AI can create realistic images, streamline communication, and even generate chill beats. That’s right; there’s a free mobile app that uses artificial intelligence to help you generate your own personalized never-ending soundscapes.
It’s called Aimi, and it might become the score to your life. Or, at least, some background music while you’re working or lifting weights.
What Is Aimi?
Aimi is “the platform for generative music.” It provides you with ten starter songs that you then customize through a combination of slider settings and letting the app know what you like and dislike in the songs. So you're not using a music generator to create your own music so much as creating a unique listening experience out of existing Aimi music.
Over time, each track gradually becomes tailored to something that’s just right for you. Think of it as a cross between Pandora and Hatnote.
You can listen to Aimi without an app installation by selecting Listen from the top of the website linked above, but it is also available as a mobile app for iOS and Android devices.
Download: Aimi for iOS | Android (Free)
How to Use Aimi to Create Your Own Soundscapes
Whether you listen online or use the Aimi app, you have to create an account. Fortunately, since the app is free, all you'll need is an email address and password. Then it’s time to start listening.
Aimi starts you out with ten starter tracks:
- Serenity
- Flow
- Electronica
- Chill
- Amapiano
- House
- Deep
- Push
Each track consists of brief "sections" that endlessly shuffle. When you pick a track, you have three pages of options. The first page lets you like, dislike, and reshuffle sections. When you like a section, Aimi shuffles it into your track more often, and when you dislike a section Aimi doesn’t play it as much.
Swiping left within a track brings you to the customization pages.
Customizing Your Music With Aimi
The first of these pages lets you turn different elements of the track up, down, or all the way off. These elements include:
- Harmony
- Bass
- FX
- Pads
- Melody
- Tops
- Beats.
Swipe left again for a page of sliders that lets you fine-tune your tracks even more. These elements include:
- Intensity
- Progression
- Vocals
- Texture.
If you aren’t familiar with any of those terms, there’s a question mark icon next to the term that gives you a brief explanation. With this batch of musical elements, you can’t always hear the difference right away. For example, not all sections include vocals.
There’s also a settings menu you can access through a gear icon in the top right corner of the screen, but that has nothing to do with the music. It just gives you app and account information.
What We Think About Aimi
We’ve been listening to Aimi for a few weeks now. After having heard something from all of the tracks, you’ll probably develop one or two favorites and recognize one or two to stay away from. That’s one of the benefits of the ten offered tracks; you might want to listen to Serenity before bed, Amapiano at work, and Push at the gym.
As much as this platform pushes the AI element in music production, a lot of the customization just comes from the mixer element. Some of the tracks sound really similar until you turn the base all the way down. Electronica, with everything turned down except FX, becomes just rainforest white noise.
And, on the topic of using the app for background noise, it can run in the background of your device, which includes when your device is inactive or even while you’re using other apps.
More to Explore
This article has just covered Aimi for the listener, but there are also special tools and services for music creators as well. However, if you’re just using Aimi to listen to some background music, then you're in luck. Aimi is fun to use, and it’s free.
