Rolands new AI technology preview claims it can freshen ideas, remove writers block, and discover the undiscovered and you can try it right now [Video]

With its Roland Cloud software, Roland has spent much of the past decade building up a vast library of sounds for electronic music makers to draw upon, from emulations of vintage synthesizers to sampled acoustic instruments, modern soundscape machines and beyond. It’s a bountiful, expansive collection – and it can be a lot to get your head around.

With its new ‘technology preview’ – launched by Roland’s Future Design Lab R&D arm – the company appears to be addressing this, aiming to help musicians overcome the decision paralysis that can come from being presented with so many potential sounds.

This help comes in the form of Tone Explorer, a new AI-assisted tool designed to match potential instrument sounds to your MIDI ideas. It does this by analysing a musical phrase with the help of neural networks, before presenting the user with a number of potential sounds that it suggests could suit it, ranked …