From avant-garde and experimental to soundtracks and commercial electronica, artistis in all kind of genres have used methods, libraries and tools for direct generation of waveforms, whether other processing will happen to them aftewards (manipulations, effects, and so) or they're the final result (there's also a big "generative music" scene as well, both academic and artistic). And that's for decades now. Of course recently hany have also started using AI's to produce generative music - with the API spitting out a final "waveform".
>Even karaoke machines use a signal pipeline to blend the singer's voice with the backing track. Generating finished waveforms is only good for elevator music.
Perhaps you have the kind of music played at the Grand Ole Orpy or something in mind.
Here are some trivial ways to use generated finished waveforms, sticking with the AI case alone:
- take the AI final result, sample it, and use it as you would loops from records or something like Splice.
- train the AI yourself, set parameters, tweek it, and the result is generative music you've produced (a genre that exists since the 60s at least, and is quite the opposite og "elevator music")
- use the generated music as a soundtrack for your film or video or video game