Meta's largest open model: closed-frontier quality but datacenter requirements. In practice it needs high-VRAM multi-GPU or the cloud.
MusicGen Large (3B)
Released on Jun 8, 2023
Generates up to 30 seconds of music or sound effects from a text description. The open reference for music models: light and versatile.
Features
- 30 seconds
- Music & SFX
- 8GB VRAM
- Music conditioning
Version history
- MusicGen styleLatest
Modello aggiuntivo di Meta per controllare lo stile musicale generato.
- MusicGen stereo
Varianti stereo di MusicGen (small/medium/large e melody) per generazione in due canali.
- AudioCraft
Libreria open di Meta AI (MIT) che riunisce MusicGen, AudioGen ed EnCodec in un unico framework per l'audio generativo.
- MusicGen (small/medium/large)
Modello Meta (3B per large) basato su transformer autoregressivo unistadio sopra i token EnCodec, in grado di generare musica da testo e melodia.
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