Other Maghni AI by Crescendia

[lIlI]

It's fortunate a new team was willing to take over, or that would have been a verrry awkward announcement haha.

In a way, Maghni AI in its original form met the fate their maligned dissenters predicted: it died, and was abandoned. For some time now, its corpse has been Weekend At Bernie'd around by third-party developers who refused to let that unfortunate situation kill their dreams of releasing for a commercial engine. Time will tell if they're able to give Maghni AI a full resurrection.

also: wut

 

[Bookworm2]

I really hope so. Maghni is the only way that Big Al and Sweet Ann will get an update, and I NEED an update since they can't be bought anymore. Also, a Ruby update would be nice too.

 

[nene]

also: wut

This part was very surprising to me. I wonder how the process works without the full engine code in-hand...

Regardless, I hope everything works out for them. Even if, unfortunately, currently this is panning out similarly to a 'classic kickstarter story'.

It's good that there's so much passion in it though. This will very likely be a *very* different project than their prior idea, (which was very high-scope), but I wonder how it will develop anyway.

 

[kimiworld]

New news from Tart about the state of the project.

https://x.com/vocatart/status/1978212898234122284?t=BmGexOr-ViIWqHn7vsr7jg&s=19

Correct me if I am wrong, so based on what I know, somehow the previous developers who left the development of Maghni AI (perhaps including some major developers) have somehow bring along with them the entirety (or maybe a part of core functionalities that they developed) of the Maghni AI base code (perhaps due to disagreement of transferring ownership and so on), so the current team of five is working their best to reconstruct a stable replacement architecture (which includes engine stability, core functionality, and voice colors etc) for the all new Maghni AI.

If that is true, then no wonder the newest demo sounds a little bit different compared to the previous ones. I wish all the best for them to recover from the challenges that they are facing and could produce an entire newer, better, and more powerful version of Maghni AI. I personally believe that those who are persistent in continuing their projects despite their past difficulties or delays will eventually see through the end, although the result might be entirely different but certainly be even better than before.

 

[BANKARA_TEEvie]

despite maghni still being worked on and despite it being likely that it'll get finished at some point (and it's not at all a dig on the current team, very very proud of them for still working hard) it's hard not to feel stung knowing that something big has happened behind the scenes... like, it's a weird feeling with a very 'for fans by fans' project like this when we have "notable" figures from the community thrown into question because... well, how these trusted team members would let the remains of the project struggle with keeping it afloat, i guess.

i've been following maghni since the VERY very first announcement and specifically was just wanting to see everyone working hard on it succeed, and i do still really wish the best for everyone still working on it, but i really can't imagine the stress of trying to fulfil all of the expectations people had for launch when there seems to be a lot of things outside of direct control of the remaining members.

i will say though, when i first saw the tweet posted here, i thought 'oh, shit, it's completely over isn't it'... thank god

 

[Palamon]

i'm tired boss

 

[wrong_thyme]

i'm tired boss

same

i'm glad it's not COMPLETELY dead, but. damn, how hard could it have been to be more transparent about this while it was happening?

i wish the current team luck. everything is working against them atp, but i hope they succeed

 

[Blue Of Mind]

I'm genuinely not surprised this project has struggled to the point that the new dev team are almost about to discard the previous code and start again. I can still remember when Maghni was originally announced and almost everyone on here (including myself) gave the project a side-eye because of its already-lofty goals, knowing the previous track record we've seen with vocal synth fan projects. (Namely professional voicebanks going up in flames, but still).

 

[carmenxsleepy]

I stopped following Maghni for a while and seeing this pop up today sure was a shock.. I wonder how it got to this point since I remember all of the high hopes the community had from the announcement and stuff.. I wonder why so many things go wrong with Vocatone projects (Yohioloid being discontinued, the entirety of Oliver's development, etc)