AI Music Composer
AI music composers make it fun and easy to generate inspiring chord progressions, basslines and melodies. Here’s why adding one to your music production workflow is so valuable.
What is an AI music composer?
AI music composers differ from AI music generators because they don’t generate entire songs.
Instead, an AI music composer generates MIDI data to control synths, samplers and software instruments.
To generate useful music, these tools are trained on large databases of MIDI data that give them the context they need.
You can generate anything from a simple chord progression to a complex harmony with a melody and bassline using only a handful of simple controls.
They’re best used to find inspiration quickly and as a starting point for learning and using complex music theory concepts like inversions and extensions in your music.
Why LANDR Composer leads the pack
LANDR Composer is a simple, fun and easy tool that offers an impressive set of AI music composition capabilities.
If you’re looking for an intuitive MIDI generator that offers many options for composing interesting chord progressions with a bassline and melody, give it a try!
It’s a powerful plugin that can inspire ideas in your DAW.
Here’s a snapshot of what it can do.
Generate ideas fast
There are a few ways to start your next track with LANDR Composer.
Start with a four-bar loop by clicking the generate button when you load the plugin.
Listen to what it generates and settle on a chord progression that sounds interesting to you.
Alternatively, if you have a mood or feeling in mind, LANDR Composer has hundreds of chord progressions categorized into many different moods and sentiments.
Once you find a chord progression you like, the fun starts.
Choose from a large bank of preset instruments
Finding the right instrument is critical for making any chord progression sound good.
One of the best ways to find an inspiring sound fast is by sifting through a bank of preset synths.
LANDR Composer comes with a sizable collection of great present synth sounds that make it super easy to hear how your chords sound on a variety of instrument sounds.
Whether you’re looking for a dreamy pad, a dancy bass synth or some heavier synth stabs, you’ll find something that’ll spark your imagination.
Find a sound you like and get ready to dive into making that chord progression stick out.
Inversions and extensions, simplified
Once you have a chord progression and a synth sound, you may find that simple triads sound flat and uninteresting.
Two common music theory tools used to make a chord progression sound more interesting are inversions and extensions.
Inversions keep the same chord value while changing the order of notes in the chord's bass.
Inversions have many uses but mainly they help make the changes in a chord progression smoother and less jarring.
Extensions add further notes to the basic triad, like a major seventh note for example. They can add pleasing dissonance to a chord and make a chord progression sound jazzy.
The music theory behind chord inversions and extensions doesn’t have to be intimidating. With the help of AI music composers like LANDR Composer, inverting or extending a chord is simple and can help make an average chord progression much more interesting.
Create groovy rhythms
Putting too much focus on the chord progression itself can sometimes leave rhythm to the wayside, which isn’t ideal.
Rhythm is one of the most important parts of any song since it defines so much about a song’s energy, structure and even genre.
Fortunately, AI music composers can generate rhythms for your chord progressions.
LANDR Composer creates options for putting rhythm into the chords it generates, whether it's a simple quarter note pattern, strumming sweeps, arpeggiated chords or even odd polyrhythms.
All you have to do is dial in your settings and let it compose an interesting rhythm.
Fast track bassline and melody inspiration
If you’re not sure what to play over your chord progression, an AI music composer can help you find bassline and melody inspiration too.
Whether you need a starting point for a bassline or for a melody, LANDR Composer is a capable tool that uses AI to match basslines and melodies to the chord changes in your progression.
Once it generates something that inspires you, you can easily make changes inside LANDR Composer or export all of the MIDI for further editing in your DAW.
Start using AI music composers in your music-making workflow
Don’t let music theory get in the way of writing your next track. Get help producing better, more interesting music right now with any LANDR Studio subscription.
