you open up generate. It's going to take a second, the first time it loads. And so that is going to look like this guy. And again, generate you don't need a input, so you would just choose your folder for where you want it to output 2. So that's kind of how you download the application and get it setup for both cases. From now on I'm going to be doing it in the Ableton Live type of way. But the logic for everything that I do is going to apply to both. Next point of interest is the temperature slider. So all of these plugins have this slider. And temperature is basically a way to control randomness in the algorithm that they've made here. So if you set it to 0, the prediction, the outputs that you're going to get, these midi outputs are going to be a lot more conservative and a lot closer to whatever your input is most likely. And then if you set it to 2, it's going to be a little bit crazier. And I would say most of the time when it's set to 2, the outputs are pretty unusable. But if you want to get crazy and maybe you're trying to make something that's more like a background weird synth type of thing that might be a good use case. So yeah, that's kinda what temperature is and you'll be able to use that on all of these plugins in terms of setting up your drums. So the magenta studios capable of generating melody ideas and drum ideas. So for setting up your drums, you want to make sure that your inputs and outputs kind of match this setup here. So you might be curious, well, what is pitch 36? Pitch 36 is C1. So you're going to want to align everything up to this. So in this case, bass drum is your C1 on the Midea scale, though, pitched 38 would be a D. So that would be your snare drum. And so you kinda wanna go through and make sure all of these match up to that. Whenever it spits out something, it's going to match up to these different instruments. And so this is a fairly common setup for VSTS. So if you use something like addictive drums, I believe this is going to roughly match up. So when you're talking about many melodies are really midi drum parts as well. There's kinda two options you can use your friend Google and say, let's say that we want to find rolling in the De Mitty can just Google that and find, go through here and see if you can find a download that somebody else has made for, for your reference. So that's kind of option one. The other option is to just download the actual audio from YouTube or something and then writing the Midea part out yourself. So let's say 0, 1 and the deep. We're going to find this. And then you can use a tool. So unfortunately, a lot of these do have like pop-up ads and annoying crap. Some of them don't work. Let's go to a different one. So we're getting this MP3 down. And so yeah, there's lots of these random tools don't get a virus. But yeah, there's, there's lots of tools you can use. So we've got this, we're going to drag it in down here at the bottom. So we got our, you know, our audio file. What you'll wanna do is make sure that the tempo up here sync that up to, or the tempo and your digital audio workstation is sink dot to it. Then you can just go add a new midi track and then go in. And as you're listening to the track, just adding in the notes or it could be a drum part to that match what you are hearing in the song. And so that's kinda the other options. So obviously, that takes a lot more time when you're trying to get something done fast is usually better to not reinvent the wheel. So if you can find it on Google, I find the melodies or the drum parts on Google highly recommend that. 4. Generate: We're going to jump into our first plugin, which is Generate. And the idea behind generate is that you're letting the computer make musical ideas from scratch. So there's not really any input. You're not giving it a drum part, you're not giving it a melody. It just going to make something. And I would say that this is the best one to use when you're kind of in the scenario where you're starting from nothing. You don't have any ideas and you just kinda gotta get something on the page, so to speak. It's easiest to use. There's no midi required. The melodies and the drum ideas that this puts out are not going to be completely random. They are based on a big dataset that Google used. So whenever you're generating, you're going to get something that probably pretty coherent and maybe, maybe not, sometimes it's not super coherent, but it's a good place to start, get a lot of ideas. So there's going to be a decent Lee wide variation in the outputs that you received because there's not really any guidance, which is why I kind of favor continue and interpolate the other two plug-ins will be covering later. I like those a lot more because you have some control over what your melody or your drum part is going to sound like. So it's kind of like a dartboard where you don't I should have added to this. It's a dartboard where you're not very good at playing darts, where you're just kinda throwing and hoping that you had a bulls-eye, which can be fun. So you'll see here at the top you have two options for drums and melody. We're going to be focusing on melody here. And what you're going to need to do is choose your output location. And so it'll look very similar to this in the stand-alone version. But here in Ableton, we're going to say, okay, we want to put the thing that we generate on the generated. So i'm, I'm just going to use this as kind of like the main place that we're storing anything that we generate from the plugin. So that's that track right here. And inside of here it's going to be putting it on this, on this track in this quick view. Okay, So let's pull magenta backup. We're going to just put it on slot one. So with variations, this is just how many different ones. So let's go ahead and stick with eight. And if we want to make something that's super conservative in what it is generating, we can do this, the temperature slider, we can adjust up to two. So this is going to give us something that might be kinda crazy. I found that usually it's not super usable if you do that. So I'm gonna go with a 0.4. So it'll be pretty conservative and what it's creating, we'll hit Generate. Sometimes this can take a minute, usually the generate plugins pretty quick because it's not referencing anything. And then you'll see an Ableton we've generated the Eclipse. If you're using the standalone version, those Eclipse will just be in your file folder that you told it to export to. I usually like copying out. And some Ableton users might not agree with me on this, but I like copying out the files and then just thrown and then the timeline here I like looking at things to the Arrangement view. So here are the eight different melodies we've generated. Again, these are not this plug-ins, not referencing anything. So you're just going to kind of get a melody that's based on the collection of thousands of melodies that Google has as part of this machine learning algorithm. Here's the output and I'm just using a piano sound to listen to it. So actually I kinda like that. That kinda gives me like a jack Sparrow type of vibe. I don't know who wrote the score for that off hand. So that's kinda cool. So that's kind of boring, but potentially cool. Here's one that looks like a pop melody, right ear, if there's two nodes. Actually, that's cool because that is a, so that's kinda of like a bass part that you could use. And it's actually cool because that is the bass part and a black Keys song. The song called tighten up. I think, I think that's the bass part and that song, so that's cool. So that's a base part IDA got right there. So again, you're using generate as a starting point. Just kind of a place where you're saying, Oh, I don't know what the heck's going on. I'm just going to Dino start a new song that you could use that as a starting point for your bass part. Okay, So that's kind of generate a nutshell. There's not really much more that we need to expand upon their, other than, you know, if the melody isn't quite right. So like I hear this melody and I think it shouldn't resolve on that note when we were looking at listening to it. So you might delete that note and just say this is the, maybe you can expand on it and write the melody out further. You're using your own human brain or not, and maybe just using some of the other melody ideas that you come up here. So yeah, it's about taking what you get and then adjusting it, using your soul and your heart and your brain and all those great things and making it into something so that's generate. Next we're going to be looking at Continue. 5. Continue: Continue is kind of based around the idea of letting the computer make a musical idea based on one musical idea that you provide. So this could be a drum part or melody and you're giving it to the computer. And then the computer's going to say, okay, here are some other ideas based on this. The use cases pretty much are creating new melodies for other parts of your song or creating new drum parts for other parts of your song. So say you have a verse idea, but you need ideas for a pre-chorus using continue, you're going to need one midi input. And so you could potentially get a middy idea from Google where it's like, Oh, I want to know the Midea part for the melody in bad guy from Billie Eilish, you go to Google, find some website that gives that way. You can download the midi file and then kind of use that as a starting point. And I also wrote or your soul. So you could just write a magnetic media part that comes from your heart or whatever, and then use this tool to generate something that might play along well with your media or your melody idea or your drum idea for that matter. And then kind of after you get that output, you're going to be using that as a starting point. And then you can kind of adjust them to make them better based on your own taste. This one is cool. This plugins cool because it generates up to 32 bars of content and up-to-date variation. So basically with one, you can provide one musical idea and you can theoretically generate just with one iteration, a 100, 256 bars of musical content, lot of content to listen through. But it's really cool because these will all be based on your initial idea. Let's take a look at how to do that in your digital audio workstation. Again, we can choose dramas or melody. Both can be pretty useful. We're gonna go with the melody and with continue. Of course you need an input, so you have one input that you are going to be giving it to it and we're going to choose. So let's say that we want to build a melody that's based on the verse enrolling in the deep. Actually, let's do somebody that I used to know. So I have a track called somebody full. So what's going on here is these are the full, this is the full verse for somebody that I used to know by that one guy. And this is the chorus. And the reason I have two different tracks for each of these, and I should rename this caught somebody is, later on we'll be using interpolates. Basically, these are the full, this is the full clip for the verse for both of these songs. This is the full clip for the chorus. And so in magenta, what I'm going to be using, I'm going to say continue, I want to use somebody. So I'm going to be selecting the full verse of somebody that I used to know. And I want to create four variations that are four bars in length. So let's try that. And one thing to keep in mind is that when you do this, it's going to, in the output midi file, it's going to be the same melody is what you gave it. So it's just going to tack on the predicted melody at the end. So we gave it this, I believe it's an eight bar melody. So it's actually going to end up being 12 bars total with the outputs. So let's go here and see what that looks like. So we see that it, it's kinda spit out these four results here. So we're going to copy these from this clip view. And again, I'm going to go into the generated view and see, just copy it in here because that's kinda what I liked doing. So we see that these are 12 bar phrases, like I said. So let's listen to see what we got. So this is, there are originally bars. Let's listen to this. So that doesn't really strike me to grade. Maybe it could be adjusted into something. Let's listen to this guy. Kinda like that. I didn't really know how I felt about this first. But just to give you references to what the last measure of the original input sounds like just in case you haven't heard somebody that I used to know. So that's kinda what the last four are. The last bar of the input sounds like, and then we're listening to these outputs here. So I kinda like that second one sounds kinda cool. What do we got here? So I kinda, I kinda like this first half of this. So I can see that being like a cool ridge maybe or a precursor. None. So, and obviously that's not what the bridge and the original song sounds like. I don't even know if the original song has a bridge. But that melody right there, you know, that sounds pretty commercially usable to me. And obviously this is just the first try and it just one example. But anyway, that is continue. So we've just generated these four different ideas here you could go through and listen all of them and adjust them to. So if it's with this one, I might not like I might like the and then you can adjust this up if you wanted to. And it really just about taking what you get and then adjusting it using your human mind and soul. Next up on the list we have interpellate, so we'll do an example of that. 6. Interpolate: Interpellate is my personal favorites and we're going to be covering this one at a little bit greater length because I think it is the most useful. With this one, you're letting the computer make a musical idea based on two musical ideas. So you're basically saying, here's one idea, here's another idea. I want you to make a hybrid of these two things. And so with that, you kind of get two use cases that are really cool. You can create new melodies and drum parts, though you could, you could take two completely different songs and merge them together and make kind of a new melody or drum part. And then the other cool thing is you can make a transition melody or a transition drum parts. So say you have a verse and a chorus in a song that you're really happy with and you don't know what to do for the bridge or the pre-chorus. You can combine the two together and kind of get these output melodies, these output drum parts, as a starting point. And the cool thing is this gives you a access to a large number of really good top-notch ideas without needing much music theory. So you can go and say, oh, I want to combine this super ultra crazy great song with this other super ultra crazy great song. You can, you can jam those melodies together. So using interpolate, you're going to get too many parts. Google's your friends. So again, you could find, let's say you want to combine an Adele song and a Billie Eilish song, you can go and find those mini parts on Google potentially, or you can write out the melody or self, then you're going to be converting the melodies to the same key. So I recommend doing this because the algorithm doesn't really have any reference to match the keys together. So you have a song that's one songs and C-Major one songs and C-minor might be kinda confusing for it because those are two different keys. And if you try to mix them together, you might get a kind of a weird result, which could be an interesting creative approach, especially if you're trying to mix two songs together and kind of get this hybrid melody for these two songs, I recommend making the key of the same. And so that's the part where a little music theory comes in, where you have to shift one of them up or down a few semitones usually to make them match. And we'll look at how to do that in a second here. The other thing that you're going to need to do with this plugin is breaking your midi into bars of force. So you might have a phrase that's 12 measures long, but you need a restrict it to four measures because that's just how this particular plugin works. I think they limited it because it takes a lot more processing power. Potentially. Heidi you generate is going to be a maximum of four bars. And that means that the input idea that you need to give to the computer also needs to be four bars. So you're going to be giving it 1 4 bar phrase and then another 4 bar phrase. And then it's going to spit out a few different variations that are four-bar phrases. You're going to generate these new clips and then these are going to be starting points for you that you can adjust the taste. So let's take a look at how this works in your DAW. So with this guy, you know, when you're using the Ableton version, you need to include both of your input clips on the same track. So what does that look like? That would look like something like this where you have the role and in the deep verse 1 and Course 1. So. We're gonna kinda do two examples with interpolate. One example is combining two songs together, two different song melodies, two melodies from different songs together. And then the other example is we're going to use it as a transition. So what would the pre-chorus, for example, a role in the deep from Adele sound like for trying to predict that. So example one. I'm going to go and delete these clips here. We're gonna say, okay, we're going to put our, just use this magenta clip is our place to store everything because we have our role in chorus one and somebody chorus one. So we're going to combine the course enrolling in the deep, and then the chorus and somebody, we're going to combine those two things together and see what we get. The one thing to keep in mind is that we need to make sure that these are in the same key, because they are different keys. Somebody that I used to know is in the key of C rolling in the deepest C minor. So we're going to have to do a little bit of an adjustment there. So that's one thing to keep in mind. And the other thing to keep in mind is that both of these clips are four measure long. So this is where a little bit of music theory is required to know. So because somebody that I used to know is in the key of C and the Adele's song is in the key of C minor. We basically need to put the Adele's song in the key of a minor because that is the, the equivalent of C-Major in terms of the notes that are being used. So little bit of music theory knowledge there. So now I have put my Adele song and to the key of C, which is actually a minor. So they're basically going to be using the same collection of notes. And we're just doing these four bars. So we're focusing on these four, Rena, consolidate these from here. Now we have these two parts we want to copy. I'm going to copy these clips and make sure I put them into the clip view over here in magenta. I DO right here. And you can explore with different workflows on how you're doing this to make it faster. But just for the sake of you sample, we got our two courses right here. So then we're gonna go into magenta. Let's get this guy out here. And we're gonna go to interpolate, and we're going to combine these two clips together. These are melodies. You could use the drums and see what weird stuff it spits out. But her going to stick to the melodies here, go to magenta, clip a Roland. So that's wrong in the deep, somebody that is to know. And then we're going to say force. And these steps are just the same as variation. So that's how many variations we're going to spit out that each one's going to be a bar along and we're going to will just keep the temperature I want and see what we get. What you'll notice is that this first one that it's putting out is the the just the original Midea and then the last one and it's putting out as the other one. So these are kinda just like the steps in between. So that's kinda weird. But I think that one could be pretty interesting to use. If you wanted to increase your number of different hybrid melodies, you would just increase this number right here. And let's say that we have our rolling in the deep verse and a Rolling in the Deep course. Let's say that we want to kind of interpolate between these two things to come up with a pre-chorus for this song. What we're gonna do, we're gonna assume, again, we need to break it into four bar phrases because that's kind of how this plug-in works. And what I'm gonna do is use role in verse 1 and rural in Course 1. So these two sections, ideally, I think you actually use this section right here because that's the last phrase before your hearing group, before you're transitioning into the course. But for the sake of this example, I'm going to use role in verse one, chorus verse 1. So the first part of the course and the first part of the verse, we need to make sure we have that. So we have that right here under our role in track. So whenever we go into magenta to select what's going on, we're going to be selecting that. So we're going to roll in. We're going to say verse one, chorus one. And then this plugin is going to add everything underneath. We need to have Melody selected or else it's going to sound kinda weird. And then we're going to set the temperature to be a little conservative, little less than one. Let's just do that and see what we get. So we have generated our ideas. You can see them under the clip here. I'm just going to grab all these and throw them out and the board so that we can route on this view so that we can see it easier and listen to it easier. So we have, so that's kinda of our verse, the original idea, and then this is our course. Right? So now what do we got in-between here? One thing I will say is that the input Midea that I found for rolling in the deepest, kinda weird where they were using pitch bending. So I probably should've adjusted that a little bit because it's going to sound weird because the, the, the algorithm here isn't supporting pitch bending. It's just going to print out the notes. So I kinda like that ending part their leg. I mean, I could see that being that idea being a cool pre-course type of thing, or maybe, maybe like a chant type of bridge. I can see that, that idea of equal, obviously sewing, hire, those nice crazy voice. Okay. So that was an idea. Here's another, I kinda like that idea. So you can kind of riff off of it in your head too. But I really like that. And so I'm imagining that kick drum that is in the original song. I really see that fitting well into the song. Obviously, it isn't in the song because I'm not the one writing it. But if I was at a loss as to what to do in a bridge or a pre-chorus, that would be a very good contender. And so what you can see is you can go through all these examples. You can find something that kinda works. This is kinda your jam and then you can adjust it. And so that is how you can use interpolate for transition phrases. So now let's kind of jump to drama Phi. 7. Drumify: It has drum in the title, so it's focused on drums. This is letting the computer make a drum part 4. You come up with drum ideas. I've found that it's usually needs a decent bit of touch-up. So basically you're providing the tool, a musical idea, midi idea. So this could be a melody that you want to put a drum part 2 or it could be a series of chords or something like that. And then it's going to make a drum part based on that idea. So this is based on 15 hours of real drummers playing song. So it's the same dataset I believe that groove is using. For me, I've mainly ended up using it for break beats or kind of weird ambient effects where it's, It's not really the main drum part of the song. It's just like a creative tool. I say I use it more creatively than for the main drum part, because usually drum parts are pretty straightforward. It's cool for finding new and unexpected rhythms for your song. So let's take a look at this. Say that we use this melody and we want to use this guy and to generate a drum part. So a new drum part using drama phi, this ploy. And so basically we need to go in here, we're going to open this and we're going to be choosing an input clip. So we're going to use this guy and these clips all exist right here. So what we'll do is just select this and then select a kinda just let it do its thing. So let's go to magenta. We're going to say magenta, we're going to do this two out of four because that's the cliff we want to use. And then we're going to just leave it at one. Actually what's due and really conservative drum part, Let's just say 0 and see what it does. And it is going to generate, it's going to overwrite the parts that we did. So you're going to have to award to find o, a workflow that makes this efficient for you if you're using this very regularly, Let's kinda see what this ends up sounding like. Let's add a drum part down here. So we have our drum part added. Now let's go here and copy this over and we'll just though it and like so. So you kind of got like a nice pop rock kick, kick, snare, kick, kick snare. Super conservative, I think would totally work for this melody. So just generated that. I mean, that melody is definitely not the greatest melody I've heard interpellate put out. As you can see, we can use this drama fly plug-in if we want to generate a basic beat like that, Let's actually do this one more time and do something a little crazier where we generate a beat that's a little bit crazier. So we'd set it on to where it's going to be a little bit wild. And let's again use the same input. I think one thing I've noticed is that when you set the temperature higher, it takes a little bit more time. I'm I'm not really sure why that is, but maybe it's just because it's generating a part that's a little bit crazier. Let's move this over to the side and see what we got here. So you get something that's a little bit more wild. They're a lot busier. A lot of the times whenever I use stuff like this, I'll just throw some. You could use it as an ambient effect where you, you know, you use it for something that's really tucked away in the background or like a breakbeat. So you could add something like halftime on to this to get some type of crazy effect. The main reason I use this one is for creative background type of stuff or maybe break beats. So yeah, very cool. So that's a drama phi. And again, you could use drama 5, 4 melodies to give you a weird result, but definitely, definitely something to consider. So then the last one we're going to look at is groove. 8. Groove: Groove. You let the computer make your drums sound more real, kind of similar to a human iser, but probably more accurate and mimicking human error because basically what they did is they had a bunch of drummers record, I think about 15 hours of audio where they were playing for real, and then they trained the computer on that. The really focused on drum. So you might not want to use this on melodies because it might sound where the velocities might sound kinda weird for a melody, could be an interesting creative use case is really the main thing you're going to want to use this for is if you have an acoustic drum part and your song and you programmed it and you want to make it sound more realistic. That's kinda the main use case here. So let's take a look at that in our DAW. So let's say that we have a drum part that we wrote and we're actually just going to use this drum part that we used to create that was created by Drama phi. And you see that it's all, like all the midi notes have different velocities. So let's just say that you've programmed this just in your midi editor and all of the velocities are the same. So boring is as crap right there. Oh, I need to take half-time off of this because that sounds kinda wild. And let's say you want to make this drum performance a little bit more realistic. We could go into a groove. And actually we're going to make sure that we have looks like its head. A little bit of a crisis here. It's classic. The basically I want to make sure that we have this guy stored in our drum part. So we'll just though that there just as a place to store it so that we can reference it when we're using groove. So we've got our drums, we're going to select drum and we're going to use the clip that we just were looking at there. Just ran this. Let's see what we got. We're going to copy this out, though. It down beside here. It's going to be different. And you can see that because we set it a little bit below one, the, on the temperature that you can see that it's pretty close to the original, but we can see that it's made some adjustments to make this drum performance a little bit more realistic. That's kind of a cool use case. One more fun thing that I'm going to do is use because I was curious about this because I've never done it. But using groove to change the velocities on an actual midi melody. So let's, let's do that. So we're gonna take this guy where we're gonna go to groove. And we're going to select this track right here. So this clip and see what happens when we run it through a drama algorithm. So we'll generate that and see what we get. And it's going to ask us to override something. It's very easy to accidentally overwrite things when you're doing it like this. So be careful. We have this guy right here. So this is the Dhruv generated version of this same idea. And as you can see, it's something weird happens. If you try to feed a regular melody into the drum parts, it doesn't really work because groove is built for drums and it's going to be matched to these notes right here. So again, you could do it. I don't really know why you would, but it could be some creative reasoning. There. 9. Final Thoughts: So we've kind of gone through these five plugins and how they can potentially be useful and give you superhuman powers in your productions and helping you get through everything and get your songs finished. But I have a few notes here at the end just to kinda keep in mind, I think that these plugins really excel in the melody departments. So if you're trying to think of riffs or you're trying to think of a main melody for your clients, or you're trying to help them make better melodies, or you're trying to do it for yourself. Drums are usually a lot more straightforward and they have a lot less variation between genres where it can get kinda crazy with a drum part. But there's so many libraries out there now of, of really good acoustic drum parts or electronic parts that it's, it's really hard to compete with that where it's like, yeah, we know that this drum part works were melodies are a little bit more up in the air where, you know, it's a lot more variation and melody. So that's why I like using these plugins for that. I like using the drum components of this for making break beats, ambient noises, or for more creative uses where you might use the drum functionality to make a weird rhythmic type of thing. So that's kind of my bonus tip is using the drum functionality for melody parts or rhythmic synth parts or something like that. My last note here is to go forth and make the next super ultra banger. I really need to come up with a new and new name for that. There's going to be a lot more tools like this that come out over the next several years, the next decade. I think this is the first one that's really commercially useful and it's free. You can go out and start making hundreds and hundreds of melody ideas and just flip through them and saying, This one sounds really good to me. You can make drum parts. There's, there's really a lot of creative potential with the plugins. This has been my course on using magenta studio to give yourself superhuman artificial intelligence powers. I look forward to hearing any productions or any musical ideas that you end up making, definitely share them with me and I look forward to seeing you in future courses. I hope you have an excellent day. And until next time.