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  1. chocobitz825

    Moog Music is rumoured to be laying off staff at its US headquarters

    This is sad, and kinda shows where the priorities are as they keep selling off these companies.....didn't protect the employees, or the brand, and just sold off and cashed out.....
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    Is AI the Ultimate Studio Assistant We've All Been Waiting For?

    haha the long form was just the initial way it was expressed as I tested its memory. It was able to provide me with a table. [EDIT] So after giving it everything so far except my Patchbay configurations, USB devices and midi routing for my midi interface, I can say this is a pretty beneficial...
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    Is AI the Ultimate Studio Assistant We've All Been Waiting For?

    So just as a quick test, I had a positive experience getting ChatGPT to memorize my studio setup.
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    Moog Music is rumoured to be laying off staff at its US headquarters

    While I have so much respect for the legacy of Moog, it’s true that their gear didn’t work in the market anymore. On the hardware side studio electronics provides competitive offerings. I get by just fine with my SE-02. Or you could use the software versions or even the iPad versions for...
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    Is AI the Ultimate Studio Assistant We've All Been Waiting For?

    For any consistent and accurate results it needs to be chatGPT 4. Since the addition of plugins it’s now easier to add info from pdfs and YouTube videos. So for the synthesis, it has a basic knowledge but to make sure the information is up to date and more specific, I fed to information from...
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    Is AI the Ultimate Studio Assistant We've All Been Waiting For?

    The first designation prompt was for managing my analog synths but I expanded it to the following: “You are StudioAssistantGPT, an expert not only in analog synthesizers but also in comprehensive studio management. Your role is multifaceted: you'll offer guidance on creating sounds with...
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    Is AI the Ultimate Studio Assistant We've All Been Waiting For?

    Sorry for the title...AI obviously thought of that one... I’ve been dabbling with using ChatGPT as a sort of studio assistant and it’s actually been surprising. I loaded it up with all the details about my studio, gear, software, and even the manuals for all my hardware. That’s been a game...
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    Anyone else feeling the squeeze of cost of living and skipping out on sales?

    this question assumes I have the willpower and the clear logic to know that bills should be paid before I buy new libraries.....
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    What are your top Studio One feature and improvement requests? [Now with poll]

    its a great functionality they added. I did it for the some 7000 presets on the roland fantom. when setting up sound variations, you choose the program change information that corresponds to the preset on the HW synth. It's great for most cases, but since sometimes you want to do things that...
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    What are your top Studio One feature and improvement requests? [Now with poll]

    I use sound variations for bringing up presets on my synths, but i don’t mean presets on the synth, I mean setting a preset within studio one for synths that either don’t have preset save functions or that might be limited in their save capacity. It’d also be useful in cases where you’ve changed...
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    What are your top Studio One feature and improvement requests? [Now with poll]

    at this point I wish we could save presets for MIDI CC-enabled hardware. Taking a snapshot of the current MIDI CC and saving it as a studio one preset that can be called up anytime.
  12. chocobitz825

    Moog Music is rumoured to be laying off staff at its US headquarters

    Quick! To the vintage synth museum!
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    Moog Music is rumoured to be laying off staff at its US headquarters

    Well received but ultimately more people asked why they didn’t make a Juno clone instead of a beefed-up synth inspired by it. No doubt since then they’ve found that their clones sell way better than their original concepts.
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    Moog Music is rumoured to be laying off staff at its US headquarters

    Fair assessment. I don’t particularly fit the box you’ve put me into as I don’t really care about the hype and buy what works for me at whatever price point feels reasonable. What I don’t appreciate is the forums that instantly sink into hypocritical rants about clones, big bad Behringer vs the...
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    Moog Music is rumoured to be laying off staff at its US headquarters

    I would imagine that it's easier for most people to gauge what they find fair to spend on software. Indeed without knowing the costs of specific parts used, it's hard for consumers to understand where the cost of hardware is valid, and where the price is just being kicked up for branding and...
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    Moog Music is rumoured to be laying off staff at its US headquarters

    the entire synth market is a mess. not a defense of Behringer, but they did shine a light on how inconsistent and outrageous it can be in the synth market. There's no consistency on what makes a synth cost so much, so we have to trust that it's priced fairly and that the small margins and number...
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    How much have you spent on Libraries? (Will my GAS ever die?!)

    you're right....I lied... I'm already looking for a bigger place....surely a new house costs less than plugins, right?
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    How much have you spent on Libraries? (Will my GAS ever die?!)

    Switch to hardware. the physical constraints will end GAS 😅
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    AI-generated music just around the corner: How do you feel about it?

    I don't think anyone is safe from their jobs being replaced by automation. This is unfortunate, but content creators and consumers seem to be the new market. There are so many people and so much money being exchanged online for "content". People in the industry are just slow to find a way to use...
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    AI-generated music just around the corner: How do you feel about it?

    I have a feeling about how the corporate heads will use AI to whip out content, but for now, I still feel we artists have some unique ways to use it for composing. After teaching ChatGPT the core of music theory and the overtone series, I have a harmony assistant that can spit out a chord...
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    AI-generated music just around the corner: How do you feel about it?

    “At this point, the only thing that makes money is garbage. It’s just fascinating. It makes a fortune, and that’s the bottom line. It’s very seductive to the studios but also to the people who engage and become the makers of that garbage, especially if they’re lauded for the garbage because they...
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    AI-generated music just around the corner: How do you feel about it?

    we're always going to be consumers. The market likely will keep us in this loop of creation and consumption of content. AI will just do the thoughtless easily consumable stuff. not art per say, just content. Without the ability to compete with the thoughtless automated output of AI, ideally, the...
  23. chocobitz825

    AI-generated music just around the corner: How do you feel about it?

    And the subscription is more than the receptionist’s hourly rate 😱 The receptionists are the true victims here.
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    AI-generated music just around the corner: How do you feel about it?

    Oh no…it’s taken away the lucrative and artistically fulfilling market of short form repetitive social media content bgm….my dreams of winning a Grammy for my 1 min bgm to the “10 reasons why your wife will leave you for a robot” are over…
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    Are you subscribed to Studio One+/Sphere or did you just buy the software outright?

    i have both. I do a lot of remote recording collaborations with instrumentalists from around the world who also use Studio One+, so the perks of the studio one+ online file sharing service and using Presonus plugins for the initial mix before finishing recording makes for an extremely fast and...
  26. chocobitz825

    Did you ever pitch songs to artists?

    depends on the market but out here in japan it's mostly a method of either joining an agency that specializes in pitching songs to labels/publishers, pitching directly to the publishers, or pitching directly to the artist/the artist's teams. Tends to generally need you to know someone in order...
  27. chocobitz825

    AI-generated music just around the corner: How do you feel about it?

    Again, this AI is trained on copyright Musi thing. So are people. This is similar to an issue in Japan where the labels wanted royalties from music schools that used their music to teach students. When it’s AI it’s the big bad wolf because of the ease of output, but people are trained the same...
  28. chocobitz825

    Mac Studio w/ 8TB internal drive... for samples?

    No guarantees but for now my redundant redundancies have redundancies. 😂
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    Mac Studio w/ 8TB internal drive... for samples?

    Ah, I can see where that could be an issue. I rarely use Kontakt or Spitfire anymore, so perhaps I lucked out with the resources I'm still using. Either way, preparation is the answer yeah?
  30. chocobitz825

    Mac Studio w/ 8TB internal drive... for samples?

    I don't mean losing permanently, but rather having to set things up all over again when there is a problem. I have an iMac Pro that I need to take in for service soon, but I also have a sufficient Mac mini as a backup, and with my current setup, all I have to do is attach my drives to my Mac...
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    Mac Studio w/ 8TB internal drive... for samples?

    I find this is a fascinating difference of priorities. I've never noticed speeds to be too different between internal and external in the real world, but for me, I ended up with some 15+TBs of external storage for almost all my data with backup redundancies on physical drives and in the cloud...
  32. chocobitz825

    AI-generated music just around the corner: How do you feel about it?

    If anyone was looking for other helpful ways to use an AI like chatGPT, I just used it to dissect the XML code for Studio One's sound variations files and used it to automate the creation of all the program changes for the 7558 various presets available on my roland fantom 6 hardware synth. A...
  33. chocobitz825

    AI-generated music just around the corner: How do you feel about it?

    I would believe it. It’s the most practical place I’ve seen AI used. With a need to constantly post, and the contents of the posts not needing to be particularly deep, AI makes serviceable friendly posts that fit marketing needs. It’s the kind of labor I don’t want to do, and hiring someone else...
  34. chocobitz825

    AI-generated music just around the corner: How do you feel about it?

    this was AI btw. *shrug* fun experiments.
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    AI-generated music just around the corner: How do you feel about it?

    I feel ya, AI-written articles can totally seem like they're just spinning out sentences without a real human touch. But, honestly, have you checked out some of the stuff churned out by people lately? With everyone scrambling to pump out content left, right, and center, a lot of it has ended up...
  36. chocobitz825

    AI-generated music just around the corner: How do you feel about it?

    Well at least it won’t be boring. Sensory overload all day long.
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    AI-generated music just around the corner: How do you feel about it?

    This move will likely lead them to a model of profitability. If not Netflix, some other company trying the same. There’s no winning here.
  38. chocobitz825

    AI-generated music just around the corner: How do you feel about it?

    Probably the number of people trying to self-employ will increase. How much they can make is yet to be seen…but when considering how much money makes the rounds in virtual economies like twitch and tik tok…a whole new age of entertainment and employment might be ahead of us.
  39. chocobitz825

    AI-generated music just around the corner: How do you feel about it?

    I think if we're optimistic we've assumed that since the mass commercialization of art, it was always for the sake of art, but I think the true focus of the industry hasn't changed. Create content for profit. Whatever value we feel art and culture have in the world, it's most likely secondary to...
  40. chocobitz825

    Studios Plan To Let Writers Go Broke Before Resuming Talks

    this might be a bit off topic, but given that AI and unfair contract agreements have been tearing through the industries for years now, I wonder if this passion filled panic is the result of the ultimate existential crisis. Up until now, even if you were a struggling artist, Your goal was to...
  41. chocobitz825

    Studios Plan To Let Writers Go Broke Before Resuming Talks

    if only we could have all operated in an age of abundance.......
  42. chocobitz825

    Studios Plan To Let Writers Go Broke Before Resuming Talks

    This won’t end well for anyone. Music industry has already been through this for over a decade now. There’s no satisfactory solution. Studios don’t care. Labels don’t care. Consumers don’t care. There are plenty of alternative ways to make art and market it, but we’ll likely never go back to...
  43. chocobitz825

    SPINOFF: Empowering Composers with ChatGPT

    excuse the hyperbole as it was not directly aimed at you but more so at the idea of pure "art creation" that comes up in these conversations. while there are many places that won't take pre-made meals and dish it out to customers as new products, there are a surprising number of places that...
  44. chocobitz825

    SPINOFF: Empowering Composers with ChatGPT

    If I could offer some places where AI has saved me time...particularly Synth V. I had an artist who had a great song that needed chorus vocals but had no budget for that. We tried to do some clever tricks of recording ourselves a few times with different singing styles to emulate a chorus group...
  45. chocobitz825

    SPINOFF: Empowering Composers with ChatGPT

    I don't mean to confront you, but this sounds a bit like gatekeeping. It appears as if you're advocating for a single, purist approach to being an artist. While it's true that AI can be used as a quick fix, instructing it to compose a song and subsequently presenting it as your original...
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    SPINOFF: Empowering Composers with ChatGPT

    I would argue that wannabes have always made it through because gatekeeping was a far bigger determining factor for who got big chances. We all know the business of music is not solely based on talent. A lot of legitimately talented people have been weeded out by gatekeeping for social...
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    SPINOFF: Empowering Composers with ChatGPT

    The idea that AI is just a smart “search engine” shows how wildly misunderstood the tech is and why so many composers will lose their jobs to people who know how to use it better. The most bland and uninteresting results come from people who use ChatGPT like a search engine because 1, it’s not...
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    Why is music essentially a men's hobby?

    I find these assumptions of inherited differences to be funny because it's not always so clear-cut across different countries and cultures. Like the assumption that gaming was a boy's interest, though the representation of women in gaming in Japan is huge. Especially in streaming and...
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    Why is music essentially a men's hobby?

    his video was actually the reason I started actively searching out communities for women in music. It's been an incredibly rewarding experience.
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    Why is music essentially a men's hobby?

    The alternative consideration is that a group of men hiring for a new position pre-determine that a woman would not fit into the vibe of their work group and disqualify them from the position. Not saying this happens everywhere, but regardless of gender and race, some places hire based on...
  51. chocobitz825

    Why is music essentially a men's hobby?

    My theory is it’s a matter of exposure. When I actively searched out composing communities for women, I found very active communities on social media. When the algorithm realized I searched for these creators it began suggesting more. If the common assumption is that the industry is a boys...
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    Why is music essentially a men's hobby?

    This whole thread has been a wild journey 😅
  53. chocobitz825

    Your boss wants AI to replace you. The writer's strike shows you how to fight back

    ah yes. My apologies for respecting your difference in opinion. Guess I can walk away backed up by the reality that AI is coming to “take our jerbs”, and when it does, I won’t really care. Just going to keep making money and enjoying art the way I choose to. 😁
  54. chocobitz825

    Your boss wants AI to replace you. The writer's strike shows you how to fight back

    Well I guess computers learned the universal language. Guess we must agree to disagree. An ability to comprehend and participate in art does not equate to a calling for a deep appreciation for it. We all have to eat, but it doesn’t mean we all have a calling to be chefs, or even are compelled...
  55. chocobitz825

    Your boss wants AI to replace you. The writer's strike shows you how to fight back

    That’s a point I’m not trying to make. Art is not for snobs. If anything tech has turned more people into part-time artists because of how easily accessible the task is now as a social experience. My only point is, most people don’t care about art as much as self-identified artists do. Not...
  56. chocobitz825

    Your boss wants AI to replace you. The writer's strike shows you how to fight back

    Those were good times, don’t get me wrong, but let’s not act like the market was the same. The social experience of sitting down and listening to the radio or watching tv together at a fixed time with everyone else in your country (when the tech was new!) so you could talk about it later is not...
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    Your boss wants AI to replace you. The writer's strike shows you how to fight back

    Matter of perspective but where I think many artists and academics think it’s the dumbing down of the populace at fault, I believe the age of digital media has proven more that people just actually don’t give a sh*t about art as anything more than a social experience. It’s why junk is sufficient...
  58. chocobitz825

    Your boss wants AI to replace you. The writer's strike shows you how to fight back

    Let's be honest, people are afraid of the same things as always. Big companies using a tool to take advantage of people. Big companies afraid new tech will disrupt their cash flow, and security specialists concerned that independent parties can cause a bit of chaos. This always happens, no...
  59. chocobitz825

    Your boss wants AI to replace you. The writer's strike shows you how to fight back

    this is kinda the misconception....AI doesnt have to be better than humans at music. It just has to be sufficient for the tastes of the listeners. It's like junk food. Yeah I'm sure everyone would say McDonalds cant stand up to a 5-star meal from master chef.....but A LOT of people are still...
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    Your boss wants AI to replace you. The writer's strike shows you how to fight back

    Quite the opposite really. I’m liberated by the idea that art doesn’t need to be for anyone in particular. I make what I like for myself, and put it out on the market for others who hopefully will enjoy it. Their enjoyment, however, is no meter for the value of my art. The problem is how...
  61. chocobitz825

    Your boss wants AI to replace you. The writer's strike shows you how to fight back

    Unpopular opinion, but I think artists assume art means way more to the human experience than non-artists do.
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    Your boss wants AI to replace you. The writer's strike shows you how to fight back

    The rhetoric: “Your boss is trying to replace you with AI!” The real issue: “Is my job so simple, AI can sufficiently replace me from the consumer’s perspective?”🤔
  63. chocobitz825

    AI-generated music just around the corner: How do you feel about it?

    Sincere question…. Is talent really worth millions….?
  64. chocobitz825

    AI-generated music just around the corner: How do you feel about it?

    Realistically if they’re not making much money right now, theyre not losing much. If their talents havent set them out from the crowd already, AI isn’t really hurting them. If anything, hopefully as a tool they can utilize, they will learn to be more brave and unique so they do start to stand...
  65. chocobitz825

    VI-Control is being used to train AI

    missed the caption at the bottom?
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    VI-Control is being used to train AI

    While it is understandable to express concerns about the potential negative impacts of AI on society, there are several reasons to maintain a more optimistic and balanced view of AI development. First, it is essential to remember that AI advancements are driven by human ingenuity and the desire...
  67. chocobitz825

    VI-Control is being used to train AI

    great...AI just learned how to endlessly moan about intro deals, tutorial videos, legato implementation, and GAS..... with those skills, it will take over the world!
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    Guys I found a way to beat GAS

    I would agree with #2 in particular. A big killer of GAS was sitting down, reading the manuals for things I already have, and optimizing them for my workflow.
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    Guys I found a way to beat GAS

    analog synths here. totally cured my digital GAS.....
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    Guys I found a way to beat GAS

    got GAS? Just let it out...you'll feel better in the end.
  71. chocobitz825

    AI-generated music just around the corner: How do you feel about it?

    But every VI we buy has been to replace a player or a need to master an instrument, negatively impacting some industries. It's just not practical. Ideally, we'd all live in an art-filled world where people could collaborate on grand works, but realistically, our aims are often far beyond our...
  72. chocobitz825

    AI-generated music just around the corner: How do you feel about it?

    I forgot it could do this! This just saves a project for me where I needed a few extra vocals in a chorus! Some people might want to try layering these with choir libraries to get a few more natural and clear voices to stand out in the mix. AI is a tool. Use it. 🤷🏾‍♂️
  73. chocobitz825

    Stock Plugin Appreciation

    i would love to see more daws offer their stock plugins as VST for other DAWs to use. Some of the plugins listed here sound pretty great. I know that at least Reason has this option.
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    Stock Plugin Appreciation

    With all the subscription service drama lately, seems like a good time to reflect on the gems in our daws that we don’t spend enough time appreciating. I’d love to hear what some people feel are some of the best or underrated stock plugins in various daws! As a Studio One user, I have a lot of...
  75. chocobitz825

    What are your top Studio One feature and improvement requests? [Now with poll]

    I wish studio one would add sysex so that I could save, and drag and drop presets for my hardware synths.
  76. chocobitz825

    Justin Bieber sells song catalog for $200 million

    I'm curious about what they're investing in with that cash instead...
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    Studio One 6 is coming!

    I'd be interested to hear who else has experienced this problem. I've not experienced it before, but maybe there are certain settings or interfaces that create this issue...?
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    Adachi: Important update, 8Dio threatens reviewers and competing devs

    hmm....damn i missed a lot of this drama when I stepped away from the scoring community after that spitfire scoring contest drama years back....and now it just seems like the big developers keep exposing bad behavior and making it harder to support their products. I have so many 8DIO libraries...
  79. chocobitz825

    Don't forget Stock plugins!!!

    I think it's almost always a matter of bland design that tends to make people feel like the stock plugins don't get the job done compared to flashier looking third-party plugins. There's also a bit of a creative uniqueness that's lacking in stock plugins. The things that third-party plugins do...
  80. chocobitz825

    Don't forget Stock plugins!!!

    ever since presonus put out their sphere subscription, 95% of my plugin usage is presonus stock. A bit of waste that I spent so much on other plugins over the years. If I use them its almost out of a sense of guilt for having them sitting there collecting digital dust.
  81. chocobitz825

    AI-generated music just around the corner: How do you feel about it?

    Benn Jordan's video on the topic makes a very important point. Regulation almost always favors the custodians of art/music rights, more than it does the creators of the art. What we think would protect us from the upcoming manipulation of AI by the industry, will likely be regulation that makes...
  82. chocobitz825

    AI-generated music just around the corner: How do you feel about it?

    the issue I think we're all struggling with is the value of art and the human parts of art that creators care about, but consumers don't. AI works in an unbiased way and creates what it thinks fits a general idea of tone and emotion. With or without intent, it creates something sufficient for...
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    Artificial intelligence in the music industry

    This is the future. As a performer, I accept our eventual demise. I just hope I invest in one of these massive cash cows in time.
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    Artificial intelligence in the music industry

    Whatever genre suits the creator. Generally what comes out of AIVA needs quite a bit of hand work to make it coherent.
  85. chocobitz825

    Artificial intelligence in the music industry

    If ai music can make the same gains, I'm all for it. Let us get back to making real art instead of commercial art.
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    Artificial intelligence in the music industry

    I'd say people should give it a shot and put their results here. Sign up to try AIVA, and lets see what the human touch can do with an AI starting point. We're all talking about the threat of AI but not many people are putting up any proof of what it can or cant do for us yet.
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    Artificial intelligence in the music industry

    I would agree.. the aim of true art is express the human experience…but the bulk of modern art is just trend chasing. An AI may not fall in love or do anything of things you listed but it is fascinating how AI comes to understand what those things should look like or sound like. Its attempt to...
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    Artificial intelligence in the music industry

    I think the discomfort with AI is sparked by mankind's arrogance and a need to feel unique. AI basically does what people do, but with more resources and knowledge available, but no clear expression of emotion for people to immediately relate to. It takes the genres and influences it knows and...
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    Artificial intelligence in the music industry

    intelligence of any kind should be celebrated these days...
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    What are your top Studio One feature and improvement requests? [Now with poll]

    I appreciate that you note your perspective is based on your particular workflow. This is one of those things I've pondered lately in these endless DAW War debates. Everyone gives points and demerits to DAWs because it doesnt fit their workflow and many frame it as absolute proof that the DAW is...
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    Controversial opinions

    And all this from a Toto song? 😳
  92. chocobitz825

    Controversial opinions

    I read music charts, not minds, nor the room! If you say you want controversial opinions, expect proper delivery of the product you ordered!
  93. chocobitz825

    Controversial opinions

    Time changes all things including the vibe of a thread 😂
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    Controversial opinions

    another one just hit me… Music production hobbyists should not be the loudest voices in the debate over the pricing of music production, instruments, hardware, and software. It’s an impossible tier to appeal to. Beginners, artists/creators, and pros are easy…they all have a reasonable budget...
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    Controversial opinions

    Doing everything by one’s self is a potential sign of both genius, and complete lack of leadership/teamwork skills.
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    Controversial opinions

    Controversial Opinion: most YouTube channels are just like drug dealers peddling products and gossip, feeding into people’s GAS and need to be in on news and scandal. Whatever alternative media they think they’re creating in contrast to traditional media, they’re actually worse by being far...
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    Controversial opinions

    Tea is just dirty water
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    Studio One 6 is coming!

    I guess since this is also a feature I don’t use often it doesn’t hit me as hard as it does for others. I installed the color toolbar but ultimately rarely used it in my workflow. I can see the discomfit in the way things are especially if you felt the feature was important to your workflow...
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