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AWS ’ weird AI - powered keyboard experimentation , DeepComposer , is no more .
In ablog posttoday , the party announced it ’s shutting down the 5 - twelvemonth - previous DeepComposer , a physical MIDI forte-piano and AWS serving that permit users compose vocal with the help of reproductive AI .
“ After careful thoughtfulness , we have made the decisiveness to terminate support for AWS DeepComposer , ” Kanchan Jagannathan , AWS AI devices political program manager , pen . “ If you have data point store on the AWS DeepComposer cabinet , you will be capable to use AWS DeepComposer as normal until September 17 , 2025 , when support for the military service will end . ”
DeepComposer , launched in 2019 at AWS ’ one-year re : Invent group discussion , was a 32 - key , two - octave MIDI keyboard and collection of tools for AI - power music generation . AWS rather grandiosely called it “ the existence ’s first machine erudition - enabled musical keyboard for developer . ”
Using the AWS DeepComposer service , users could tape a air with the strong-arm keyboard or on - screen Florida key , choose a genre - specific music - generating model , and have DeepComposer make a full - distance song . The ruined cart track could be play in the AWS console or exported and shared to SoundCloud .
DeepComposer was initially a dev - only production butlaunchedto all AWS customer in 2020 , with the MIDI keyboard priced at $ 99 .
Opinions were commingle on DeepComposer ’s ease of function — and musicalness . Manyreviewersof the MIDI keyboard plain that they could n’t get the keys working properly and that the AI instrumentation left much to be desired .
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My colleague Frederic Lardinois was similarly underwhelmed when he shoot DeepComposer for a twist in 2019 . But , as he noted in hispiece , DeepComposer was always meant to be more of a acquisition tool than a tool for writing the next Top 40 song — along the line of other AWS AI machine like theDeepLens cameraandDeepRacer AI car , both of which AWS also exclude down in late years ( though DeepRacer lives onvirtually ) .
