Can you put a banjo in a dubstep drop?: Jacob Collier teams up with Google to launch AI-powered music creation tool MusicFX DJ [Video]

Earlier this year, Google Labs launched MusicFX DJ, an AI-powered music generator that produces evolving and layered musical compositions based on text prompts.

Since then, the team behind MusicFX DJ has been busy developing the tool in partnership with Grammy-winning musical polymath Jacob Collier, and today they’ve unveiled an updated version that considerably expands what you can do with the platform, while making it more intuitive and user-friendly.

Like its earlier version, MusicFX DJ lets you stack multiple text prompts together to create music based on your instructions in real time. Simply type in the instrument, genre or vibe that you want to hear, and MusicFX will instantly generate sounds in response, blending them into the music in real time – a bit like you’re giving requests to a virtual, AI-powered DJ. 

MusicFX DJ’s interface lets you adjust the influence of each prompt on the overall composition or mute individual layers. In the latest version, …