AI in music

[Al Krow]

1 hour ago, edstraker123 said:

Rick Beato dissing AI music is really getting on my nerves. In one interview he mentioned Spotify marking the tracks as AI so people could avoid listening to them which I find ludicrous. I subscribe to it to listen to good music, some of the non-AI tracks he recommends are woeful. 

 

I've no issue with full disclosure ai labelling whether it be "fully ai generated", "ai assisted" etc - I think folk should be allowed to choose to support/listen to what they want in the same way that "free range" eggs is a useful label?

 

But I agree that there is plenty of human slop out there! Would it be fair to say that 99.99% of original material uploaded could be regarded as derivative and uninteresting?

 

Most successful solo artists / songwriters are using session musicians to lay down the backing tracks. It seems to me that the latter could well be a first music casualty of war with the new tech (just as software engineers, audit juniors etc are finding in their fields of work). Where ai is going to struggle to compete is full band live performances with no backing tracks - and that is where I'm going to be focussing my live bass playing. If we end up including songs that have an ai imprint rather than purely covering other folk's back catalogue, I'm cool with that - the human interaction with an audience will remain intact.

 

Edited 6 hours ago by Al Krow

[TimR]

Geoffrey Hinton talks to Neil DeGrasse Tyson.

 

You may have difficulty sleeping after listing to this discussion. 

 

https://open.spotify.com/episode/30xO8jBd3jynb7mOAE1v0O?si=0-buIMDXTBanSOYeEMCL_w&context=spotify%3Ashow%3A1mNsuXfG95Lf76YQeVMuo1

 

[MacDaddy]

4 hours ago, Al Krow said:

 

I've no issue with full disclosure ai labelling whether it be "fully ai generated", "ai assisted" etc -

 

Full disclosure labelling. I like that!

 

So for example:

 

My Generation 

 - P. Townsend (didn't write the bass line)

 

Every breath you take 

 - G. Sumner (didn't write the guitar part)

 

Etc.

[Al Krow]

19 minutes ago, MacDaddy said:

 

Full disclosure labelling. I like that!

 

So for example:

 

My Generation 

 - P. Townsend (didn't write the bass line)

 

Every breath you take 

 - G. Sumner (didn't write the guitar part)

 

Etc.

 

Haha - now you might not think it misleading if your bandmates wrote their particular parts, but how about Elvis - didn't write any of his own stuff (co-authored a few)? Tbf he never claimed otherwise = full disclosure?

And apparently audiences weren't too fussed?! (See earlier comment about performer / audience interaction surviving AI).

 

Edited 1 hour ago by Al Krow

[edstraker123]

6 hours ago, Al Krow said:

how do you find the Pro version "Editor" for editing / changing parts of tracks you have already got that you're not 100% happy with?

There are 2 versions of the editor in the Pro model. They work in slightly different ways. I think it is o.k. but not brilliant. It's really useful in your lyrics section to mark things as intro, verse 1, bridge etc. as then it allows you to more easily make changes to the section you want. Alternatively just do a cover of the song and vary the style or audio percentage so it is regenerating something almost identical, as I find more issues with clipping etc. than producing something musically horrible. This is also useful to do when changing the lyrics if they haven't been performed in the way you want.

Definitely have a play with Personas if you want to produce an album with a consistent singer.