ROLAND LAUNCHES MELODY FLIP, ENTERS AI MUSIC GENERATION
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Roland has released Melody Flip, a generative AI music tool available as a DAW plug-in. The tool offers 250 themed musical palettes and can generate melodies, chord progressions, basslines, and drums from scratch or based on reference tracks.
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