Sampleson Backgrounds is a new soundscape creation tool that lets users combine words and ideas on a canvas to generate evolving cinematic atmospheres.
Backgrounds uses semantic audio retrieval to match words and concepts with a curated library of more than 22,000 audio cells and 11,000 local embeddings. Users can drag keywords onto a canvas and combine concepts such as strings, rain, bass or thunder to create evolving soundscapes.
The software runs locally rather than relying on cloud processing or subscription-based tokens, and is available as a standalone application and plug-in for music production and sound-design workflows.
Features:
- Word- and concept-based soundscape creation
- Drag keywords onto a visual canvas
- Semantic Audio Retrieval engine
- Library of more than 22,000 audio cells
- Combines multiple concepts into evolving atmospheres
- Designed for cinematic ambience and sound design
- Local processing with no cloud uploads
- No subscription or token-based generation system
Pricing & Availability:
Sampleson Backgrounds is available now for macOS and Windows as a standalone application and VST3/AU plug-in, with an intro price of $39 USD (regularly $59).
Even though it’s not AI, that’s just incredibly lazy.
Sampleson’s products were AI before AI!
Toy
Enter the words “liquid fart stomach acid squeeze” no toy
I still don’t understand why there is such negative bias towards AI….
AI is incredibly powerful way of enhancing music that we create on multiple platforms.
Personally I’m all in
it’s like this: ever since sheet music and the player piano, musicians have been complaining about some aspect of their purvey being usurped by some technology, process, or people. we saw this with recording, synths, computers, and now AI. are they wrong? not particularly, from the point of performance imho. but each revolution/disruption engenders a new generation of ideas and musical forms. it’s the same in any industry. why argue over it when you could play some music instead?
-It steals the work done from others for ”training”
-Incredibly unethical for art and creativity in general
-environmental disaster with the datacenters
-The AI CEO tech bros are sociopaths surfing on fear to force us to use it (if you don’t use it you’ll lose your job, if you don’t use it you’ll be left behind, if you don’t use it you’re a dinosaur, etc)
-Constant market hype
-Constantly being shove down our throats
-95% of the stuff that shits out of it is slop and digital diarrhea
-Encourages cognitive laziness
-Digital serfdom
Shall I continue?
Thanks for clarification Pablo.
Now I’m definitely all in 🙂
Please don’t’.
That was a pointless, trite, reactionary waste of time.
I’m not a big fan of AI tools but please don’t subject us to any more crap.
Choose Human over cyborg.
Some of your points are simply subjective. But you have some point.
Like everybody, it’s not about wrong or right.
You yourself stole the work by others to train yourself, or did you developed your musical skills and talent on the moon, no. You and I learnt from the best, not paying a cent for that. Ethics are defined by culture, art has no rules, there is cultural marxism that is a pestilence. Environment true!! Im getting all my music and most YouTube off the web, it feels better. Sociopath is a psychiatric disorder that most of us suffer or benefit from. Peer pressure agains ai is as bad as the opposite. your next tree point are all the same. Laziness? how’s to decide if I’m lazy or not, you? Last point screams paranoia.
pfff
Shall I continue? Go make music, and don’t use what you don’t want but stay clear from telling others how and what, that’s cultural barbarism imho
tbh, it’s of little importance to me that an yet another entirely new genre of music i don’t like is born. it’s not like it never happened before. sheet music was going to ‘destroy the industry’, then player pianos, then tape recording, then studio musicians, then synthesizers, then computer DAW’s. at each step, some vocal group is disenfranchised and inevitably folks move on. to me, AI is no different than all the existing algorithmic production tools. if that’s what you like, go for it. if you don’t like it, then don’t use it. the world turns, stay on or get off.