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by frankdenbow 821 days ago
Love this. Used jukedeck in the past and did a comp sci for music class at CMU way back in the day. After reading I understand your focus may be on people who would already classify themselves as musicians but I think theres definitely a world where you are making it easier for the amateur who makes music for recreation or are musicians in training (same market as Artiphon who I have worked with). One element of the UX as you describe is that text may be difficult, would you imagine having input being described the way some artists do with humming and audio descriptions? Something along the lines of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhOsxMhe8eo

I put together my initial thoughts here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAZAWBw7c7o

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Wow, thank you so much for the in-depth landing page and product feedback! We absolutely agree that this technology can be used to enable people who haven't previously considered themselves to be musicians to write music. While we currently require that you use our tool with a DAW the next step is to enable full track creation all within our tool.

Also, I love your suggestion for humming and then using that audio as input to the AI. Our text-to-sound product (called The Forge in-app) does actually support you uploading your own audio and then you can add text and other prompting to modify it! I wouldn't say that particular functionality is fully developed yet, but your point is super valid since many musicians communicate rhythms and melodies to each other by imitating instruments with their voice.

Also, you've got a new subscriber :)