Tool: Gennie - the AI-powered Sample Generator in Soundation
MusicFirst partnered with an online DAW called Soundation Education right at the very start and it has been great to see the product progress over the last 12 years. Recently they have announced a new AI-powered sample generator called Gennie - and it is VERY cool. Unfortunately, it is only available in the consumer version of the product - so educators will have to wait a bit to use it with their students. It basically uses text prompts to create high-quality audio samples. Gennie creates 12-second-long musical samples based on the text prompts you type in. You can generate any type of loop you want - drum loops, bass lines, melodies, chords, and more, across a wide range of genres and styles. You’ll get even better results if you include the genre, tempo, instrumentation, and the mood you are looking for in your prompt. Here is a quick overview video of Gennie:
If you’d like to try Gennie - here’s what you need to do:
Visit Soundation.com
Click Create New Project
You will see a shortcut bar at the bottom of the studio interface
Click the “New” icon (see below)
Type in a prompt for the type of loop you’d like to create
Click Generate
It takes about 30-45 seconds after you enter your prompt for Gennie to produce something for you to preview. Once it has you have a couple of options:
You can Add to arrangement - your new loop will appear as a new track in your session
You can Open in Simple Sampler - this allows you to edit all sorts of parameters of the AI generated loop
Or you can Save to My Sounds - this adds the loop to your own personal loop library
Simple Sampler Interface
I am really hoping that Soundation adds this very slick new AI tool to the Education version of their online DAW. I think it really opens up the creative doors to students who can customize the sounds that they want to add to their compositions in an environment that they are already used to - rather than having to use an external sample generator.
In the meantime, I recommend checking out this very cool integration of AI into music production. Yes there are still many unanswered questions about how it creates these samples and what copyrighted works the AI tool was trained on, but until the law catches up (and it will) I really am enjoying investigating all of these implementations.
What do you think?