… how nice that it’s for ProTools and macOS only - saves me some money. 
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Is this really useful? Not sure if i need an AI to do this for me… but i’m not a music mixer. Stuff like Color coding is not that time consuming, this is what templates are for. Or am i missing something here.
There is little room for templates in my world. Every project is different, coming from different places and people. Preparation is an essential part of my workflow, with musicians recording themselves using Logic, Live and similar tools, often without any deeper knowledge of a ‘proper’ workflow and/or delivery formats. It’s not uncommon for me to have to listen to, sort and prepare hundred or more audio files individually before I can know for sure what to expect from them when I hit “Start”.
… anything that is able to streamline this tedious part of my otherwise beloved job would be more than welcome and could be another reason to finally change the main DAW after all these years.
There’s a real good chance it is based on some open-source model and you can find it with some digging. I can’t guarantee that, of course, but it is REEEEEAL common with these BS AI services. They are way too lazy to do their own stuff so they just slap a wrapper on something publicly available.
A good example is AI Mastering. Almost all of them are just front-ends for Matchering.
The AI world is full of people doing open research, and full of grift reselling that. If you see something you like, always worth your while to do some exploring and see if maybe there’s a free version.
There’s certainly something to that, @Sycraft-w , but considering the problems that even dedicated, simple file exchange formats cause to this day, I assume there’s a lot more to do than pimping an LLM-based black box with a nice GUI, in that case … something for real coders, right, @Steinberg? 
You could do it. hint, hint
Fair enough . Why are people (your clients) so disorganised? How do they know what to expect from you? It sounds like laziness but maybe they just want to focus on creating sound?
… you never worked with self-recording musicians, did you? They don’t think in terms of “organising stuff” when gathering their ideas and developing songs. More often than not they don’t even live from making music.
That’s the easy part: They assume that I will take care of all the things they can’t or don’t want to take care of, and that everything will be fine in the end. That’s all they need to know (… but that’s not the subject here).
Of course, things are much more structured if I’m mixing mainstream productions in a purely professional, commercial context, like movie scores or one of the rare high-budget pop albums, but even then, migrating the material from the production unit(s) to my (changing) mixing environments would be much easier with a tool like ‘Forte!’.
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You are right on the money, i don’t mix pop-music. I’m in post audio and when i mix music it’s from composers that work from templates and we discuss deliverables beforehand.
You’ve probably tried to gently push your clients to think about that but it sounds like they don’t care enough or are not skilled enough. I can imagine a tool like this helps a lot in that case.
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Just to avoid misunderstandings: In the majority of these cases my clients aren’t careless at all. Quite contrary - many of them are brilliant musicians, creating all kinds of unbelievably great music. They do care about the production, it’s just not their mindset to convince Logic not to bounce dual-mono files from mono sources, or to check that Ableton Live hasn’t decided to reset itself to its default 16 bit export format, or to stick to a perfectly consistent naming scheme. 
I understand. I did not intend to suggest all your clients are amateurs just that sometimes they behave like that haha.
Seriously though i understand that in the flow of things sometimes poopies happens…
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