A Little Knowledge… #29

?? BULLETIN NEWS: BeatStars and Moises launch new AI-powered tools for musicians

We've heard a lot about?AI being a tool for musicians rather than a threat to them. Two of the latest examples come from startups?BeatStars?and Moises:

• Beats marketplace BeatStars has a new feature.?Driven by a partnership with AI music startup?Lemonaide,?'Seeds by Lemonaide' will generate short melodies and chord progressions as a 'starting point' for beatmakers' tracks.
• It's a comparable feature to?BandLab's 'SongStarter' which launched last year.?'Seeds' will be part of its Starter and Professional subscription plans.
• Moises?made its name as an app using AI to remove or isolate vocals and instruments in tracks, and adjust their speed and pitch,?to help musicians who are practising.
• It has added three more tools:?AI lyrics transcription;?'Advanced Chords' offering?more accurate chord detection, including more complex ones used in genres like jazz; and'Song Sections' which uses AI to detect and loop sections of songs to aid practice sessions.

?? Music Ally archive: Artificial Intelligence

??? TOOLS: VoxFeed - an affordable way for creators to make UGC with your music

VoxFeed?is an interesting platform: it could potentially be a cost-effective solution if you want to generate user-generated content around your music?across social platforms like TikTok and Instagram, as well as?providing?flexibility on how you run campaigns. You create a brief for creators – including which hashtags to use – and creators then get on with making short video content using your music. VoxFeed is free to use until a creator actually posts a video, at which point you pay the creator their fee. This means the platform can be used both by smaller as well as more established artists: campaigns can start from $10.

???In this weeks’ Tools,?we take a closer look at its features?and relevant competitors too.

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?? A LITTLE SOMETHING EXTRA...

And finally… our daily Bulletin newsletter is loved by subscribers for its instant industry analysis - but secretly, the part they like most is the ‘A Little Something Extra’ section at the bottom of the email. Here's a few of the best recent links:

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