Live Generative Music in your DAW

Today, we’re happy to share The Infinite Crate, a DAW plugin prototype that integrates the Lyria RealTime API directly into your favorite music software. Use text prompts to steer a continuously evolving stream of music and feed the audio directly into your DAW for sampling, live performance, or a backing track to jam with.

Integrating generative models with existing creative workflows has always been an important part of Magenta’s mission, as it allows people more control and agency in how they use these models in their own practice. Our previous experiments with plugins, including Magenta Studio for manipulating MIDI clips and DDSP VST for realtime audio-to-audio transformations, have over a million downloads combined and have validated for us the value of making these tools creatively accessible.

We hope The Infinite Crate will be a welcome addition to this lineup. We were inspired to create it though our collaborations with musicians such as Jacob Collier and Toro y Moi, where we saw the potential for integrating capabilities similar to MusicFX DJ more directly into studio and live performance workflows.

The Infinite Crate is cross-platform, available for both Mac and Windows, as a VST3 plugin, an AU component, and a standalone app.

Looking ahead

Lyria RealTime is not capable of running locally on consumer hardware, so thus the plugin requires an API key (free for Lyria RealTime) and internet access. We’re excited to explore complementing this approach with more efficient variants that can run locally on consumer hardware such as our recently released open model Magenta RealTime, so stay tuned!