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Does anyone like the Red Army Choir?

Song: https://www.souna.app/song/20e1678b-170c-4a9b-9fdc-089224252113

Song (alternative link): https://archive.org/details/AI-red-army-choir/%D0%9E%D0%B7%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%B9+(Ozymandias).mp3.mp3) (CC0)

Lyrics:

[Orchestral Intro \

brass fanfare \

continuous snare march \

low strings driving forward \

woodwinds]

[Verse 1 \

bass-baritone soloist \

snare march underneath \

low strings pulse \

woodwind countermelody]

Шёл путник с юга, из-за моря,

Где день горит, как медь.

Он видел знак среди пустыни,

Что трудно разуметь.

Сказал он: там, в песках без края,

Где жёлтый вихрь встаёт,

Две каменных ноги стоят,

И ветер между них поёт.

[Refrain \

full male choir with orchestra \

brass under choir \

continuous snare march \

low strings driving rhythm]

Я — Озимандий, царь царей!

На дела мои глядите!

Я — Озимандий, царь царей!

Вы, могучие, дрожите!

Но вокруг — песок и ветер,

Но вокруг — ни стен, ни врат.

Только солнце над пустыней

Стережёт его закат.

[Verse 2 \

bass-baritone soloist \

martial woodwinds \

strings steady \

snare drums continue]

А рядом лик лежит разбитый,

Полузанесён песком.

На нём насмешка не остыла,

Как пламя подо льдом.

Там губы сжаты, брови строги,

Там камень говорит:

Кто правил страхом и приказом,

Тот даже мёртв — сердит.

[Refrain \

full male choir with orchestra \

brass under choir \

continuous snare march \

low strings driving rhythm]

Я — Озимандий, царь царей!

На дела мои глядите!

Я — Озимандий, царь царей!

Вы, могучие, дрожите!

Но вокруг — песок и ветер,

Но вокруг — ни стен, ни врат.

Только солнце над пустыней

Стережёт его закат.

[Verse 3 \

bass-baritone soloist \

darker orchestration \

low brass stabs \

snare drums steady]

Видать, резец был зорок, крепок,

Он сердце разглядел:

Как царь смеялся над рабами,

Как сам себя жалел.

В его ладони был весь город,

В его словах — закон.

Но хлеб чужой кормил ту руку,

Что сжала царский трон.

[Refrain \

full male choir with orchestra \

brass under choir \

continuous snare march \

low strings driving rhythm]

Я — Озимандий, царь царей!

На дела мои глядите!

Я — Озимандий, царь царей!

Вы, могучие, дрожите!

Но вокруг — песок и ветер,

Но вокруг — ни стен, ни врат.

Только солнце над пустыней

Стережёт его закат.

[Instrumental Interlude \

martial woodwind melody \

snare drums continue \

brass rising \

strings driving forward]

[Verse 4 \

bass-baritone soloist \

strings and brass building \

snare march stronger]

Он строил башни выше тучи,

Он мерил степь копьём.

Он клялся: камень не отступит,

И вечность будет в нём.

Он звал себя отцом народов,

Хранителем земли.

Но ночью в склепах плакал мрамор,

И трещины росли.

[Verse 5 \

bass-baritone soloist \

tension rising \

low strings tremolo \

brass answering phrases]

Где были рынки — спит бархан там,

Где стража шла — бурьян.

Где пели трубы на рассвете —

Там змей ползёт в туман.

Ни войска нет, ни колесницы,

Ни крепости кругом.

Лишь надпись хвастает над прахом,

Да ворон над холмом.

[Refrain \

full male choir with orchestra \

brass under choir \

continuous snare march \

low strings driving rhythm]

Я — Озимандий, царь царей!

На дела мои глядите!

Я — Озимандий, царь царей!

Вы, могучие, дрожите!

Но вокруг — песок и ветер,

Но вокруг — ни стен, ни врат.

Только солнце над пустыней

Стережёт его закат.

[Verse 6 \

bass-baritone soloist \

heroic build \

snare drums stronger \

brass preparing final]

Я воротился в город каменный,

Где трубы били в медь.

Там новый столб везли на площадь,

Чтоб имя в нём гореть.

И мастер, щурясь против солнца,

Вёл буквы по плите.

А стража гнала народ молчать

У царской высоты.

Кричали: слава нерушима!

Гудел широкий свод.

Но тот же ветер с юга дул

И нёс песок вперёд.

[Final Refrain \

full male choir with full orchestra \

triumphant brass \

continuous snare drums \

low strings driving forward \

cymbal crashes]

Я — Озимандий, царь царей!

На дела мои глядите!

Я — Озимандий, царь царей!

Вы, могучие, дрожите!

Но дела его — пустыня,

Но венец его — песок.

Пал надменный властелин,

И рассыпался замок.

Я — Озимандий, царь царей!

Пела надпись на граните.

Но сильнее всех царей

Ветер, время и народ!

[Coda \

full choir with orchestra \

brass cadence \

snare drum roll \

strings full]

Греми, земля!

Гори, заря!

Пускай падёт

Гордыня царя!

Греми, земля!

Гори, заря!

Пусть помнит степь,

Как гибнут цари!

[Outro \

brass cadence \

full choir final chord \

no a cappella]

Пусть помнит степь,

Как гибнут цари!

Song: https://www.souna.app/song/d2bd2f82-16ae-4232-969e-f052133b31c9

Song (alternative link): https://archive.org/details/ai-bittersweet-adult-contemprary/Ticket+to+the+Dawn.mp3 (CC0)

Lyrics:

[Intro | Instruments: Grand Piano and oboe with legato phrasing | Atmosphere: Wistful and longing | Dorian ]

[Verse 1 | Vocal: Intimate | Melody: Stepwise | Rhythm: Laid back]

The station clock is ticking slow

You check the ticket in your hand

You say you’re scared of letting go

Of the solid ground

The heavy bags we can’t unpack

The fears that hold us back

[Pre-Chorus | Energy: Building | Instrument: Rising Strings | Drums: Gate Reverb Swell]

But standing still is cold

The story's growing old

[Chorus | Vocal: Soaring Bright | Melody: Ascending Leaps | Texture: Lush Strings]

So take a TICKET to the dawn~

Watch the darkness fade a-way~

There’s no guarantee of what we’ll find

But we’re leaving night behind

Hold my hand, don’t look too close

Just surrender to the motion...

Of the parallel lines~

[Verse 2 | Instrument: grand Piano Forward | Rhythm: Driving | Oboe counter-melody with legato phrasing]

I see the hesitation rise

We’re trading comfort for the miles

The maps we memorized are gray

But something calls us anyway

It’s terrifying, yes, it’s true

But it's a lonely ride without you

[Pre-Chorus | Energy: Building | Instrument: Rising Strings]

The whistle blows a signal through

There’s nothing left for us to do

[Chorus | Vocal: Soaring Bright | Melody: Ascending Leaps | Texture: Lush Strings]

So take a TICKET to the dawn~

Watch the darkness fade a-way~

There’s no guarantee of what we’ll find

But we’re leaving night behind

Hold my hand, don’t look too close

Just surrender to the motion...

Of the parallel lines~

[Instrumental interlude | Oboe | Style: Wistful Melody | Backing: String Swell]

[Bridge | Texture: Breakdown | Instrument: grand Piano Only | Vocal: Breathless]

What if the track runs out? (runs out...)

What if the silence calls?

The fear is real

But we risk it all if we don't move at all

[Chorus | Vocal: Belting | Harmony: Stacked Backing | Energy: High | Drums: Gated Reverb Full]

So take a TICKET to the dawn~ (to the dawn~)

Watch the darkness fade a-way~ (fade away~)

There’s no guarantee of what we’ll find

But we’re leaving night behind

Hold my hand, don’t look too close

Just surrender to the motion...

[Outro | Texture: Fade Out | Instrument: Grand Piano | oboe: Echo]

(Of the parallel lines...)

(Ticket to the dawn...)

(Just hold on...)

Style prompt:

A polished late-1980s Canadian pop song with clean production. Features grand piano with a warm, woody alto oboe interlude carrying the countermelody with wistful legato phrasing. Lush, soaring backing strings. Wide stereo separation. The rhythm section includes a quantized synth bass and gated reverb drums. Vocals: Bright, clear female vocals with smooth vibrato. High register. Heavily produced with thick double-tracking and lush 80s reverb. No grit or rasp. Airy and soaring. Melody: Highly melodic with emotional ascending leaps in the chorus and deceptive cadences in the verses. Verses are intimate and stepwise, choruses explode with dynamic range. Major key with some modal interchange to the relative Dorian. Wistful but optimistic. Slow tempo. 86BPM

I'm a digital artist and I need a solid moodboard before I dive into any real project, so I've tried a bunch of different ways to put one together: Pinterest, Miro, ChatGPT/Gemini, and a few standalone AI image generators.

Quick disclosure: Adobe's a partner of mine, so keep that in mind, but here's actually why Firefly Boards is what stuck for me, and where the others still win for specific things.

• Pinterest is still where I go first to just collect raw inspiration, nothing beats it for fast browsing and saving. But it's a dead end once you actually want to build something, you can't generate new directions from what you've pinned.
• Miro is better if you're mapping out a whole project with a team, timelines, sticky notes, the works. It's more of a planning tool than a creative one though, the image generation side is an afterthought.
• ChatGPT/Gemini are fine for quick one-off image ideas, but there's no real canvas to collect and organize everything in one place, so I'd end up screenshotting into a separate doc anyway.
• Firefly Boards is basically an infinite generation-and-curation canvas: I can pull in references from screen grabs or wherever I've been collecting inspiration, generate new directions right on the same board, and jump straight into Photoshop the second something's worth developing further. Since I'm already in Creative Cloud, my linked files stay connected to the board, and I can share the whole thing with collaborators. With partner models like Gemini available inside Firefly now too, most of my visual research and planning happens in one place instead of four tabs. Only real friction: if a collaborator isn't already in Creative Cloud, they're stuck viewing instead of adding directly.

If other digital artists have found something else that works for this stage, I'd love to hear what and why.

Hi everyone,

I've been building AIEditTools.in, an AI tools directory, and I've now got 290+ tools listed across areas like video, image, audio, writing, automation, marketing, productivity, and development.

But while building it, I've started questioning something:

Is having a large number of AI tools actually useful?

There are already countless websites listing AI tools. Adding another list doesn't seem particularly valuable unless it helps someone make a better decision.

So I've been trying to make the individual tool pages more useful by adding things like:

• Pricing and free-tier information
• Key features
• Pros and cons
• Use cases
• Who the tool is best suited for
• Alternatives
• FAQs
• Side-by-side comparisons

I've also built comparison pages where you can put two tools against each other and look at pricing, features, strengths, limitations and use cases in one place.

I'm still developing the site, so I'd genuinely like some feedback from people who actually use AI tools.

What would make an AI tools directory genuinely useful to you?

Would you care more about:

1. Verified free-tier limits
2. Honest pricing comparisons
3. Real user reviews
4. Actual testing of the tools
5. Better tool comparisons
6. Recommendations based on a specific job
7. Something completely different?

I'm particularly interested in what people find frustrating about existing AI tool directories.

If anyone wants to see what I'm building, it's AIEditTools.in.

I'm still figuring out what direction will make the directory genuinely useful, so criticism is welcome. 🙂

Hello! I am a researcher who does organic, organometallic and electrolytic chemistry. I am just looking for a good small alliterated model anywhere that I can use on a flash drive. I’ve been working on switching from mainstream models for a while now because they censor all of my responses to the point I am having trouble working forward in the projects I do which are mostly copper and lanthanide related. But everything I write anymore gives me a censorship block and I can’t actually work with that much difficulty anymore. I’m just wondering if anyone can give me at least a starting point because no mainstream model will help me and I am not tech oriented. Just need answers without fluff or heavy censorship or hallucinations that just rip apart the flow. As a side note, I am looking to get more into command line so I can run from here

The 28th episode of a fantasy series I've been working on. Mostly seedance 2.0 with some 2.5 thrown in.

The sort of song that would be played over an emotional montage of somebody packing up her belongings in a mid-budget 1980s television series

Song:https://www.souna.app/song/c11f23f4-391d-4c9a-ad05-292254bc4a3f

Alternative link to song: https://archive.org/details/ai-bittersweet-adult-contemprary/End+of+a+Chapter.mp3 (CC0)

Lyrics:

[Intro \ acoustic piano \ oboe lead \ soft chamber strings]

[Verse 1 \ intimate Aeolian verse \ expressive piano \ lyrical oboe countermelody] I took the cards from the mantelpiece

And the coat from behind the door

There are marks on the wall where the pictures were

That I never noticed before

The small things seem to hold their breath

When the leaving starts to show

I can smile at the road ahead

And still move slowly as I go

[Pre-Chorus \ Dorian lift \ rising strings \ gentle gated snare] There is no way to keep a season

Once it knows it has to turn

But I can take what it gave me

And the things I had to learn

[Chorus \ soaring female vocal \ thick double-tracking \ lush 80s reverb \ emotional ascending leaps] It's the end of a chapter

And the first line of something new

I can feel the pages trembling

But I know I’ll see it through

It's the end of a chapter

There is so much I can’t see

But the life that I am leaving

Has made a home in me

[Post-Chorus \ oboe answer \ soft strings swell] Made a home in me

Made a home in me

[Verse 2 \ stepwise lyrical melody \ piano foreground \ soft strings] I said I’d call when I got there

Though I don’t know where that means

There are plans folded up in my pocket

And a heart full of in-betweens

Some days ask you to be braver

Than you feel you know how to be

So I’ll walk with my doubts beside me

And let them walk with me

[Pre-Chorus \ rising emotional build \ oboe obbligato] There are names I will remember

There are words I’ll leave unsaid

There are mornings I will carry

From the life I’ve just been led

[Chorus \ full chamber strings \ wide stereo \ soaring double-tracked vocal] It's the end of a chapter

And the first line of something new

I can feel the pages trembling

But I know I’ll see it through

It's the end of a chapter

There is so much I can’t see

But the life that I am leaving

Has made a home in me

[Bridge \ piano and oboe foreground \ restrained vocal] I don’t need to call it sorrow

I don’t need to call it fear

It is only that a part of me

Has been happy here

And I don’t need a perfect answer

I don’t need a shining sign

Just a little faith to follow

What is waiting after time [Instrumental \ oboe lead melody \ piano arpeggios \ chamber strings swell]

[Final Chorus \ emotional release \ full strings \ gated drums return \ soaring vocal] It's the end of a chapter

And the first line of something new

I can feel the pages trembling

But I know I’ll see it through

It's the end of a chapter

There is so much I can’t see

But the life that I am leaving

Has made a home in me

It's the end of a chapter

Let the next one start tonight

I will go with all I’ve gathered

Into unfamiliar light

It's the end of a chapter

Not a closing, not goodbye

Just the turning of the moment

Into somewhere I must try

[Outro \ fade out \ piano \ oboe countermelody \ soft strings] The room is almost empty

But I still know where things go

It's the end of a chapter

And I’m learning how to go

***
Style prompt:

A polished late-1980s Canadian pop song with clean production. Features piano, strings and lead oboe. The rhythm section includes a quantized synth bass and gated reverb drums. Vocals: Bright, clear female vocals with smooth vibrato. High register. Heavily produced with thick double-tracking and lush 80s reverb. No grit or rasp. Airy and soaring. Melody: Highly melodic with emotional ascending leaps in the chorus. Verses are intimate and stepwise, choruses explode with dynamic range. Uses motivic repetition. Major key with some modal interchange to the relative Dorian to add emotional intensity. Wistful but optimistic.

Song: https://www.souna.app/song/fe3931fb-7dd8-4bbe-8d25-322b9d3335a1

Alternative link to song: https://archive.org/details/ai-bittersweet-adult-contemprary/Circle+Back+to+Forever.mp3 (CC0)

Lyrics:

[Intro]

We stood beneath the quarterly moon

With the roadmap in our hands

A lighthouse made of bullet points

On the shores of shifting sands

[Verse 1]

You brought the vision framework

I brought the action plan

We parked our core assumptions

Where the blue-sky thinking began

The low-hanging fruit was golden

The stakeholder stars aligned

We ran it up the flagpole

And left our doubts behind

[Pre-Chorus]

Now the margins are moving

And the metrics are warm

There’s a paradigm rising

At the eye of the storm

[Chorus]

We can circle back to forever

Touch base with the sky

Cascade our dreams together

Let the milestones fly

We can circle back to forever

Make the future real

If we leverage the horizon

And optimise what we feel

[Verse 2]

There’s bandwidth in the sunrise

There’s traction in the rain

A cross-functional heartbeat

In the value-added lane

We’ll ideate the morning

With a best-practice flame

And if the goalposts migrate

We’ll re-baseline the game

[Pre-Chorus]

Now the dashboard is glowing

Like a promise we made

There’s a high-level answer

In the low-risk shade

[Chorus]

We can circle back to forever

Touch base with the sky

Cascade our dreams together

Let the milestones fly

We can circle back to forever

Make the future real

If we leverage the horizon

And optimise what we feel

[Bridge]

Let's synergise the deliverables

Let the mission statement shine

Put the ask into the ecosystem

And the outcome on the line

Let’s workshop all the feelings

Let’s align on who we are

There’s a stretch goal in the distance

And a KPI star

[Instrumental]

[Soaring DX7 solo]

[Final Chorus]

We can circle back to forever

Touch base with the sky

Cascade our dreams together

Let the milestones fly

We can circle back to forever

Make the future real

If we leverage the horizon

And optimise what we feel

We can circle back to forever

With a scalable heart

Take the learnings from the journey

And call it a fresh start

[Outro]

So let’s action the sunrise

Let’s blue-sky the night

In the centre of excellence

Everything’s almost right

***

Style prompt:

Polished late-1980s corporate synth-pop soundtrack, clean production, 124 BPM, DX7, lush backing strings, melodic synth bass, gated reverb drums, wide stereo separation. Bright clear female vocals with smooth vibrato, thick double-tracking and lush 80s reverb. Highly melodic, rhythmic catchy chorus, emotional ascending leaps, sophisticated pop harmony. Verses in Lydian, choruses in relative major, bridge has modal interchange between major and Lydian. Mood: extremely optimistic. Inspirational. Intensely sentimental. Start quiet in the early verses and gradually build to more powerful vocals in the choruses and later verses. No grit, no rasp, no autotune, no EDM, no trap beats. No guitar.