Billionaire Kuok Family-Backed Music App BandLab Taps Into AI For TikTok’s Breakout Stars

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A scion of Malaysia’s richest family, Kuok Meng Ru transformed his love of classic rock and blues into a music empire. Looking ahead, his music production app BandLab aims to help everyone create songs for free.

“Our approach to AI is, I would say, a bit less conventional,” Meng Ru says. SongStarter, BandLab’s AI tool, generates royalty-free instrumental ideas that users can use as the starting point for their own songs. To customize the output, BandLab’s users can type lyrics or emojis into SongStarter, which then uses Google’s TensorFlow machine learning system to produce three possible ‘vibes.

BandLab says this is just “the start” of its expansion into AI-powered music-making tools, but declined to list new features. To date, AI-powered tools are able to replicate performances and separate the components of backing tracks: open-source voice generator Uberduck can mimic the sound of popular rappers, like Kendrick Lamar and Drake, while streaming giant Spotify’s Basic Pitch tool can translate audio input into editable MIDI files.

“Everybody today has a musical instrument in their hands, which is their mobile phone, and more people are making music today than ever before in history.”The founder says BandLab’s “consumer experience” centers on a music aficionado’s learning journey, from buying a physical guitar to exploring online music production. Another part of this sprawling ecosystem are long-established media publications.

 

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