Hip hop instrumental tracks using machine learning

by Michael L Heuer | at Minnebar 17 | 10:20 – 11:05 in Learn | View Schedule

My kids and I enjoy 90s hip hop music but some lyrics from that era have not aged well. What if there was an easy way to create reasonably good instrumental versions of these songs?

Polymath is a suite of tools that uses machine learning to convert any music library into a music production sample-library. Polymath uses Demucs behind the scenes to separates tracks into stems for various instruments (drum, bass, guitar, piano, other, and vocals).

Polymath

https://github.com/samim23/polymath

Demucs Music Source Separation

https://github.com/facebookresearch/demucs

Demo gods willing I will run through a few examples. I would also be interested to learn from attendees about other tools & methods for accomplishing this and other music production sample processing tasks!

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Michael L Heuer

https://github.com/heuermh

Dad helping kids who love to build things.

Currently working remotely from Mpls for biotech startup Mammoth Biosciences, Inc. in San Francisco.