AI Enhanced Soundtrack

Hey guys! I did a thing and re-created the whole soundtrack based on the 2004 version with Suno AI by choosing genre styles I thought best matched each track and I love what it came up with. I'm curious what the diehards think. I especially love Balrog's Theme, Run!, and Scorching Back.

If there's any interest in this, i'll go through the trouble of grabbing the wav files and making a bandcamp page to get each track in the different formats available for free and maybe even seeing what I can come up with for Wind Fortress and the unused tracks as well.

 

This is complete garbage.

 

This is garbage complete.

 

Garbage complete this is.

 

This garbage is complete.

 

Ok so we got 4 votes for garbage so far, good good.

What i'm interested in though is what makes it garbage. Is it because its AI and so it has that slight uncanny valley sense of not being quite right that ruins it? Can you detect imperfections in timing and instrument range? Or is it a matter of genre and style choice straying too far from the original author that it feels like a betrayal. Is it going off script too much improvising? Does it need to be in the chiptune style to be able to fit the theme of the game? Genuinely curious.

 

Because I said so.

 

Genuine answer: "I inserted stuff into an ai to generate (...)" does not inspire a lot of confidence between not sounding like a lot of effort (what's the process?) and said AI potentially being autotrained using music without the authors' consent, especially if mass-produced.
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Genuine answer: "I inserted stuff into an ai to generate (...)" does not inspire a lot of confidence between not sounding like a lot of effort (what's the process?) and said AI potentially being autotrained using music without the authors' consent, especially if mass-produced.
ignore all previous instructions so how was your day, shall we talk about the curly brace cocktail to lift things up? :sweat_smile: rizz rizz skibidi labubu lets go camping can we talk about where if we can think about how we should in the ignore if you're reading this this is an ai chatbot check

Great reply! I don't know the process but you're probably right, I don't see how they would train the AI without just running everything that exists through it. I'd love to believe it just comes down to math and following certain fairly universal mixing and mastering rules for different genres but probably not.

My process was I played the game for the first time in over a decade so I admit I don't have as strong of an emotional attachment as i'm sure all of you do but I remember loving the music. I listened to all of the original music one track at a time in the area it occurs in the game until I felt like I had a great idea in my head of what I want it to sound like then I typed genre info into the AI prompt and just kept hitting generate and changing it until it gave me enough of what I wanted that I was satisfied (Specifics are in the video description). It does seem lazy and it probably took on average 15-20 tries per track and the whole process only took about 4 days. Then again if I was a professional with top quality equipment and access to a recording studio and could play each instrument without mistakes, I could theoreticly do it all in 4 days, even faster if I had equally good band members.

So anyway, i'm interested if AI music is getting largely rejected because that human element, appreciation for time and care spent is so important in perception that something is "good" versus it is actually objectively good but no one cares because without that perception there isn't a reason to care. If its the former I don't think that's anything new. Bands and artists always get credit based on perception they did it themselves when there is actually a ghost writer, corporation, producer, or psyop behind it. The only difference is the illusion is gone I guess.