Jesse Engel

@jesseengel

Guitarist, Researcher Google DeepMind. Opinions are my own. @jesseengel.bsky.social @[email protected]

Joined April 2009

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Jesse Engel
@jesseengel
Jun 4
Had one of those "Oh, I'm living in the future" moments yesterday. Flying on the airplane. No internet. Playing music with hand gestures controlling a realtime LLM running locally on my laptop Person next to me thinking I'm crazy... all the while I'm having a great time 😅
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Jesse Engel
@jesseengel
Jun 5
Really amazing work getting MRT2 running remotely, porting to pytorch, and streaming through the browser... and it hasn't even been a day!
apolinario (poli)
@multimodalart
Jun 5
I' m so addicted to @GoogleMagenta RealTime 2 🎹 so to justify playing with it 24/7 I ported the real-time apps to @huggingface Spaces 🤗 (and ported the entire lib to pytorch/transformers too) Play live in real time on huggingface.co/magenta-commun…
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Jesse Engel
@jesseengel
Jun 4
I always love listening to Noah playing MRT2, he's really brought a lot of his musician sensibilities into developing the model. That was one of the fun parts, we all came from different musical backgrounds, and all have our own favorite way of using it.
Noah Constant
@noahconst
Jun 4
Replying to @GoogleMagenta
We had so much fun building MRT2. Proud to see it go live. Here's a chord steering example. Name that tune anyone?
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Jesse Engel
@jesseengel
Jun 4
It's been a joy working with Yotam over these years. From NSynth and AI Duet, to Magenta RealTIme 2, there's a thread of building actual instruments with this technology that is close to both our hearts.
yotam mann
@yotammann
Jun 4
This year marks the 10 year anniversary of Magenta! We’re releasing Magenta RealTime 2, which draws from so many of the ideas that the group has been pursuing over the past 10 years: interactive, genre-bending, open-source tools by and for musicians
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Jesse Engel
@jesseengel
Jun 4
I'm so proud of the team for this work. Live, Local, Open, MRT2 is just a lot of fun, and is an AI Instrument puts the person back at the center of making music.
Google Magenta Project
@GoogleMagenta
Jun 4
Introducing Magenta RealTime 2 (MRT2): the live music model you can play as an instrument. MRT2 offers MIDI and prompt controls, and runs natively on a MacBook with <200ms latency. Open weights. Open source inference engine. Suite of apps and plugins. Hear what it can do and
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