Google Releases Magenta RealTime 2 Music AI With Free Apps and Plugins
Magenta RealTime 2 is Google's first open-weights live music model that runs locally, with free apps and plugins that let musicians use it in real time on Apple Silicon Macs.
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Google released Magenta RealTime 2 on June 4, 2026, a music generation AI available in two versions: the high-quality mrt2_base with 2.4 billion parameters and the fast mrt2_small with 230 million parameters. Both are optimized for Apple Silicon, with mrt2_small running in real time on M1 and later Macs. Free instrument apps and DAW plugins for macOS are also available.
Google released Magenta RealTime 2 on June 4, 2026, an open-weights music generation AI that runs locally. The model comes in two sizes: mrt2_base, a high-quality version with 2.4 billion parameters, and mrt2_small, a fast version with 230 million parameters. Both are optimized for Apple Silicon, and mrt2_small runs in real time on all Apple Silicon Macs with M1 chips or later. NVIDIA GPU support is available but not real-time.
Alongside the model, Google released free instrument apps and DAW plugins for macOS. The instrument app Jam lets users enter a genre description to start music playback and adjust pitch via keyboard, MacBook keyboard, or MIDI keyboard. The DAW plugin MRT2 integrates Magenta RealTime 2 into music production software. A demo video shows MRT2 linked with a gesture-input app, allowing music to be played through hand gestures. The models are distributed on Hugging Face, and code and documentation are on GitHub for anyone to develop apps.
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