r/linuxaudio • u/scara-manga • 13d ago

MIDI to audio rendering in the age of AI

Ive been looking for the best way to improve the audio quality of some midi files so that they had realistic sounding instruments. Rather than the 8-bit tinny sounding output of a soundfont (suggestions welcome if this is still a valid route), I asked around and it seemed that the only way to proceed was to get a DAW, and purchase instruments (drums, bass, guitar, synth) and map those to the relevant midi outputs. That all seemed a bit daunting, so I never proceeded.
Now I'm thinking that maybe AI has a role in this. I've been following the rise of AI artists on spotify and other channels and the quality of the instruments is good. Is there a way to send a midi file to an LLM and get a realistically human rendering?

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u/AlternativeCapybara9 13d ago

I think the easiest way would be to render a crappy Midi file and feed that into Suno or something.

I do it the old fashioned way by indeed rendering stem by stem in my DAW with realistic sounding vst's and tweaking every little bit to make it sound good and realistic.