INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Ecrett Music is an AI-powered tool that generates unique music soundtracks for videos
Its creations are royalty free and sound surprisingly natural, and access to the tool costs just a few dollars a month.I believe that AI
supposed to be the realm where human ingenuity wins out over machine efficiency
to enhance our own creativity."It's a valid point; AIs have been lending musicians a hand since 1995, when David Bowie used an application
called The Verbasizer to pull sentence fragments from stories and articles, and slam them together to create unexpected
lyrics.Auto-tunedKusonoki has loved music since he was a child
He took up guitar in junior high school, and began dancing at university
He also enjoys creating things, and says his dream has always been to combine those two passions by creating something related to music
began to consider other ways non-musicians could create their own songs
says.Daigo Kusunoki, founder of Ecrett Music
Image credit: Dmet ProductsEcrett Music works entirely in your web browser
Just visit the site, select the type of content (options include workout, party, travel, relaxing, cooking and fashion), pick a mood (happy,
chill, sad, exciting or serious) and choose how long you want the piece to be
You can also upload your video to preview how the music and visuals will work together.The system will then generate a clip for you
If you like, you can edit the structure of the composition to better fit your video, and change the bass, drums, melody and backing
choose which membership tier suits you best
and offers unlimited creation and downloads for teams of up to nine people
charge for using them in personal or commercial work, and no credits are required (though a link to the site is appreciated)
reactions to Ecrett Music (which came out of beta last week) have been overwhelmingly positive, with filmmakers praising its speed and
convenience.There is no concrete definition of what makes the music emotional and human-likeDaigo KusunokiHowever, early users have also
only as good as the data it's given to work with
In the case of Ecrett, this was provided by a team of six people, including a director, software and AI engineers, designers and
music emotional and human-like
We are still trying various methods to improve the AI," Kusonoki says.While AI-powered composers can be useful tools, it doesn't look like
Ecrett will be putting human composers of incidental music out of a job any time soon.ZfCs3RWQ5Q3pRwFD6dmEd5.jpg#
