Microsoft Songsmith

Microsoft Songsmith: Create Music Easily

A music creation software using AI, allowing users without musical experience to create and remix tracks

What is Microsoft Songsmith?

Microsoft Songsmith is a music composition tool originally developed by Microsoft Research. It was first released in 2008 as part of Microsoft's research into artificial intelligence and music.

Songsmith allows users to create and remix music easily, even without formal musical training. Its key feature is the use of AI to automatically generate professional-sounding accompaniment to match whatever vocals or instruments the user records. For example, a user could sing into a microphone and Songsmith will create background instruments and rhythms to match the vocals.

The goal of Songsmith was to democratize music creation and allow anyone, regardless of musical skill level, to quickly make music. The interface was designed to be simple and accessible to amateurs. Users can tweak the automatically generated accompaniments by changing instruments, tempo, and more to suit their creative preferences.

Since its initial launch, Microsoft has discontinued development on Songsmith. However, it demonstrated early, mainstream potential for AI to enable amateur music creation. Elements of its technology live on in other products such as Microsoft's Groove Music.

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