After reading about AI generated metal on youtube, I decided to find out if Generative music sites can do good metal... At the time they couldn't... This was a year ago.
Fastforward to last month, I decided to check this out again and search for a generative music site that does good metal... It took a long time, but I found one... This site, AIVA, is really cool on the surface... You can 'train' it's AI on non copyrighted metal samples to make it do a certain sound.... Then you can ask it to replicate that sound with unique songs... It will adjust and change things in real time, which is nice... It evolves like any person and makes changes to the sound.
Fastforward to last week... I had made 2 major solo projects with the AI powered music generator. One was called Ai metal and was simply a showoff of what it could do. No songs had titles and it was simply set up to name them "track 1", "track 2", etc. That solo artist was a lot more neoclassical than the next one, called "generative chaos"...
Generative chaos was formed later on, earlier this month to do original songs with AI. The sound was trained on my own music this time and sounded totally different than AI metal. It sounded more unique, less classical oriented and more Middle Eastern, sound wise. It also did a lot more syncopated riffs and was actually heavier. By the time I set up a third account at AIVA though to show off my music, I changed the setup, trained it on stuff that wasn't mine and did some songs that were more like AI metal and then quit.
I recently set up an AIVA account to make music for me to listen to only. This was trained on a mix of my own music and music the Ai made based on other bands. The sound sounded different, more technical, more classical oriented and weirder. The prog metal was doing weird time signatures, had some strange blues rock elements, and was weirder. Melodeth was more death/doom and black metal was weird as hell but dark sounding, at least. I use that to make music for me to listen to at night while relaxing now...
What is really bad is just how finnicky this Ai is though. You try to get it to emulate a song and it frankly doesn't always do it right. I had a fucking Pain in the Ass of a time trying to get it to emulate black metal multiple times. Song C worked the first time after Song A and Song B failed to do something that didn't mix in terrible mainstream music like pop drumming, handclaps, rockabilly (!) or rap drumming. The second time Song C did what Song A and B did the last time and it was worse... Song B failed again but this Time Song A did it better... WTF... The alogerithm is totally fucked up and needs to be totally revamped if the music sounds sinister or dark... But besides this this AI actually was interesting... It evolved over time, did unexpected things like add elements of Classical and Middle Eastern Music into an influence (a style of music it can do based on a sampled song), when the influence didn't even have those elements in them originally...
