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by jay-anderson 1235 days ago
I'd like to see something like this used to generate an instrument from text. I don't think the 30 second clips are passable quite yet (I do like the simlish-esque vocals though). But I could see this being able to generate wavetables (or other synthesis methods). Generating an instrument from a text description would be very neat. "scratchy violin", "distorted kazoo", "combo violin and slide whistle", etc. It could be an interesting starting point to play with.
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I like this idea too.

I would also propose taking it in the direction of generating synthesizer parameters for a popular VST or Hardware synth instrument. As a musician, it would be very nice to be able to program a synthesizer through plain text as a starting point.