BandLab Technologies acquires AI

BandLab Technologies acquires AI-powered music making platform Aiode

“BandLab Technologies breadth of experience gives us a much broader foundation for where Aiode can go as the ways people make music continue to evolve.”

Credit: BandLab Technologies/Aiode

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BandLab Technologies – the company behind BandLab, Cakewalk, ReverbNation and Airbit – has acquired Aiode, an AI-powered digital music studio that lets creators make music with fully-licensed audio by professional session musicians and producers.

Aiode now joins BandLab Technologies’ portfolio of music-making platforms, as the third entry alongside BandLab and Cakewalk.

Aiode essentially allows music creators to begin with a blank project or import their own audio, before selecting from a choice of musician and style-based models to play across the track. These performances can be directed section by section, with alternate takes generated for individual parts without affecting the rest of the song. Finished projects can then be downloaded as stems or a complete mix.

With a focus on ethical AI, 100% of the audio used to train Aiode’s proprietary AI models – including performances by professional musicians – is licensed and traceable to its source.

Aiode will continue to exist as a standalone product, with service uninterrupted for existing users.

“Aiode shares BandLab Technologies’ ethos of innovation and giving music makers every opportunity to find success,” says Idan Dobrecki, CEO and Co-Founder of Aiode.

“Since Aiode was founded in 2022, we’ve worked side by side with professional musicians to create technology that respects their artistry and keeps them involved in how their musical identity is represented. BandLab Technologies gives us the opportunity to bring that approach to more creators.”

Aiode COO and Co-Founder Blue Dobrecky also praises the perfect fit of Aiode and BandLab Technologies.

“What sets Aiode apart is that it was made hand in hand with musicians, who share in the value their work helps create,” says Drew Silverstein, Senior Advisor, AI, Innovation and Strategy at BandLab Technologies.

“That makes Aiode a natural fit for BandLab Technologies. We believe responsible technology and a product creators actually want to use should go together.”

Idan Dobrecki and Blue Dobrecky will continue to lead Aiode as CEO and COO, respectively.

Native audio recording and additional DAW functionality are planned for future versions of Aiode, and we’ll bring you more details on those as we have them.

Sam is the Associate News Editor for Guitar.com and MusicTech. Thoroughly immersed in music culture for the majority of his life, Sam has played guitar for 20 years, studied music technology and production at university, and also written for the likes of MusicRadar, Guitar World, Total Guitar and Metal Hammer.

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