Published
Tue, Jun 27, 2023, 16:00
- The new tool finds and matches samples from the platform's vast archive.
Online sample library Splice now offers an AI tool.
Splice Create uses AI to search through more than 1.9 million samples on the platform and find creative ways to put them together. Users select from 12 possible musical genres and Create will pick four loops from Splice's library that have been tuned to the same key and tempo. You can then swap loops in and out, mute and solo them, change their tempo or build up more layers of sound by adding more samples.
Up to eight loops can be stacked together, with samples grouped into buckets such as pads, chords, vocals, brass and keys. One or all of the samples can then be downloaded as audio stems or exported directly as an Ableton set.
Unlike many of the AI music tools entering the market, Create doesn't use AI to generate any sounds or music. Instead, the AI is used to help search and sort through Splice's archive in a creative way. As the tool draws from such a vast pool of samples, each time it generates a new combination of loops. According to Splice, this is essentially a new piece of music that no one will ever have heard before.
Splice hopes the new feature will make it easy for users to discover samples, sketch out ideas and find a starting point for their creative process. The feature is free to use, though you pay for any samples you export.
Watch a video about Splice Create.