finally a useful example of AI used for workflow automation

He automated all the boring parts of being a composer

Professional composer Joel Schwartz found many moments of friction in his workflow that could be optimized through coding utility scripts. Using a Python server he got REAPER talking to Google Drive, Dropbox, Frame.io and Nifty, greatly reducing the time and effort of updating the team documents while he can focus on writing music.
Even without a background in programming, Joel was able to make all this through AI and its been a massive improvement to his workflow.

thoughts?

 

AI mumbo-jumbo. Wherever a lazy human can use a machine, they do so; they keep ceding more and more power to machines. The next time the power goes out, these new "intellectual idiots"—who have, after all, surrendered the majority of their autonomy to machines—are going to look pretty foolish. Convenience breeds stupidity. Instead of dedicating his time intensively to music, he spends hours surfing the internet, burdening his brain with scripts and the like...! No thanks!

 

@PulseWave you didn't even bother to watch the video, did you? that makes you the lazy AI mumbo jumbo

 

This looks like the start of what I would call the best-use case of implementing AI in any creative workflow. To use it for the more-less boring and repetitive parts of productions. Like, if you need to change a single value or setting over 100 tracks, stuff in that direction.

We're still far from getting there, I haven't seen anyone make a capable enough agent that could do stuff like that. But eventually, we'll get there.

Don't mind @PulseWave, he's too busy keeping his post count up and replying to every single thread in existence to ever fully understand something, unless he used AI to summarize it.

 

If im using a script to handle managing files in google drive, dropbox etc, the power going out wouldn't matter if was the one doing it, or a machine lol.

 

I've been using ChatGPT recently to help create templates for sequencing my gear with Ableton and Bitwig, as well as figure out why my boiler is making weird noises. I like AI, it's helpful and reassuring. Till Judgement Day, obviously.

 

I don't watch videos, because I don't have the time for them and I don't want to burden my brain with them. However, I did read the text and translate it into my own language. As you may have gathered from my comment, I am no fan of the new AI!

 

then I'm afraid you probably should avoid threads in AI section of the forum here completely, since you don't seem to bother contributing anything meaningful anyway

 

I have actually written a great many posts on the subject of AI here, and I even used AI myself for several months. I think you are completely infatuated with AI; however, if one happens to hold a different opinion, one is met with baseless accusations—and essentially told to just get lost!

 

watch the video u dumbasses. he didn't program AI to do his job (composing) for him. He vibe-coded his way into making Reaper scripts. As far as I know, this is a perfectly valid use case for AI. He didn't just type a prompt that had music made for him.

 

When you see only half of the argument because the ones you disagree with are in your ignore list
Man, it's such a good feelin'

 

Upload your plugin inventory list for this. Anyway, it's obvious from even just the text under the video this is exactly the kind of thing it is about. It has nothing to do with actually writing and making music. Instead, you are using it like a free assistant to do administrative work. You know, like Michael Brauer, Jaycen Joshua, Serban, and any other engineers who have too much work for one person to actually do everything themselves. Eventually the little trend of bitching about anything AI related will end and the cute little terms like "slop" will become an instant boomer identification signal as much as when they post about their colostomy bags on Facebook.

I liked this recent video more:

 

if u aren't making tools/scripts/automation with AI ur not taking advantage of where we're at with everything. Its arguably the most valuable part of all all these LLMs and is rlly just following a lineage of using computers to automate computers so we can use computers more freely and intuitively.

 

The problem is you're still steering/prompting the AI it's like yeah ok, but it's still half the effort. You have to think project orientation and prompt the robot. They effectively act as your hand lol , in reaper the other day I Was testing applying a sidechain and let's just say grok got a little silly

literally this
being good at ai is using ai to automate and be recursive/meta with how you utilize

 

I seriously don't know what it means to be "meta".
I know what metadata means, meta-gaming too.
And methamphetamine, that one day that I went to... ahem...

 

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he might have his reasons, i personally think that using AI to write scripts which help 3 people to exchange midi documents over the internet could be a bit an overengineered solution.

then again ai might be a bit biased because as a user of max, i have OSC or http or js or shell commands basically built-in in my composition and editing tool.

 

and meta-llica.

 

that is exactly why you do not have time for other things.

 

Using AI to automate repetitive work is no different from using a washing machine instead of washing clothes by hand.

The washing machine doesn’t make you lazy so you can spend more time thinking about laundry. It removes the boring work so you can spend your time on something more valuable.

A composer automating uploads, file management and project updates isn’t giving up composing. He’s doing the opposite: he’s removing administrative work so he has more time to compose.

Tools don’t take away autonomy. They give you a choice about where to spend your time.

 

Reaper acts as a comprehensive Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, providing a bridge between AI agents and the REAPER DAW. It empowers AI to create fully mixed and mastered tracks, handling everything from MIDI composition and audio recording to mixing, automation, and mastering. This server facilitates advanced music production workflows by enabling AI-driven control over REAPER's extensive capabilities.

https://mcpmarket.com/server/reaper-2

 

Last edited: Sep 2, 2026 at 9:56 AM