The Infinite Crate (Lyria RealTime VST)

A VST plugin that integrates Lyria RealTime directly into your DAW, reducing barriers to interactively create, control, and perform music in the moment.

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Overview

Welcome to the Infinite Crate! An imaginary crate of vinyl you can dig though to create a continually evolving stream of music filled with latent interpolations and wild new sounds for you to find.

The Infinite Crate is an experimental DAW plugin built on the new Lyria RealTime live music model in the Gemini API. The plugin allows users to mix together text prompts to steer a live music model in real-time, feeding audio directly into your DAW for sampling, live performance, or just giving you a practice partner to jam with.

Usage

Dig in the Crate

Explore new sounds by blending and merging genres, moods, instruments, or anything you can think of. Sample the stream of music to spark your own inspiration or help you get past a creative block.

Jam Along

Jam with Lyria RealTime by using it to create dynamic backing tracks that are different every time, varying and evolving as you play on top.

Be a Prompt DJ

Play Lyria RealTime like a live instrument. Use prompts and advanced controls to vary the instrumentation, texture, and genre. Incorporate with a DJ set to apply effects and mix with other loops.

Controls

BPM: Influences the model to generate audio at the specified BPM; it is imprecise. Set this to [SYNC] to instruct the model to generate audio at the specified BPM. Set this to [DAW] to use the BPM setting from your DAW.
Key: Instructs the model to generate audio in the specified key. It's imprecise and does not differentiate between major and relative minor.
TopK: Top-k sampling is a technique used to control the diversity of the generated audio. Lower values make the model more deterministic.
Temp: Influences the randomness of the model. Lower values make the model more deterministic.
Density: Controls the density of the audio. Higher values generate busier sounds. Turn this off to let the model decide.
Bright: Controls the brightness of the audio. Higher values generate more high frequency content. Turn this off to let the model decide.
Mute Bass / Drums / Other: Attempts to mute bass, drums, and other sounds from the plugins.
Guidance: Influences how much the model will try to match the text prompts and parameters (prompts) vs the most recently generated audio (context).

Installation

Download the plugin

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Get a Gemini API key

To use the plugin, you'll need to create a Gemini API key.

Install the plugin

Apple Silicon / M-series processors:

Unzip "The-Infinite-Crate-v0.1.0.zip"
Manually install the plugin
- VST3: Drag the .vst3 file into /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST3/
- AU: Drag the .component file into /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components/
- Standalone: Drag the .app file into /Applications/
Restart your DAW / rescan plugins

Plugin appears under Magenta->The Infinite Crate

Supported Platforms & Plugin Formats

Mac (Universal) - VST3 (Ableton), AU (Logic, Ableton)
Windows (x86_64) - VST3 (Ableton)

Troubleshooting

Known Limitations

After 10 minutes of continuous music generation, you'll need to restart your session by clicking the "Reset" button. This is because the experimental Lyria RealTime API currently has a 10 minute limit.
It will take at least 1 second for the audio to respond to your actions in the plug-in. Be patient, but also try turning up the sliders if you're not getting what you want.
Some audio dropouts may occur (eg. during buffering or resetting).
Some server dropouts may occur (eg. when using multiple plugin instances, or hitting the 10 minute limit).

Windows Ableton DPI fix

To improve sharpness on high DPI monitors using Windows/Ableton:

Click the "..." button in the top right of the plugin
Turn off "Auto Scale Plug-In Window"

Updating API Key

On Mac, open the terminal and execute command:

rm ~/Library/Application\ Support/Magenta/The\ Infinite\ Crate/The\ Infinite\ Crate.settings