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DEMON

DEMON: Diffusion Engine for Musical Orchestrated Noise

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DEMON: Diffusion Engine for Musical Orchestrated Noise

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Observed mentions: 2026-05-27 16:17:22 UTC to 2026-10-07 17:08:29 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.

012026-05-25 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsMay 252026-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-06-08 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-06-08 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-06-15 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2026-06-15 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-06-22 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-06-22 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-06-29 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-06-29 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-07-06 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-07-06 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-07-13 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-07-13 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-07-20 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-07-20 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-07-27 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-07-27 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-03 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsJul 272026-08-03 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-10 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-08-10 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-17 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-08-17 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-24 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-08-24 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-31 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-08-31 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-09-07 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-09-07 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-09-14 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-09-14 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-09-21 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-09-21 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-09-28 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-09-28 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-05 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-10-05 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-12 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsOct 5

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What Hacker News says

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hthillman·Oct 7, 2026Submission

Show HN: A virtual recording studio where you direct session players

Hi HN. I'm Hunter, one of the co-founders of Daydream, a small music research lab. Our research focus is musical control. Musicians steer each other by a shared set of rules: the chart, the groove, who's carrying the melody. We are building control models with real-time performance and an actual understanding of music. Our core real-time engine is open source and can be found here: https://github.com/daydreamlive/DEMON The preview I'm sharing is an in-browser recording studio with virtual session players you can direct in real time. You record, upload, or generate a source track. Then you book "session players" and build your way to a full song.
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4chandaily·Jun 12, 2026
You can't mention "AI" and music together without a negative response. I think entrenched business interests as well as musicians and other music industry adjacent people, plus the well intentioned but poorly informed public have developed a visceral knee jerk reaction to the concept. Some of this is understandable, but I think it is mostly fueled by astroturfing. I am a musician as well as a technology enthusiast, and I think this a very exciting time! To respond more directly to your point than your aside, there are a smattering of models out there that can take descriptions of sounds and do a decent job of creating them. (Stable Audio 3 just released last month and can do this, for example). - I don't find them to be useful for sampling, though. I'm still much quicker dialing in a sound with knobs or sliders than a text box. Diffus
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ion models in music making are not going away, though. This is (at least in part) the future. For a taste, look at some of the interesting things being done over in the Demon project - https://github.com/daydreamlive/DEMON - to me, this is a much more positive use of the tech than "type words/get song".
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ryanontheinside·May 27, 2026Submission

Show HN: Demon – open-source real-time music diffusion engine, 25Hz local GPU

YO, I’m Ryan, lead author. I’ve been contributing open source generative audio stuff for a while now, audio reactive Comfy nodes, extended ACEstep support in Comfy, etc.. I just opened-sourced a new audio project that I've been working on for a few months and I want to tell y'all about it. WHAT IS IS DEMON: Diffusion Engine for Musical Orchestrated Noise This is StreamDiffusion but with audio instead of images, and ACEStep 1.5 instead of Stable Diffusion. It’s responsive enough that you can play it like an instrument, and remix in near real-time. I also distilled the ACEStep VAE: it’s faster at the expense of some quality. I also trained something like 200 lora/dora for ACEStep 1.5 and 1.5XL: I will release these in batches of 5 or 10 or something WHY IT IS Two reasons: 1) Making music is an inherently real-time activity 2) Why not bro SO
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ME RUNTIME CAPABILITIES -Real-time remixing of songs -Denoise, structure, timbre strength adjustment -Reference track swapping -Prompt blending, parameter scheduling with curves -LoRA hotswapping, runtime strength adjustment -Latent channel (research preview) -Feedback -Vocal stem cutting/pasting with melformer (s/o u/BuffMcBigHuge) -XL support (its less stable, working out VRAM pressure issues and whatnot) -Lyrics/vocals SOON -Spectral quality SOON -Other stuff SOME LIMITATIONS -ACEStep (correctly) ‘begins’ and ‘ends’ the song. This system is optimized for remixing either an entire song, or continuously remixing a loop. The loop works fine, but this is not pure, continuous music. Autogression wins here. -Many others, for a more exhaustive list, please see the full writeup via the project page -Please let us know if you find any, I would love to try and address them if possible LINKS My YouTube (DEMON tutorial): https://youtu.be/FBv1b5gmjcE Github: https://github.com/daydreamlive/DEMON Project page: https://daydreamlive.github.io/DEMON LoRA: https://civitai.com/models/2416425/acestep-loras DreamVAE: https://huggingface.co/daydreamlive/DreamVAE Try it w/o installing: https://music.daydream.live
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