内容来源：https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/990197/roland-ai-music-melody-flip

内容总结：

罗兰公司近日推出了一款名为“Melody Flip”的全新工具，正式涉足生成式AI音乐领域。与Suno一键生成完整歌曲的模式不同，该插件旨在为音乐人提供创作灵感，而非产出成品曲目。

作为数字音频工作站（DAW）的插件，Melody Flip内置约250种“调色板”，按音乐风格分类，涵盖大量主题化音乐素材。用户既可从头开始，自由组合生成旋律、和弦进行、贝斯线或鼓点，也可导入参考曲目，让AI在此基础上延展旋律构思。

与Suno或Udio等竞品相比，Melody Flip不会输出带人声和完整编曲的成品歌曲，而是提供简单的音乐循环片段，供用户二次创作。其控制选项相对有限，不支持“原声乡村摇滚加清亮男声、抒情型创作歌手、轻柔刷鼓及稀疏踏板钢棒吉他，每分钟98拍”这样的文本指令来生成特定风格模仿作品。用户只能选择流派、音符密度、速度和调性，再接受AI生成的结果。流派选项颇为细致，既有“80年代迪斯科”“90年代R&B”等常规类型，也涵盖“卡哇伊未来贝斯”“动漫世界”等小众风格。

声音选择进一步印证，Melody Flip的产出并非可即用成品。其预设音色多为90年代电子游戏中的通用MIDI音源。使用逻辑应是让用户将MIDI数据直接导出至DAW，配合更强大的合成器插件进行编辑加工。

此前几年，罗兰公司曾因混乱的“罗兰云”订阅服务饱受诟病，一度迷失方向。但近期其产品线明显回暖：P-6创意采样器、SH-4d合成器及Gaia 2均解决了产品线关键痛点。去年，公司更顺应客户呼声，推出TR-1000致敬经典模拟时代。然而，鉴于音乐界对生成式AI的普遍抵触情绪，Melody Flip恐怕难以赢得业界太多好感。

中文翻译：

这并非Suno那种“一键生成歌曲”的体验，但Roland新推出的Melody Flip工具标志着该公司正式进军生成式AI音乐领域。作为一款数字音频工作站（DAW）插件，Melody Flip提供约250种“调色板”，本质上是以流派分类的主题化音乐灵感合集。你可以从零开始，让它生成旋律、和弦进行、低音线或鼓点的任意组合；也可以输入一首参考曲目，让它基于该曲的旋律思路进行延展。

Roland携Melody Flip进军生成式AI音乐

这款插件并非要产出完整打磨的成品曲目，而是意在充当创作火花的角色。

与Suno或Udio不同，Melody Flip不会直接生成带人声和完整编曲的精良歌曲。相反，它提供简单的音乐循环片段，旨在作为你进一步创作的灵感起点。对输出的控制相对有限——你不能向Melody Flip输入类似“原声乡村摇滚，干净男声，文学气质的创作歌手风格，轻柔刷鼓，稀疏踏板钢棒吉他，98BPM”这样的文字提示，然后得到一首模仿Jason Isbell的作品。相反，你基本上只能选择流派、音符密度、BPM和调性，然后接受所得到的结果。不过流派选项相当细致，从“80年代迪斯科”“90年代R&B”这类常规类别，到“卡哇伊未来贝斯”“动漫世界”之类的小众风格，应有尽有。

音色选择进一步证明了你不应直接使用Melody Flip的原始输出。其内置预置大多是你在90年代电子游戏里能听到的那种通用MIDI音色。看起来其预期用法是将Melody Flip的MIDI数据导出到你的DAW中，自行加工处理，并与其他更强大的合成器插件搭配使用。

在经历了数年迷失方向、因其混乱的Roland Cloud订阅服务而疏远客户之后，该公司最近终于重回正轨。P-6创意采样器、SH-4d和Gaia 2合成器都解决了公司产品线的主要问题。而Roland去年也终于倾听客户心声，以TR-1000向自身的模拟血统致以诚挚敬意。但考虑到音乐界对生成式AI的整体反应，Melody Flip恐怕难以为其赢得多少好感。

英文来源：

It’s not quite the “push button; get song” of Suno, but Roland’s new Melody Flip tool marks the company’s foray into generative AI music. Available as a plug-in for your digital audio workstation (DAW), Melody Flip offers around 250 “Palettes,” which are essentially themed collections of musical ideas sorted by genre. You can start from scratch and ask it to generate any combination of melody, chord progression, bassline, or drums. Or you can feed it a reference track and have it build off the melodic ideas from that.
Roland is getting into generative AI music with Melody Flip
Rather than fully polished tracks, the plugin is supposed to act as a creative spark.
Rather than fully polished tracks, the plugin is supposed to act as a creative spark.
Unlike Suno or Udio, Melody Flip doesn’t spit out fully polished songs with vocals and full arrangements. Instead, it offers simple musical loops meant to serve as a creative spark for you to build on. There are fairly limited control over the outputs. You can’t feed Melody Flip a text prompt like “acoustic country rock with clean male vocals, literate singer-songwriter, gentle brushed drums, and sparse pedal steel at 98BPM” and get a Jason Isbell ripoff. Instead, you basically just choose a genre, note density, BPM, musical key, and take what you get. Though the genre options are pretty fine-grained, going from standard fare like “80s disco” and “90s R&B” to esoteric things like “Kawaii Future Bass” and “Anime World.”
The sound selection is further proof that you’re not supposed to use Melody Flip outputs out of the box. The presets available are mostly the sort of general MIDI tones you’d find in ‘90s video games. It seems like the intended use is to export the MIDI data from Melody Flip directly into your DAW to manipulate and pair with other, more powerful synth plugins.
After years of seeming lost in the woods and alienating customers with its messy Roland Cloud subscription service, the company was back on track recently. The P-6 Creative Sampler, SH-4d, and Gaia 2 synth all addressed major issues with the company’s lineup. And Roland finally listened to customers last year, paying loving tribute to its analog heritage with the TR-1000. But considering the general response from the music community to generative AI, Melody Flip is unlikely to garner it much goodwill.