Originally Posted by Fdemetrio
Originally Posted by bennash
I don't use home studios and pay session players . So I'm not the down-fall of the music industry .

But your right, people using drum machines, pitch correction, samples of piano and bass, punching in, the whole nine, complaining about AI is hilarious.

It's all Ai in a sense. But most do it cause of convenience , and there really isn't a cost effective way to do it, without having a band, where the band all writes too!

It took work away from session players, made drummers seem to be in the way, producers, mastering plants, nobody cared itt was fun.

Suddenly ai offers replacement of THEM, and it's a tragedy.

As I said make great music, regardless how you do it. You better blow away the competition who can all get a decent song.

I've yet to hear a GREAT song from ai.

That's our job now

That really is all there is to A.I. It is convenient and it is super cheap. And I am not talking about music, I am talking about ALL A.I. in every place it is used. It is having a car instead of horse. It is living in a house instead of a cave. It is making demos for fun, or for purpose for FREE (essentially) rather than paying for gear (like Ben obviously does) or demo services like a lot of Nashville writers do, or session players, producers, engineers and world class gear and studios, like every major artist, label and publisher. Now the little guys and gals can skip paying these middle folks and just writer, make demos, and maybe still record a real album themselves or with some human help, but I am not sure that will be a thing much longer anyway. If you are using tech YOU prefer, and drawing a red line to attack or belittle those who use tech beyond YOUR red line, then you're really just too lazy to learn new stuff, or just a hypocrit that YOUR tech is okay, but everyone else's is bad. I wish I had a live band because that is the most fun you can have making music. But all my bandmates are literally dead or incapacitated and my chops post strokes just are no longer good to perform live or even for fun at my house with a garage band. I do want to find a guitarist to collab with because my hands just can't do it anymore, but at least Io can still play keys well enough to use a daw and write songs. A.I. have reignited the fun part of music creation, allowing me to actually finish hundreds of unfinished or outdated songs. I always thought one day I would revisit the old stuff, now I have a pathway to do so. I do wish I had more control because sometimes Suno nails what I want with shocking accuracy and sometimes it just will not even approximate what I want. I spent 3 days and 300 versions of the same song trying to get it even in the ballpark, and it just wouldn't do it. I uploaded different versions, different 2 minutes segments, more time, less time, I redid it with just piano and vocal, nothing worked. It isn't complex, but it just won't do it right. The song before literally got it on the second try. I am not super impressed with version 4. The vocals are slightly less computer sounding, but it also lost some dynamic range and the backing tracks lack flourishes that the previous version was actually good at adding. Like the took away from one part to boost the part they get the most criticism on. It is disappointing. I have an Udio account, but I haven't completed a single song there I was happy with. Anyone else have any luck with it?

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