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Where do you stand on AI in music production? (self.musicproduction)
submitted 1 year ago by OneBlindMouse to c/[email protected]
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A conversation popped up on another platform about the role of AI in music production, generally as its used in the mastering process. Now I'm not sure how much AI that actually involves and see it more as a set of rules that will map your song or music to a contemporary 'good mix'... basically control the EQ, RMS peak and LUFS. Things like this are becoming more and more prominent on music histinf sites.

I do use AI in some processing as I use software like Steinberg's SpectraLayers to 'un-layer' and un-mix tonal qualities, and so on but I don't use it in mastering. I do that the old fashioned way.

Your thoughts..? Yay or nay..?

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[–] AMillionMonkeys 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I figured you'd be concerned about music generating AI.
Personally, I'm all for it. In the early days of image generation AI you'd see lots of wild abstract outputs from the intermediate layers/processes. If we can get music to sound like that I think it would be amazing.
The thing about algorithmically generated art is that it's basically a faucet - turn it on and get as much as you want. So there's a danger of oversaturation, but that's basically the case in a lot of genres of human-generated music already. It makes valuing art tricky.

[–] OneBlindMouse 2 points 1 year ago

The faucet (tap... I'm English) analogy is perfect and yeah... there are so many of us making music now that the arena is literally stuffed... maybe AI generated has a place..? I dunno. Not for me... yet.

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