Amadeus Topline

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I’m not going to have this for only 14 days without paying

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I thought this app could generate some good sounds, but after plenty of listens I have given up hope. The melodies are soul-less; you can’t even call them pathetic or sad, because that would be proscribing an emotion onto the faceless banality of the algorithm. It’s creations are truly the absence of any emotion or feeling—vacuous and empty— and even that may be giving Amadeus too much credit. If anything, this app reveals how far we are from having AI assist songwriters in the creation of their work.

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All the sounds and expression of a $20 Casio keyboard from 1987 without a hint of irony. A baby could write better songs.

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If you’ve never heard a good song you might believe Amadeus is writing great tunes. Amadeus seems to think so. But the AI is one lousy songwriter. I mean: really, really awful. Using the DNA from a library of great tunes, Amadeus creates cheap knockoffs. The chords are okay sometimes. The melodies, on the other hand, are mostly tuneless warbles, frequently disconnected from the backing chords and, on every occasion, falling somewhere between confused and unlistenable. The export options are good but, seriously, why anyone would want to use the ideas Amadeus generates is beyond me. If you have absolutely no musical talent, Amadeus is not the solution unless the problem you’re solving is there’s not enough bad music in the world. And if you have the talent, Amadeus will leave you scratching your head wondering what all the fuss over Artificial Intelligence is about.

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Interesting for about 5 mins then it becomes so repetitive and derivative as to become annoying. Even with the sliders available to “customize” your tune it’s a toy at best. Not to mention it hangs constantly. Then on top of that it continues to ask for a reload of $1.99. Seriously?