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24 alternatives to Music Generation Backed by Algebra
Monic Theory: Make More Music. Synthesize targeted MIDI assets using your favorite creator mode. Learn music theory to expand your music making toolkit..
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Hey HN, My cofounder and I trained an AI music generation model and after a month of testing we're launching 1.0 today. Ours is interesting because it's a latent diffusion model instead of a language model, which makes it more controllable: https://sonauto.ai/ Others do music generation by training a Vector Quantized Variational Autoencoder like Descript Audio Codec (https://github.com/descriptinc/descript-audio-codec) to turn music into tokens, then training an LLM on those tokens. Instead, we ripped the tokenization part off and replaced it with a normal…
2024 · sonauto.ai · its alternatives →
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Udio▲251Generative song creator & mobile studio. Make your music.
2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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LightNote▲242An interactive site to learn the basics of music theory 🎶
2016 · lightnote.co · its alternatives →
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ChordCreate▲81Use AI to generate chord progressions with ease
2023 · chordcreate.com · its alternatives →
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Hello HN! Here's Billard. It combines music and physics into a unique creative tool, as I explore various unconventional methods for generating music. Most traditional music composition tools revolve around the idea of a repeatable pattern. Billard is a webapp that never repeats itself. It generates music automatically based on the collisions of balls in a 2D space. Collisions trigger notes (or chords) in a given key. One can add balls or move them (y-position is pitch); the app remembers its state between reloads; or it can be reset with the 'init' button on the top left. Gravity can be…
2024 · billard.medusis.com · its alternatives →
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I'm excited to share with HN a new pet project I've been working on to explore how AI can create and explain harmonic chord progressions - Chord Variations. The project uses GPT-4 to generate unique and interesting chord combinations based on user input chord progression. It's akin to having a virtual musical assistant that can help non-musicians and musicians alike explore and create harmonious sound without needing any prior knowledge of music theory. The generated chord suggestions maintain a similar vibe to the user input. Alternative chord progression includes extended chords, chord…
2023 · chord-alt.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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This is an web audio experiment I've been wanting to do for a long time. Basically an ambient music composition, but all the sound elements are laid out in space, and that musical space can be explored freely. It's definitely inspired by in-world music that sometimes appears in games. I basically took that concept, keeping the music aspect, and dropping the entire "game" aspect. I also turned it into a more "traditional" non-interactive album, but since I started with code, why not program the whole thing? Had a blast making the entire album from code, the complete source for the album is…
2024 · ambient.garden · its alternatives →
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Create your own art with amazing speed and flexibility
2021 · its alternatives →
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muted.io▲128Magical collection of tools to learn music & music theory
2023 · muted.io · its alternatives →
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ChordViz▲75Build your own music visualizer for MIDI & audio
Aug 2026 · chordviz.ca · its alternatives →
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Hi, I'm the author of this little Web Audio toy which does physical modeling synthesis using a simple spring-mass system. My current area of research is in sparse, event-based encodings of musical audio (https://blog.cochlea.xyz/sparse-interpretable-audio-codec-pa...). I'm very interested in decomposing audio signals into a description of the "system" (e.g., room, instrument, vocal tract, etc.) and a sparse "control signal" which describes how and when energy is injected into that system. This toy was a great way to start learning about physical modeling synthesis, which seems…
2025 · blog.cochlea.xyz · its alternatives →
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Royalty-Free MIDI melody generator
2024 · midigen.app · its alternatives →
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ChordHelper▲80Make chord progressions with no music theory
2023 · chordhelper.com · its alternatives →
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2018 · muzoti.com · its alternatives →
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Generate MIDI music from text descriptions using AI.
2025 · expireddomains.com · its alternatives →
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Western music theory library in C. Contribute to thelowsunoverthemoon/mahler.c development by creating an account on GitHub.
Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A look into songwriting with an AI
2017 · its alternatives →
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2018 · midibin.com · its alternatives →
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I've created a diffusion-based neural net generative assistant that makes creating new melodies much easier, even for non-musicians like me. These are meant to be just the catchy "hook" parts of songs, so more work is required to make them into full songs, but this is already handled well by existing products (e.g. there are plugins that can suggest a few possible chord progressions based on the melody and there is even good singing software that I used without any tweaks to make the “voice” playlist: Synthesizer V Studio). This side project turned out to be quite challenging because of how…
2022 · youtube.com · its alternatives →
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