If those “dream track” examples are the best they can come up with, we’ve got nothing to worry about for a while.
Vocals sounded like they’d been recorded on an old Nokia in a busy train tunnel.
Dogshit.
“more Charlie Puth songs” was not what I was expecting from our brave AI future.
and
“Imagine singing a melody to create a horn line, transforming chords from a MIDI keyboard into a realistic vocal choir”
I feel like those things already pretty trivial without machine learning/neural networks?
I think the Synth ID details further down are actually some of the most interesting (do I mean sinister?) bits.
Yeah, welcome to Ableton live 6, Google.
Yep, nothing impressive for now, very oriented towards “please give me 30s of music for my short”…
But still… it’s the beginning… you can imagine in the future asking it a sound instead of scrolling a list of samples… or making a sketch from some ideas you have in your head…
OK GOOGLE.
I can’t take anything from google serious any more.
Don’t mind me, I’m just old, and as Douglas Adams said…
*" Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. *Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things."
BUT…
I mean, what I enjoy in making music is precisely “making a sketch from some ideas I have in my head”
as I am not making music to a brief for ads, I don’t need that part of the process cut out, it’s the making process I enjoy. I think for a lot of electronic musicians, once a piece is finished, it’s kinda over for them - hopefully other people enjoy it, but they’re onto making the next one.
Also, their inclusion of that stuff about watermarking is… interesting.
Like, I think they expect to be able to hold onto the rights for music their neural network made. Which is sensible, even if you assume copyright will likely disintegrate quite a lot in the new world order. BUT. If you’re going to give your publishing to Google, you’d be better off just spending the time.
Yeah, but how long before it can find a decent snare?
and “DOES IT EVEN COMPRESS BRUV”?
In many ways this is all quite a boost to my own confidence.
Google, multi-trillion dollar global Behemoth, ploughs unimaginable sums of money into building a bot that can produce tracks and its mix still sounds worse than mine.
Unlucky Google.
“Transform this Fin25 industrial noise track into a KPop banger” could lead to unexpected results 
All this effort to increase the already overwhelming amount of shitty online content (which is usually just an advert anyway).
I am not content with all this content.
“Hey Google Assistant, make me a star”
Yes, until the AI can produce a nine and a half minute poorly-mixed, free form jam totally lacking in melody or basic song structure, we have nothing to worry about.
I feel seen