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From Hackathons to Instruments: MRT2 Out in the World

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Magenta RealTime 2: Open & Local Live Music Models

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Open-sourcing The Infinite Crate DAW plugin

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Lyria Camera: Soundtrack your life

Google MagentaAI toolsLyria Camera: Soundtrack your life <p>Today we’re launching <strong>Lyria Camera</strong>, an app that uses <a href="https://deepmind.google/models/lyria/lyria-realtime/">Lyria RealTime</a> to make music with your camera. By combining Gemini’s image under

Space DJ: Navigating a Musical Universe

Google MagentaAI toolsSpace DJ: Navigating a Musical Universe <p>Today, we’re excited to launch Space DJ, a web application from Magenta that turns music exploration into an interactive journey through a constellation of sounds. You pilot a spaceship through a galaxy where each sta

Lyria RealTime VST: The Infinite Crate

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Magenta RealTime: An Open-Weights Live Music Model

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Introducing Lyria RealTime API

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Magenta Studio 2.0

Google MagentaAI toolsMagenta Studio 2.0 <p>TL;DR: <a href="https://magenta.withgoogle.com/studio">Magenta Studio</a>, first released in 2019, has been updated to more seamlessly integrate with Ableton Live. No functionality has changed, there are only UI chang

The 2023 I/O Preshow – Composed by Dan Deacon (with some help from MusicLM)

Google MagentaAI toolsThe 2023 I/O Preshow – Composed by Dan Deacon (with some help from MusicLM) <p>Tl;dr: Dan Deacon worked with Google’s latest music AI models to compose the preshow music. Check out the MusicLM demo in the <a href="https://g.co/aitestkitchen">AI Test Kitchen app</a>. Read on for more details abou

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XLR is a magazine, a radar and a diary about music gear and the making of music — for the people who make records and put on shows, wherever they do it.

The name is the three-pin connector that every signal in the business passes through: the microphone on stage and in the booth, the line to the desk, the DMX cable that runs the lights. Studio, stage and lighting rig share it, and so does this magazine. Every few hours XLR collects what the makers shipped, what the reviewers heard, what the studios and the touring crews are doing, which producers and collectives are surfacing and what they are saying — synths and modular, plugins and DAWs, guitars and drums, microphones, monitors, PA and lights, the rooms and the people — from a few hundred sources in English, German, French, Spanish, Japanese and more, then plots what is moving. The editor writes a letter every few days. Nothing is sold here; when a link leads to a shop, that is the maker's shop, not ours.