As part of its I/O 2024 conference, Google revealed Music AI Sandbox, a new music-making tool that allows loops to be generated using AI suggestions.
The tool appears to take text input and, in response to a prompt, generates brief audio snippets or “stems” replete with a waveform representation of the created sounds. It was briefly demonstrated today in a Google I/O video.
While describing his typical method of “crate digging”—that is, rummaging through crates at record stores—producer Wyclef Jean referred to the Google feature as a “infinite crate, it’s endless.”
Marc Rebillet, who gained notoriety for writing the hit Morning Alarm song while wearing a bathrobe, is seen in the meantime entering a prompt that calls for “viola” and “rhythmic clapping.” The instrument, according to him, improves his music and “makes it sound, ironically, more human.”
Although artificial intelligence has long produced music, Sandbox is the most sophisticated AI music tool that Google has released. During the I/O event, the business also unveiled the new Gemini 1.5 AI tool.