Originally Posted by HearToLearn
It was a combination of a few things.

I used my own lyrics that I had written. No AI at all.

I used a site called Edio.com to create most of what you head musically. I took A LOT of regenerations as it does get many things wrong in song structure and also delivering the lyrics with random words at times. Other times, it just would generate additional lyrics if I didn't have enough in a section. I wouldn't use those and instead would rewrite the lyrics.

In an actual song, I use a DAW to have to assemble multiple takes and design the song structure. It someone just starts vocals wherever at time and jumps into a chorus at a weird time. THEN, for the second verse, as an example, it doesn't use the melody from the first verse but instead generates an entirely new melody. That makes it REALLY difficult. Also, there are no repeating of any number of choruses. Thus, have to use the DAW to copy and past the chorus.
I am actually big on shortening parts of the chorus or expanding it to add unexpected interest. I'm not really seeing this as possible...yet.

So for those who think this is a click a button one time kind of thing; consider educating yourself. It's so not there. I do believe in time it will get there. I would think it would be much easier than what they've done up to this point.

Hope that helps. Ask away on questions. David is more the expert though.

Chad, thanks for that explanation... did you mean to type "Edio" or Udio?
I played around with Udio and was impressed with the website, and the tech, but I don't know what I'd ever use it for... I must say, many of the song examples were high quality, as were those that you produced... After editing in your DAW, were you able to publish any of your finished songs back onto the original site? Were you able to download any of your creations as WAV files? Any luck generating videos on their site?
Thanks again Chad

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