From the archive · 2024 / 3 min
Logic Pro brought assistance into the session window.
Apple’s May 2024 update joined generative accompaniment and stem separation to familiar arranging decisions.
Read the retrospectiveFrom the archive / 2017–2024
How we got
to this session.
Eight developments in music tools, revisited through the choices they leave to musicians.
The dates below belong to the original research and announcements. These retrospectives were prepared on 16 September 2026.
8 pieces
From the archive · 2024 / 3 min
Adobe’s Project Music GenAI Control asked for edit handles.
The 2024 research preview shifted attention from generating a track to changing its motion, intensity and shape.
Read the retrospectiveFrom the archive · 2023 / 3 min
MusicGen made control a research instrument.
Meta’s 2023 AudioCraft release paired text-to-music research with an unusually concrete record of training and model limits.
Read the retrospectiveFrom the archive · 2023 / 3 min
MusicLM put the brief inside the generation loop.
Google’s 2023 experiment made text descriptions and hummed melody part of the same historical music-generation story.
Read the retrospectiveFrom the archive · 2020 / 3 min
Jukebox showed the cost of generating sound as sound.
OpenAI’s 2020 raw-audio research release made fidelity, conditioning and wait time impossible to separate.
Read the retrospectiveFrom the archive · 2019 / 3 min
Spleeter made the mix editable again—imperfectly.
Deezer’s 2019 source-separation release changed what a producer could inspect inside a finished recording.
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From the archive · 2018 / 3 min
MusicVAE treated a phrase as a palette, not a verdict.
The 2018 Magenta model made interpolation between symbolic ideas its central musical gesture.
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From the archive · 2017 / 3 min
NSynth made timbre a space to play in.
Google Magenta’s 2017 release suggested a neural instrument could be an audition room, not a replacement for one.
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