In the 21st century the effects of Greek thought are still strongly evident in the belief that music influences the ethical life; in the idea that music can be explained in terms of some component such as number (that may itself be only a reflection of another, higher source); in the view that music has specific effects and functions that can be appropriately labelled; and in the recurrent observation that music is connected with human emotion. In every historical period there have been defectors from one or more of these views, and there are, of course, differences of emphasis.
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1. Log In To Discord
Access the Midjourney Bot through Discord via web browser, mobile app, or desktop app. Ensure you have a verified Discord account before joining the Midjourney Discord server.
Follow these guides to create or verify your Discord account:
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2. Subscribe to a Midjourney Plan
To start generating images with Midjourney, you’ll need to subscribe to a plan.
- Visit Midjourney.com/account.
- Sign in using your verified Discord account.
- Choose a subscription plan that suits your needs.
Go to Subscription Plans for information on pricing and the features available with each tier.
3. Join the Midjourney Server on Discord
To start interacting with the Midjourney Bot, join the Midjourney Server
- Open Discord and locate the server list on the left-hand sidebar.
- Press the + button at the bottom of the server list.
- In the pop-up window, click the Join a Server button.
- Paste or type the following URL: http://discord.gg/midjourney and press Join .
4. Go to any #General or #Newbie Channel
After joining the Midjourney server on Discord, you’ll see several channels listed in the sidebar.
On the Midjourney Server
Locate and select any channel labeled general-# or newbie-# . These channels are designed for beginners to start using the Midjourney bot. The Midjourney Bot will not generate images in other channels.
On Other Servers
You can generate images with the Midjourney Bot on any Discord server that has invited the Midjourney Bot. Look for instructions on your server on where to use the Bot.
5. Use the /imagine Command
About Discord Commands
Interact with the Midjourney Bot on Discord using a Command . Commands are used to create images, change default settings, monitor user info, and perform other helpful tasks. The /imagine command generates a unique image from a short text description (known as a Prompt ). Learn more about Prompts
How to Use /imagine
- Type ‘/imagine prompt:’ in the message field. You can also select the /imagine command from the list of available slash commands that pop up when you type ‘/’.
- Type a description of the image you want to create in the prompt field.
- Send your message. The Bot will interpret your text prompt and begin generating the images.
- Respect the Community Guidelines. Community guidelines apply wherever the Midjourney Bot is used.
6. Accept the Terms Of Service
Before generating any images, the Midjourney Bot will prompt you to accept the Terms Of Service. You must agree to these terms to proceed with image creation.
7. Image Generation Process
After submitting a text prompt, the Midjourney Bot processes your request, creating four unique image options within a minute. This process utilizes advanced Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), and each image generation counts towards the GPU time included with your Midjourney subscription. To monitor your available GPU time ( Fast Time Remaining ) use the /info command.
8. Select an Image or Create Variations
Once your initial image grid has been generated, two rows of buttons become available underneath your image grid.
U1 U2 U3 U4 Image Selection
In earlier versions of Midjourney, the U buttons were used for upscaling images. With the latest model, images are immediately generated at 1024 x 1024 pixels size. Now, the ‘U’ buttons help you separate out your chosen image from the grid, making it easier to download and giving you access to additional editing and generation tools.
Re-run or Re-roll a Job
The button re-runs a Job. In this case, it would re-run the original prompt producing a new grid of images.
V1 V2 V3 V4 Image Variation
The V buttons are used to create variations of the selected image. Each button generates a new image grid that maintains the general style and composition of the selected image.
9. Enhance or Modify Your Image
After singling out an image, an expanded set of options becomes available.
Vary (Strong) Vary (Subtle)
Create a stronger or subtle variation of your selected image, generating a new grid of four options.
Zoom Out 2x Zoom Out 1.5x Custom Zoom
Zoom Out of your image, extending the canvas its original boundaries without changing the content of the original image. The newly expanded canvas will be filled-in using guidance from the prompt and the original image.
⬅️ ➡️ ⬆️ ⬇️
The Pan buttons allow you to expand the canvas of an image in a chosen direction without changing the content of the original image. The newly expanded canvas will be filled in using guidance from the prompt and the original image.
❤️ Favorite
tag your best images to easily find them on the Midjourney website.
Open the image in your gallery on Midjourney.com
10. Save Your Image
Click on the image to open it to full size, and then right-click and choose Save image . On mobile, long-tap the image and then tap the download icon in the top right corner.
All images are immediately available to view on midjourney.com/imagine
Next Steps
Direct Messaging the Midjourney Bot
Are you having difficulty finding yourself while working with other users on the Midjourney server? You can interact with the Midjourney Bot one-on-one in a direct message. Images created within your direct messages are still subject to content and moderation rules and are visible on the Midjourney website.
Blend Your Own Images
Learn how to upload and blend your own images using the /blend command.
Midjourney Bot Assistance
Need help or have questions? Try these commands:
/help Displays useful information and tips about the Midjourney Bot.
/ask Provides answers to questions about the Midjourney Bot.
You can also visit the #member-support channel on the Midjourney Discord for additional assistance.
Recent News
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music, art concerned with combining vocal or instrumental sounds for beauty of form or emotional expression, usually according to cultural standards of rhythm, melody, and, in most Western music, harmony. Both the simple folk song and the complex electronic composition belong to the same activity, music. Both are humanly engineered; both are conceptual and auditory, and these factors have been present in music of all styles and in all periods of history, throughout the world.
Music is an art that, in one guise or another, permeates every human society. Modern music is heard in a bewildering profusion of styles, many of them contemporary, others engendered in past eras. Music is a protean art; it lends itself easily to alliances with words, as in song, and with physical movement, as in dance. Throughout history, music has been an important adjunct to ritual and drama and has been credited with the capacity to reflect and influence human emotion. Popular culture has consistently exploited these possibilities, most conspicuously today by means of radio, film, television, musical theatre, and the Internet. The implications of the uses of music in psychotherapy, geriatrics, and advertising testify to a faith in its power to affect human behaviour. Publications and recordings have effectively internationalized music in its most significant, as well as its most trivial, manifestations. Beyond all this, the teaching of music in primary and secondary schools has now attained virtually worldwide acceptance.
But the prevalence of music is nothing new, and its human importance has often been acknowledged. What seems curious is that, despite the universality of the art, no one until recent times has argued for its necessity. The ancient Greek philosopher Democritus explicitly denied any fundamental need for music: “For it was not necessity that separated it off, but it arose from the existing superfluity.” The view that music and the other arts are mere graces is still widespread, although the growth of psychological understanding of play and other symbolic activities has begun to weaken this tenacious belief.
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Historical conceptions
Music is everywhere to be heard. But what is music? Commentators have spoken of “the relationship of music to the human senses and intellect,” thus affirming a world of human discourse as the necessary setting for the art. A definition of music itself will take longer. As Aristotle said, “It is not easy to determine the nature of music or why anyone should have a knowledge of it.”
Early in the 20th century, it was regarded as a commonplace that a musical tone was characterized by the regularity of its vibrations; this uniformity gave it a fixed pitch and distinguished its sounds from “noise.” Although that view may have been supported by traditional music, by the latter half of the 20th century it was recognized as an unacceptable yardstick. Indeed, “noise” itself and silence became elements in composition, and random sounds were used (without prior knowledge of what they would be) by composers, such as the American John Cage, and others in works having aleatory (chance) or impromptu features. Tone, moreover, is only one component in music, others being rhythm, timbre (tone colour), and texture. Electronic machinery enabled some composers to create works in which the traditional role of the interpreter is abolished and to record, directly on tape or into a digital file, sounds that were formerly beyond human ability to produce, if not to imagine.
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Early Indian and Chinese conceptions
From historical accounts it is clear that the power to move people has always been attributed to music; its ecstatic possibilities have been recognized in all cultures and have usually been admitted in practice under particular conditions, sometimes stringent ones. In India, music has been put into the service of religion from earliest times; Vedic hymns stand at the beginning of the record. As the art developed over many centuries into a music of profound melodic and rhythmic intricacy, the discipline of a religious text or the guideline of a story determined the structure. In the 21st century the narrator remains central to the performance of much Indian traditional music, and the virtuosity of a skillful singer rivals that of the instrumentalists. There is very little concept of vocal or instrumental idiom in the Western sense. The vertical dimension of chord structure—that is, the effects created by sounding tones simultaneously—is not a part of South Asian classical music; the divisions of an octave (intervals) are more numerous than in Western music, and the melodic complexity of the music goes far beyond that of its Western counterpart. Moreover, an element of improvisation is retained that is vital to the success of a performance. The spontaneous imitation carried on between an instrumentalist and narrator, against the insistent rhythmic subtleties of the drums, can be a source of the greatest excitement, which in large measure is because of the faithful adherence to the rigid rules that govern the rendition of ragas—the ancient melodic patterns of Indian music.
Chinese music, like the music of India, has traditionally been an adjunct to ceremony or narrative. Confucius (551–479 bce ) assigned an important place to music in the service of a well-ordered moral universe. He saw music and government as reflecting one another and believed that only the superior man who can understand music is equipped to govern. Music, he thought, reveals character through the six emotions that it can portray: sorrow, satisfaction, joy, anger, piety, love. According to Confucius, great music is in harmony with the universe, restoring order to the physical world through that harmony. Music, as a true mirror of character, makes pretense or deception impossible.
