There are now several examples of AI-generated music on platforms like You Tube, etc.
Is this being done for "unsung composers"? Meaning we have the sheet music. Just give that to AI and let it handle it.
Thx for moving this query to the 'Digital Realizations' sub-forum.
Wow, the examples in this sub-forum are impressive!
I see the earliest entry is from 2021. I am guessing this is when the AI technology became good enough (easy to use enough) to produce useful results.
But someone please comment on the pace to AI realizations. Is it getting better and better at a faster rate now? What is more important ... the technology (better computers and AI servers) or human users's skillsets at using the same old AI (so better prompt engineering). In other words, can I as a human, better use 2021 AI tools and computer hardware, because of skills I have learned in the past 5 years (better programming or prompt engineering)?
This section of the forum contains no AI-generated music as far as I am aware. Not fully, anyhow; it may have been used to aid in the production of digital renditions, but most of it still comes down to old-fashioned note-entering.
To answer your second question: prompting skills are clearly an important factor in getting anything useful out of AI models. I've experimented with it, but to be honest my results sofar haven't been encouraging. This is not a major priority in LLM development and I don't see it becoming one, either.
Quote from: Ilja on Friday 02 October 2026, 16:44This section of the forum contains no AI-generated music as far as I am aware. Not fully, anyhow; it may have been used to aid in the production of digital renditions, but most of it still comes down to old-fashioned note-entering.
To answer your second question: prompting skills are clearly an important factor in getting anything useful out of AI models. I've experimented with it, but to be honest my results sofar haven't been encouraging. This is not a major priority in LLM development and I don't see it becoming one, either.
Thx for clarifying.
I assume that AI can help in reading the score and translating that to tones and sounds.
Any specific software that I should be aware of that can do this job? The ones that I'm familiar with are:
Spitfire Audio, Vienna Symphonic Library (VSL), etc.
It depends on how you define "AI". Technically, software like NotePerformer and Cantai both advertise that they use AI in their sound generation, but it is not the current popular definition of the term (which mostly just means LLMs.) There has been some pretty convincing LLM-driven music generation out there, mostly not in the classical/romantic period but in modern popular genres, though I have heard some.
The first one I heard was a model that was trained on the works of Vivaldi and told to write a new string quartet in his style. At the time, the synthesizers were not up to the task (I'm not sure they really are even now, at least with solo strings), so they had this piece performed by an actual human quartet along with several genuine ones, and even some Vivaldi experts failed to pick out the fake. (Vivaldi is one of few composers prolific enough that you could pull this off. Hardly anyone is familiar enough to be able to identify everything he ever wrote - or that his students wrote and he took credit for.)
This is definitely not the same as feeding a score to the computer to do the transcription. I have actually attempted this once, and the results were disastrous. Yes, it correctly read in the key, time signature, lyrics, guitar chords (it was not one of the pieces I usually work on; somebody just found a random Taylor Swift song to test it on) and it got the title and composer and everything else at the top of the page - too bad about all the notes. The actual music bore no resemblance whatsoever to the original. And this was with a professionally typeset and printed modern score. Feeding it an old, sloppily handwritten, severely weathered and badly scanned score like some of those I've had to work with, it could not possibly have made the task any easier. So what I do is currently safe from being replaced by AI in the near future, though that may change.