Despite being a relatively recent technology, artificial intelligence is increasingly involved in the field of music. In an interview conducted last Wednesday, the 6th, researchers from Sony Computer Science Laboratories (CSL) announced to the Tech Xplore the development of software that can replace a bassist in a mix.
Developed by Marco Pasini , Stefan Lattner , and Maarten Grachten , the system promises to process any type of musical mix containing one or more sources, such as vocals or guitar, creating bass lines for any type of music, with the user able to control the style and timbre to their liking.
“At Sony CSL , our goal is to help artists and music producers in their workflow by providing AI-based tools,” researcher Stefan Lattner told Tech Xplore .
The need for a more specific tool arose after researchers realized that the most common approach of Artificial Intelligence tools that generate complete musical pieces from scratch—usually controlled only by text input—is not very interesting for many artists.
“Artists need tools that can adapt to their unique style and that serve them at any point in the music production process. Therefore, a generative music tool must be able to analyze and consider any intermediate creation by the artist when proposing new sounds,” Lattner argued.
The development team stated that they also plan to develop similar models for creating drum, piano, guitar, string, and sound effects instruments.
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