With Adobe’s new generative AI tool, you will be able to produce music with text prompts

Whether you’re a seasoned audio producer or someone only starting out, it is a commonly known fact that mixing is, indeed, challenging. But Adobe’s new generative AI tool will soon be able to help you create tunes based on prompts, and you guessed it right: you won’t need any professional experience. Titled Project Music GenAI Control, the new prototype tool was conceptualised for users to make, edit and share their music using only text.

How will the Adobe generative AI tool for music work?

According to the company, users will simply have to feed in prompts mentioning specific styles, such as “happy music” or “jazz dance”. Once done, Adobe mentions how the software will generate results that can be easily customisable, like Photoshop. This customisation will be able to fix any tempo, pattern or key that the user wants to change.

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Additionally, you may even cut and paste sections of this music to remix it. Or simply play it on a loop or add backing vocals to the track. The tool will also be able to generate music based on a reference melody, and you can also extend the time of a track to make it long enough if required. Adobe mentions how this could make it fit to be added to an animation or podcast.

That said, the company hasn’t revealed a user interface or mentioned how the tool will function. Owing to its nature, it could very well replicate mixing software and may likely be a laptop tool for users to work on with ease. Apart from this, there is little clarity about if the tool will allow users to upload tracks directly to it. However, Adobe has stated the availability of public domain content, which was uploaded for the demo version.

With AI taking the forefront in several industries, several brands seem to be taking a keen interest in developing tools for music. Some of them include Google’s MusicLM and Meta’s open-sourced AudioCraft. While these models, too, allow users to generate music with text prompts, they don’t have the option to customise further or edit the created tracks. The only other way to do the needful is to download and move them to a separate editing software. 

Adobe has currently labelled the tool an ‘early stage’ experiment and hasn’t mentioned if it will additionally be integrated into its existing software, like Premiere Pro and Audition. And while users await a rollout timeline for it, they can most certainly track developments on the Adobe Labs projects page.