Michael Jackson was an excellent musician, who just happened to not play any instruments. He'd hum lines, beatbox rhythms to his band who'd then take his ideas and transform his ideas into instrumental music. Most people don't have access to the quality musicians MJ had, but there's a lot of creative people that lack the skills to create their artistic vision. Tech like this could be the unleashing of an age of new genres and musical creativity. I'm optimistic.
The requirement to either pay a lot for or learn how to do mastering always seemed unnecessary to me.
Stuff like mixing, equalizing, sidechaining and eternal sample hunts all take a lot of time as well... It's why making music is one of the hobbies I had to let go.
Can't wait to get my hands on an AI powered DAW that skips all the tedious stuff!
Am I still the one making the music? Well, I'd argue the 300+ hours I'll probably sink into finetuning all the other stuff will say yes.
While the mixing process is certainly a frustrating one, it’s also the part I’m most addicted to. I mix something almost every day, whether it’s my own work or other multitracks “acquired” from the internet. It’s so much fun working backwards on a song I’m familiar with and going “ok, how the hell did they make the kick sound like that?!” and figuring it out :)
Tbh as much as I'm against stuff like this, I think a mixing and mastering AI could be useful since it is the less creative part of the process. I highly object to AI composing music though.
The next michael jackson will be an ai generated 3d model placed in ai generated videos with an ai generated voice making ai generated music, owned wholly by some big entity like zenimax or Disney. AIs like that will swamp the internet with so much stuff that it will become impossible to find authentic content, much like it's almost impossible to find a blog that isn't seo optimized and basically a business these days, except 10x worse since the ai output will be so large. This will be the end of non-live music and of celebrity musicians
(until: smartphone companies generate personalized musicians and directors and writers for you, and then even Disney gets sunk)
Michael Jackson also would not be Michael Jackson if not for the advent of MTV and Thriller. Embracing a new artistic medium to its fullest extent to make a 13 minute video in an age of 3 minute songs on the radio.
Creative people will find creative ways to use new creative tools.
There is even still amazing marble sculpture being made today but we are not going back to ancient Rome in terms of the importance of sculpture as a popular artistic medium of the day.
There will be cool, new electronic music genres from these AI tools and that sound might eventually make its way to whatever cultural icons of the day are making music. Mostly though no one will listen to these genres just like they don't listen to them today. Music just isn't that culturally important anymore overall.
The real big deal is AI video because video is the dominant artistic medium of right now by several orders of magnitude. This is all just a dress rehearsal for AI video at mass scale.
