Adobe’s experimental tool lets you generate music with text prompts

Adobe is expanding its generative AI portfolio with a new tool for music creation. Project Music GenAI Control is a cutting-edge tool that lets users generate and edit music from text inputs. It is similar to other AI models that can produce images or videos from text descriptions.

Project Music leverages the same technology that powers Firefly, Adobe’s AI tool for generating images from text. Users can enter text prompts such as "powerful rock," "happy dance," or "sad jazz" to create music in different genres and styles.

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Spatial audio, created using Dolby Atmos technology, incurs an estimated additional cost of around US$1,000 (around CA$1,348) per song, according to industry executives interviewed by FT. Extrapolating this cost to entire albums reveals a substantial financial burden, especially considering the extensive back catalogue of albums that many labels maintain. The Financial Times consulted with executives from prominent labels such as Beggars Group, Secretly, and Partisan Records, home to artists like Vampire Weekend and Phoebe Bridgers. In response to these concerns, the affected labels plan to engage with Apple, hoping to negotiate a more favourable arrangement.

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