Is there a place online to teach me from an audio perspective, at least, how this machine learning works
Also, I’m not a computer programmer. I have to learn so many different things to make music. It is not just programming ,you know, but I’m so curious about machine learning’s potential for audio , besides ripping people’s music off , is there a repository of people‘s wishes and dreams for what this could do for them in making music? I feel like I’m not seeing the big picture and plugging in a question in ChatGPT or whatever I feel won’t give me a decent answer
There’s a lot of info, example code, example projects, podcasts, etc. on learn.flucoma.org. Definitely a good place to start.
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Hello! There are A LOT of things said about this, but indeed, very little speculation that is fun and inspiring for real. I reckon the conference I just posted has the 2nd half talking about this, from various perspectives, in non-technical ways.
I hope this helps? There is also Bob Sturm’s Conference which he announced in his talk and that has a proceeding I have not read.
There is this I posted before (Fascinating critical use of AI by artists) and this (Music and AI - some thoughts from some practitionners) - there is also all our podcasts
I hope this helps!
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Sorry, I lost a family member this weekend. I don’t remember saying “ripping people‘s music off”. Must’ve been some kind of subliminal angst going on there.
Do you think this will make it into euro rack stuff ? you know like Modalys I kind of wonder sometimes if the max version is being used in the WMD Kraken.
Who knows
Sorry to hear about your loss. Deepest condolences.
As for the much more pragmatic O.T. - some pedals and rack modules run a Raspberry Pi, and there is a thread of people compiling FluCoMa for that platform. So, potentially, stuff is happening there already. @rodrigo.constanzo had some embarqued stuff he tried, for instance, and as per his usual (incredibly) generous habit, he documented everything, from process to result.
The thing that keeps my from getting invested in Flucoma. Is laptop music in general doesn’t age well. I find that gear, Drum machines. old samples. Have a character that transcends time. if Flucoma could make it into some hybrid analog digital drum box or Euro rack machine. Maybe it would age well.
now I beg to differ - electronic music ages as badly as any. Each era has a flavour that is marked by the media (famous ‘media is the message’ trope all over) and for me the sound moves its location: cassettes, FM synth, distorted guitar amps, Zoom, all have a patina that mark its time… now what survives is exceptional, but that is normal.
In other words, there was A LOT of tunes using 808, and in itself that machine sounds like it does, and a few (ab)uses of it made it mythical. There is still A LOT of bad music made with electric guitars, and 808, and then we don’t even embark on the narrative of what is relevant at a given time.
To go back to your question: is FluCoMa the 808 of its generation? No, but the sound of content-aware manipulation (especially granulation) is definitely there - and we need to push forward and wider to see what is coming next, beyond/through/despite/with neural audio synthesis too. But that is speculative, and my 2c.
wise.
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