YouTube Tests AI Instrumentals Tool, Shorts Soundtrack Matching – Digital Music News

YouTube is now testing an AI instrumentals generator as well as a feature that matches Shorts clips to music. Photo Credit: Kelly SikkemaYouTube is officially testing AI-generated instrumentals as well as a Shorts soundtrack-matching feature. Creator Insider, billed as “an informal YouTube channel” operated by the platform’s “Creator technical team,” revealed those new offerings in a brief video.On the instrumentals side, the “gradually” expanding AI-music support appears straightforward enough. As laid out by program manager Lauren Fendel, certain channels can now use text prompts to generate fully cleared works.“These are free for you to use, so you don’t need to worry about copyright claims,” Fendel elaborated of the outputs.Despite the off-platform availability of Google’s MusicFX, the instrumentals generator processes these prompts (and provides downloadable audio) via a “Music Assistant” tab on YouTube Studio itself, the video shows.Shifting, then, to release details, the AI instrumentals are currently live for some channels that have access to YouTube Studio’s years-old Creator Music catalog. And the latter, which offers upfront and revenue-sharing licenses for protected works, is still exclusive to Partner Program-enrolled YouTubers in the States.(A few creators are taking to Reddit to inquire about Creator Music’s international-release timetable. But the appropriate support page
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