Launch HN: Soundry AI (YC W24) – Music sample generator for music creators 6 by kantthpel | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hi everyone! We’re Mark, Justin, and Diandre of Soundry AI ( https://soundry.ai/ ). We provide generative AI tools for musicians, including text-to-sound and infinite sample packs. We (Mark and Justin) started writing music together a few years ago but felt limited in our ability to create anything that we were proud of. Modern music production is highly technical and requires knowledge of sound design, tracking, arrangement, mixing, mastering, and digital signal processing. Even with our technical backgrounds (in AI and cloud computing respectively), we struggled to learn what we needed to know. The emergence of latent diffusion models was a turning point for us just like many others in tech. All of a sudden it was possible to leverage AI to create beautiful art. After meeting our cofounder Diandre (half of the DJ duo Bandlez and expert music producer), we formed a