Guide · 2 min read
Creative partnership
Play Daydream as an instrument — set conditions, listen to what comes back, and respond.
Daydream generates continuously. You set a source, a prompt, and parameters, and audio comes back in real time. You respond by adjusting — moving a control, changing a word in the prompt, shifting the seed. That back-and-forth is the instrument.
Recording is just leaving a track armed while you play. You're not managing generations or waiting for results. You're performing, and the recording captures everything. Edit it down after.
- Fix a prompt, move the controls
- When a prompt is giving you the right direction, explore it by moving Structure and Strength live rather than changing the prompt. The character shifts continuously as you play.
- Fix the controls, change the prompt
- When the feel is right but you want to steer the content, adjust the prompt mid-performance. Small changes can shift the output significantly without losing what was working.
- Feed the output back in
- Use a recording from one pass as the source for the next. Each pass takes you further from the original material in ways that are hard to plan deliberately.