AWS’ bizarre AI-powered keyboard experiment, DeepComposer, isn’t any extra.
In a weblog submit in the present day, the corporate introduced it’s shutting down the five-year-old DeepComposer, a bodily MIDI piano and AWS service that permit customers compose songs with the assistance of generative AI.
“After cautious consideration, now we have made the choice to finish help for AWS DeepComposer,” Kanchan Jagannathan, AWS AI units program supervisor, wrote. “When you have information saved on the AWS DeepComposer console, it is possible for you to to make use of AWS DeepComposer as regular till September 17, 2025, when help for the service will finish.”
DeepComposer, launched in 2019 at AWS’ annual re:Invent convention, was a 32-key, two-octave MIDI keyboard and assortment of instruments for AI-powered music technology. AWS reasonably bombastically referred to as it the “the world’s first machine learning-enabled musical keyboard for builders.”
Utilizing the AWS DeepComposer service, customers may document a melody with the bodily keyboard or on-screen keys, choose a genre-specific music-generating mannequin, and have DeepComposer create a full-length track. The completed observe may very well be performed within the AWS console or exported and shared to SoundCloud.
DeepComposer was initially a dev-only product, however launched to all AWS prospects in 2020, with the MIDI keyboard priced at $99.
Opinions had been combined on DeepComposer’s simple of use — and musicality. Many reviewers of the MIDI keyboard complained that they couldn’t get the keys working correctly, and that the AI instrumentation left a lot to be desired.
My colleague Frederic Lardinois was equally underwhelmed when he took DeepComposer for a spin in 2019. However, as he famous in his piece, DeepComposer was at all times meant to be extra of a studying software than a software for writing the subsequent High 40 track — alongside the strains of different AWS AI units just like the DeepLens digicam and DeepRacer AI automobile.
