In my day to day existence I'm a professional troubleshooter, and when it comes to sound I'm a semipro troubleshooter. I fix shit and people pay me for it. And when it comes to everything there's plenty of stuff to fix.
What's the point of creating anything if AI does it for you, where's the creativity in phrasing a prompt?
My musical response and feelings about the future if AI is allowed to proliferate. Of course I've written as well as played everything you hear without help of "outside sources". https://whyp.it/tracks/323003/the-singularity-suite
My opinion is that, in music, AI is for those who don't know how to do otherwise. But if you "ask" AI to write a song don't pretend you wrote it. I am a MUSICIAN. I play (guitar) compose, arrange, record, mix and master my own music (and others too). I also teach guitar and music. Does AI bother me? Not the least. Is a tool in some"one" (or "it") else hand. You can't do it but want it nevertheless? Ask AI to do it for you. Do I use AI? Well, the closest to that is when I use MIDI and Superior Drummer to create a drums track or Kontakt to do a Cello line. It is not me playing but, at least, I composed the parts. Final thought: As someone else said here before me, if the light goes out and the whole digital world collapses I will still be making music, same as I was when I started over 50 years ago.
I'm a sound designer, and I'm already glad there's a DAW where you can save your created presets. The DAW was already a revolutionary, or rather, evolutionary invention. Do I need AI now? No! I think manufacturers will have to figure out where to find the markets to generate revenue in the future. As always, sales are heavily psychological; the name "artificial intelligence" is more like "artificial stupidity." The only truly intelligent person is the programmer who programs the AI. Since consumers' money is dwindling due to various problems, subscription models or rent-to-own options will become prevalent. Teams like R2R and their cracked products will only increase in number during these economically challenging times. AI will take work off their hands, and they will become a little more enslaved by technology again. Technology should serve you, not enslave you. It's clear that everything will be monetized. And don't forget all the criminals who want to steal your hardware to get their hands on some cash. Taxes will rise, food will become more expensive, and this will also lead to relief if AI can replace your job.
Yes, AI will, already does, excel at technical issues, only need to 'hear' that, but it will never grasp the aesthetic, that needs 'listening' to. If AI ever writes, er, 'makes up,' great music i would want to hear it, it's only the music that matters to me, not the genre or how it was produced. It's no ones bizness how people choose to make music, AI is just another laymens tool, good luck to all who use it, but you won't be writing hits with it, otherwise Joe Public wouldn't have access to it. Each to his own, live and let live.
What are you? The first thing came to my mind is that I am an idiot sandwich. Why? Every time I used AI for generating songs, my ear suddenly got muffled like two pieces of bread pressing on my ears, at the back of my head I heard a voice like Gordon Ramsay screaming "What are you?" and he's constantly forcing me to say I am an idiot sandwich.
Having thought more on this, does AI have a love for it's craft? Or is everything just a technical exercise?
In truth and worth I'm no more or less of value to the Universe than the smallest or largest living thing, but as I continue to observe humanity, I can't help wondering if I might be less valuable, or if I have any value at all, although I do love my wife, my cats, my reptiles, and music.
I personally don't consider these tools as AI. That kind of pattern recognition has been around for ages now. Just take those guitar to midi contraptions, as far as I remember the earliest are from the late 80ies? Same with cleaning, restoration or "intelligent" gating. Not everything that has an algorithm and more than half a page of code is AI. They put an AI label on everything because buzzword. But sometimes the AI is barely more than several dozens if-then statements. To me AI is what you wrote in the paragraph above. Where you have a big-data-blackbox, can't change anything and have to live with the result. And that is why (what i consider as) AI is so useless to me. Like all those AI written Youtube scripts, even when spoken by a human all sound so stupid with hundreds of those cringe comparisions and other oddities. And creators can't prompt around that. Because there is no intelligence behind it and there is a real possibility that it never will.
I think that's possibly one of the greatest, most observational quotes I've ever read on here. Ultimately that's all we are! We are human beings, living human lives, doing human things. Music is a funny motivator. More often than not it motivates dreams of fame or success or money. Actually, the best of the best don't dream of any of that. They simply express eloquently, in words and music our experience as human beings living a life.
just want keep the following but after reading yours: "then you're an artist, no metter how it results" ...Because being just one of many (keyword: what are you really?) is, in my opinion, both a blessing and a curse, because REALLY: only professionals or those who work in what they truly are are likely to be. What's enviable, but rather a curse, is that they usually lack the time to creatively explore a wide range of interests. I don't see it quite as narrowly as figend, but I do differentiate a bit between two types: the creatives and artists... and perhaps solid, practical thinkers (e.g., "I am a seasoned pro audio engineer"). If you find these three types too long-winded... I'm sure most people here could answer with at least four-eight things they do without posting them. This point me to the hamonized round end: Finally, the difference between you all here and me: you're more artists and I am fantastic *g* A little later: I forgot a fourth type: the innovative ones, that's idiots or work for Apple
Many folks who produce would have muuuuuch easier time using an analog console.. Just route it out, set up parallel busses and slam and match and balance things up, set a master comp like SSL G running and mix into it, but here we are , tons of ideas go down the drain when the other part of the brain kicks in...the part that organises the room, makes things tight for survival, which music is never based on. I get the guy running Suno etc., Sounds put together does not mean you can call it music, knowing how to play an instrument does not mean you can channel it and make it...AND, pulling plugins up does not mean you can mix it, let alone anything else, yet everything is based on being up to date which musicians are never...UP TO DATE, they have beaten up gutar or 2-3 of them for 20 years and they know them, while we spread all of that to 50 synths and 20 master comps i mean whatever, this is a computer forum, not a music forum and just doing things for the status is crazy ngl, i dont care how much time i played guitar or produced, whatever, i dont call myself anything untill it makes a needle move and all the files people call their "work" are nothing to me, self proclaimed artists. Batter your head, that is how it works, dont call yourself something, someone else has to call you something first, but not people from this forum, here everyone wants the praise too. i would aslo make NON_GUI plug versions mandatory, i kid you not, just basic metering, if you multiply hours and minutes spent in vain across the globe focusing on the eye organ and not the hearing... Last edited: Apr 4, 2026 at 6:34 PM
I am what I am. I want my music to sound like I want it. So I do all and everything that is needed to come to that endpoint. If I have to build a new computer to get things done I do that too. I clean my studio by myself. I make the coffee that I drink. AI? Too much noise and too much dumb-blabbering. Time will tell. I Use it if I feel so, otherwise I ignore it. And yes, it's useful in a lot of cases. Remixing/remastering for instance. And where to get a gospel choir that sind my lyrics in my arrangement? So ... I am a musician, I move warm air, I am an illusionist, I pretend. And I exploit anything what seems to be useful.
