Udio: The Insanely Good FREE AI Music Maker! 

I'm more amazed at the speed at which it generates the music, I was expecting it to be "come back in an hour". That's incredible!

Thanks Gary, firstly let me say I have been a musician for 50 years and have used all kinds of tech and acoustic instruments to compose music. So, when I heard about Udio I dived right on in (with the same concerns as you) and crated a prog rock concept album about AI. It took three days. I wrote most of the lyrics, not all, the result was amazing! The Udio compositions needed a DAW to round out the imperfections. Yes, there are imperfections and there are ethical concerns. Philosophically, the great dived IMHO is live acoustic and played electric music vs recorded music. At last, we have reached that wall and it is growing higher and more ethically and legally divisive.

That's exactly what an AI Gary would say

I've tried Udio and it's pretty impressive, it makes light work of making quick sound clips that are easily accessible for use in videos, overlyas etc. However, I don't see it as a threat to the music industry. It's a tool that could be used for some nice work, if used well. Just like DAW apps allow creative artists to generate sounds without any musical instruments or being able to do dubstep reverbs with their voice, for example, yet we listen and enjoy them. Even professional studios for top artists will have their voice pulled and tweaked to an enth of it's life in order to make it sound perfect on the record release. These are just tools the music industry has used for a long time now. When smart phones started getting cameras that were as good as the ones used by the movie industry, did they suddenly think everyone now has the capability to produce blockbuster films? no, but people did, and still do walk around with that ability pockets, yet it's tiktok and youtube videos instead.

gary ive subscribed long ago for the rpi4 contents, stayed for the quickness you get to the point of the subjects! you speak right into what we want, in this case a demo song

Nice explanation, Gary!. And to cap it all, why not add your own voice with the base frequency and few multiples thereof like 2,4,8

This new technologically could be good or bad, depends how you use it.

SUNO creates very catchy melodies, but if you use it for a long time, you begin to notice the same melodic moves. UDIO has much more varied melodies and more complex arrangements and harmonies. In UDIO it is more difficult to create a good long composition than in SUNO, but as a result it turns out better and more interesting. Plus in UDIO, of course, the quality of sound and, especially, vocals is much higher. I have already created several songs in various styles in SUNO and UDIO using my own lyrics. Here are some examples: SUNO: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-CwYwtXgAG-k.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Og258NuIPZg.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-fuRuZND4iRs.html UDIO: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-To_ZpgnUaME.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-wmvs2K3mwkE.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-I1FpXsCPYTw.html

Great Video. Like everything else in life, some people will love and benefit from this new tech, while others may lose a lot because of it. Nothing stays the same, and whether it is for better or worse will depend on individual needs. It is what it is.

The thing I'm having issues with these platforms is that the buttons are not labeled properly for people with disabilities who use assistive technology such a screen reading software or magnification software. The Internet is becoming less and less user-friendly for people with disabilities

Or simply "end of beginning" like Djo Joe Keerry

I've played with Udio for a few days, and it is spooky-amazing. However, to get 3 half-decent verse inspirations in jazz/blues/soul style took 68 "credits" and about 4 hours. I encountered moderation issues so quite a few prompts that seem innocent get rejected. I'm old enough to remember the arpeggiator debates, the hate for home organs, and the lack of respect for so-called musicians who mimed their performances. Bring in auto-tune (more recently), or Grimes pathetic public tantrum because she couldn't cope with tempo matching yesterday,. As a musician I am NOT worried about this AI stuff. It will inspire better music from humans for humans who care about music, and improve elevator music for idiots who hum along to MIDI files. $0.02

Does it create the art (image) automatically?? Or if not, what app do you use to create the image?

This was insightful, Gary!

Great as usual Gary!

Wow, never expected the AI music generation to be this good! Kinda sad as well because AI would be able to plug into a recommendation algorithm and come up with a song that would exactly fit your style (which would keep your locked into that style whatever it is).

AI is expanding at a alarming rate whether that's good or bad I don't know.

Rather than embracing the change and innovation, Gary, you are in danger of being guilty of stringing up the rope.

Is not just evolution? Computer printed newspaper or books putting typesetters etc out of work, farriers and other trades out of work because of the automobile. The music industry has the edge because it in most (some) cases it has is it's originality. 👁 that's "an eye"

I keep saying this’ll: AI doesn’t know how to create anything good, just good enough. But honestly, good enough is enough for a lot of people looking to cut costs.

Nothing can surpass human intellect. Plus, with such AIs coming into existence ,value for "man-made" music will increase exponentially.

Can we use Udio's Music on RU-vid and Monetizate my video without Copyright Claim or Strike? And i will have to give credits to Udio or No?

This is pretty cool

If Gary has to convince he is real and not an AI avatar, then that itself is concerning. 😊 Thanks Gary for the video.

Only AI would deny that it is AI, Gary. 🤪 But, seriously, this was an interesting video.

😂This is Gary explains and I am not an AI - shows how disruptive AI is, if Gary needs to explain not being an AI

Are we seeing the beginning of an AI equivalent of *MILLI VANILLI?* 😕

All jobs could be redundant or all jobs can be saved.

You hit the nail on the head - human work will still be prized (in monetary terms) higher because there is no substitute for it. AI music will be just another category of music. It might even be better, but it will never be more expensive. Because humans did not put as much work into creating it.

Without human input the AI generated stuff has nothing new to work on. It relies what is on the web and plays about with it. It is clever but but can not produce something truly new.

The only music threatened by AI is the very worst of our auto tuned and quantized dreck. I find delicious irony in the fact AI is copying the worst of pop’s outputs, the laziest of efforts in popular music. It seems that terribly few are composing anything deeper, more emotionally charged than what an app on your PC can toss out all day.

soul-less. It may be a good tool for creating disposable advertising jingles but I think I'll go the human route for my listening pleasure

I hope RU-vid won't flag it in the future or require us to indicate it's AI generated.

As a musician I have several opinions. But firstly I am disappointed in the ways that these AI companies have been allowed to "scrape" copyrighted work into their neural networks. The argument that this is a transcendent technology is frankly a load of B. S. and speaks more to the fact that music and the arts are a much more decentralized and granulated marketplace than any other businesses. Insofar as the comparison with a human being learning the various tunes as a way training their own style of writing being the same as what is happening with these machines _ that's even worse hogwash: these works of art and music weren't listened to by an A. I., they were "trained" on the original works by adding them to a database which as much as anyone tries to spin it _these generative A. i. models wouldn't be capable of without a human writing the scripts. Whether these original records or works of art were ever paid for to begin with is a point of contention, but then to have them sitting in a neural network to be referenced at any point via an algorithm as if they were owned by these companies is for lack of a better term Robbery. This technology has the added consequence of not only devaluing the works of art and music it is using in it's data set but also the need of folks to pursue those past times in general which could ultimately lead to a kind of feedback loop unless someone is suggesting we're on the precipice of General A. I. That second tune that udio gave you even sounded as if it were Can Calloway performing it. Down to the quality of the audio. Artifacts that were present on the original analog recordings are one of the reasons this tech has been mistaken for being so authentic and impressive but ultimately I'd argue this is further evidence of the ways in which this is a crime against the arts and the artists and musicians who have made it over the years. In any case I don't subscribe to this general feeling of inevitably in the zeitgeist because of the historical role of technological innovation. So far the fields where A. I. Might serve to benefit humanity (health, medicine, etc.) are not where these companies have put their focus, and by stealing art and music they are flirting with a growing sense of nihilism. But be that as it may I appreciate your point of view and thank you for your video. All the best, Cheers