Anderton

I guess what makes me uncomfortable is when machines do something "good enough" and the world accepts that, instead of going the extra mile for something exceptional that's crafted by humans. The only problem is that humans do that as well. It's not just a machine thing. My main concern is that AI will be music on the web x 1,000,000 - a flood of so much crap it's hard to isolate the exceptional stuff, whether made by machines or humans.

Well, I would consider it transformative, regardless of whether it was done by a human, or a human inputting instructions into an AI engine. But I'm not a copyright lawyer or judge.

It depends...a lot hinges on whether the work is judged as transformative. https://blogs.uoregon.edu/appropriationartfieldguide/warhol/ https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/may/18/andy-warhol-copyright-prince-paintings-lawsuit https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/lawandarts/announcement/view/112 It also seems a lot depends on whether someone actually wants to sue or not.

I guess the main difference is he wrote the paragraphs, he didn't scrape articles written by others on the internet. I do the same thing, though...it's called "editing," because my first drafts suck

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Sony's Cinescore program could do a basic version of that, and this was several years ago. I'm not sure why it was taken off the market. Best case scenario in your case is the "drum machine scenario." When drum machines came out, I was still a union guy doing studio work. The common wisdom was that drummers would no longer be needed, but it turned out that drummers made the best drum machine programmers, by far. So they still ended up being hired.

I don't recall nearly as much pushback on synthesizers as there was on samplers. The early samplers were primitive enough one could make an argument they weren't a threat to musicians, but that sure has changed. Still, it's kind of a mixed bag. It seems the ongoing trend is all about maximizing profits. Consider TV variety shows, which used to have bands. Eventually they probably would have been downsized to a dude with an arranger keyboard Or a music library. I think this is all about the ongoing devaluation of music. As tools came along that required less and less skill to create "the look and feel of music," I think that contributed to the perception music wasn't really a skill that was worthy of reward. Well, unless you're Beyonce.

+1 on RBass. This probably wouldn't apply to you, but for my more rock-oriented mixes, I make sure the bass has enough high frequencies. There's some kind of psycho-acoustic phenomenon where the ear fills in the lower frequencies based on the cues it's getting from the higher ones. It won't mean you have a warm bass at all levels, but you will have a bass that people can hear over compromised systems like computer speakers. Mixing in a waveform an octave higher with the bass you already have, even at a low level, may help.

I'm the same way. I don't store passwords in browsers. I have them stored in an encrypted PDF file when I need to look them up. Another option is to simply "forget" your password often. Then you have to create a new one, and make sure you don't store it.

Reminds of when samplers came out, and a union guy said to me they were "going to put musicians out of business." To which my reply was "who do you think plays these things - accountants"? But I think the situation is different here. You won't be paid to produce music for clients. The video director or some video grunt will just type in "something like a Beach Boys song that's uptempo and peppy for a commercial about deodorant, using guitar, bass and drums," and 30 seconds later they have something that's "good enough." The pursuit of excellence seems to have been overtaken by the pursuit of "good enough."

Cool! Nobody has to work! Let's all go to the beach and eat sand. 🤣

Well, it has the "look and feel" of music, thanks to incorporating the cliches that people associate with music. I've listened to a lot of Suno-created music, and frankly, except for novelty ones there's nothing so far I would play a second time. The biggest giveaway to me is the word salad lyrics that just string together related cliches and phrases. Will it put people out of work? Sure, non-musicians won't have to hire someone to do generic soundtracks for videos where frankly, the generic quality of AI is a benefit. It won't distract from the visuals. And I'm sure there will be plenty of AI pop music that achieves some degree of success. I just don't see AI producing material as personal as, say, Taylor Swift or as sweeping in scope as Peter Gabriel. Of course, at some point it will have scraped enough of Taylor Swift's catalog to create Taylor Swift-type songs. Will they ring true? I don't know at what point the technology has to become so advanced that it can have the same feelings as Taylor Swift or Peter Gabriel. The only precedent I can think of prior to AI was the recognition that Bach's music was highly mathematical (even fractal-like) in nature. People thought that by feeding enough Bach raw material into a computer, it would be able to produce Bach pieces. And it did, sort of - again, the "look and feel" of Bach. But all the pieces lacked the spark of the occasional surprise, the unanticipated solo instrument, etc. We'll see how it all turns out. It's pretty obvious people will eat fake food, listen to fake news, create fake bodies through surgery, accept lies as real if it fits what they want to believe, create fake demand through marketing, etc. Will they accept fake art? Of course they will. The question is whether that also means that they won't accept real art, because fake art becomes the norm...like kids learning how to sing who think hard pitch correction is normal, and do that with their voices.

I love these kinds of threads. Saves me having to go through 4,544,682 videos trying to find the nuggets.

Let's face it...no matter how screwed up the music industry is, it doesn't have to mess with how much fun we have making music!

Again, no story. Just a word salad of cliches. Oh well. Well, thanks for trying...

Clark Kent's cousin? That would explain why the name Superspeed USB was chosen.

What's your sign? Mine is Stereo, with Dolby rising and Moon over Miami.

Or in the case of the OP, humor

Maybe old habits die hard for people who used to write letters...I have a sig that includes my first name, so people don't confuse me with Sophie Anderton 🤣

I keep thinking I wandered into a Borat sketch by mistake, but here's the source. Authorities in Russia’s republic of Chechnya have imposed limits on music tempos to abide by strict cultural norms in the deeply conservative Muslim-majority region. “From now on all musical, vocal and choreographic works should correspond to a tempo of 80 to 116 beats per minute,” Chechnya’s Culture Ministry said in a statement earlier this week. The new tempo standard, which is relatively slow in the context of popular music, was announced following Chechen Culture Minister Musa Dadayev’s meeting with local state and municipal artists. Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov had instructed Dadayev to make Chechen music “conform to the Chechen mentality,” according to the statement. “Borrowing musical culture from other peoples is inadmissible,” Dadayev said. Local artists were ordered to “rewrite” their music by June 1 to accommodate the changes. “Otherwise, they would not be allowed for public performance,” the Culture Ministry wrote on the messaging app Telegram. I guess the upside is a sales opportunity for companies that make time-stretching plugins!

Yes, I've played around with that. It has a sort of "harpsichord" vibe, but sometimes it's a little overbearing for guitar I've even messed around with a virtual 18-string guitar, with octave-lower and octave-higher strings. It's not real useful, but it's fun

6 to 12 String Converter.multipreset This is for my Friday, April 26 blog post. I've alerted PreSonus to the fact that it wasn't connected to the text, but until they fix it...here it is.

Well, my opinion is that as Ableton Live was a different take on the traditional DAW, Bitwig is a different take as well. With the latest update, it strikes me more like a modular synthesizer than a DAW. That's one reason I'm interested in the common file format with Studio One. In theory (there are still some incompatibilities to work out), I can load a Studio One song into Bitwig, warp it, and send it back again. It's similar to how I use FL Studio as a plugin within Studio One so it's easier to do beats in SO. I miss ReWire, though. Ableton Live and Studio One were a marriage made in Heaven.

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But...but...to me, the fun part of music is creating a song, coming up with a melody line, and seeking that elusive inspiration. The analogy I'd use is a frozen dinner vs. cooking from scratch. You'll get a head start with the frozen dinner and end up with something to eat, but doing it from scratch is an experience. Putting a frozen dinner in the microwave is not. This is not to say AI is bad, end of the world, etc. etc. I've already used it to generate two book covers (but a third it was incapable of doing - you pick your battles). It could save me hours doing insipid musically acceptable background music for videos. But to think of it as a way to come up with creative ideas that I can just put in the metaphorical microwave - no thanks. Half of the fun of going into the studio is trying out different ideas to see what works. A machine trying out different ideas takes my pleasure away.