Artificial intelligence is fast revolutionising music software; recently, Google and Adobe both announced the next steps in their experimental adventures into music AI.
The latest development in this sphere is one of the most intriguing AI-based plugins we've seen in recent months. Combobulator from DataMind Audio processes incoming audio through neural networks trained on the music of artists and sound designers, resynthesising the audio using a process called "style transfer" to recreate the style of another artist using your sounds.
DataMind says that this lets you play "another artist's brain like an instrument" by synthesising new audio based on a combination of the input signal and the information in the neural networks. In practice, Combobulator acts more like an effects plugin that applies a new timbre to a sound while preserving its rhythmic and melodic content.