Music
Tonespace
Tonespace lets you play one note and intelligently augments what you’re playing with chords and arpeggios.
It connects via Midi (so to a synth or Garageband) and plays musically similar notes. Because it generates midi, you can “record” it and then use it in whatever DAW you are using.
Mercury Playground
Interesting. A web-based audio/music coding environment (a bit like many others) written in Ojack's Hydra (Javascript).
EarSketch
A web-based code-to-music tool, like Sonic Pi (ish) but web-based and using Python or Javascript.
Molecular Music Generator
Give this app a short piece of midi and it will generate a repeating generative version of it, Philip Glass style.
Bespoke Synth
I'm in love. Bespoke Synth is a way to make music and sounds using a visual flow diagram metaphor. Never have I had more fun. This tool is fabulous and free.
ChordChord
This wonderful tune creates interesting chord progressions for you. I tend to choose piano, turn off drums and set the bpm to around 80.
You have to pay to download the midi, but there are ways around this, using tools that turn recorded audio into midi. Although this may introduce errors or inaccuracies, we will live with these happy accidents.
A.I Generated Spotify Playlist
You describe the sort of music you want to hear, and A.I creates a playlist based on that description.
I added "post-punk-industrial tribal drums distorted guitar with funk bass, creating incredibly anger and tense discordant melodic noise" and it made this list - how'd it do?
mscompose95
Scribble on this strange Mondrian-like grid, click the samples below, and instant funky rhythms.
Autochords
Select your mood and key, and Autochords does the rest.
p.s You may need Soundflower to record your chords...
AIVA - AI Music Generation
This tool generates music (based on parameters) in lots of different genres and you get three free downloads. You can get a mixed .mp3 or midi file. Very impressive.
Mindful Harmony
A tool to compose or arrange unusual chords - and you can then save it in midi (maybe importing it into Garageband or BespokeSynth).
UVI Workstation
This free desktop app can make some interesting noises, and if you use the arpeggiator (ARP) then you can create almost ambient loops.
MuseNet
Musenet takes an "intro" and then "evolves" it with AI in different styles such as Beatles, Mozart or Bluegrass. Interestingly you can upload your own custom midi track and let it evolve that too.
I tried adding a file created by Computoser as a starting point, and I think it made it more Beatles-y but it's hard to tell. Doesn't have a download option.
These Lyrics Do Not Exist
Warning: Profanity! But, based on a training catalogue of lots of lyrics, this Machine Learning tool will take any subject and generate lyrics for you.
Sheffield Tape Archive
Archive of live music from Sheffield in mainly from the 1980s, so Crass, Fall, Eek-a-mouse and many others.
Timeline-ify
Nice tool that, using Spotify, arranges an artist's output by date, NOT RERELEASE ISSUE... at last!
Listen To Transformer
Listen as A.I generates music that "evolves" over time, or rather, has the musical notion of change and development within a song. Very clever.
Dadabots - Generated Music
AI/ML continuously generates music in a number of different genres. This death metal AI has been continuously streaming noise since Sept 2019!
Are they any good? What do you think?
Open AI Jukebox
Here, artificial intelligence generates music in various different genres. Go listen, sometimes terrible, sometimes amazing.
Also, lots more here.
IBM 1401, A Userβs Manual
nspired by a recording of an IBM mainframe computer which Jóhann’s father, Jóhann Gunnarsson, made on a reel-to-reel tape machine more than 30 years ago, the piece was originally written to be performed by a string quartet as the accompaniment to a dance piece by the choreographer Erna Ómarsdóttir.
YouTube Audio Library
YouTube has bots that check your videos to make sure you haven't used a copyrighted music track in your video. All these tracks are free to use on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram & Twitch without copyright issues.
This guide shows you how to download tracks from the Audio Library.
There are also lots of sound effects to download too.
Pay special attention to attribution requirements, with any audio user ever.
