Suggestion for Ai tools for Cubase

No. It can’t. That’s a pretty gross exaggeration.

Lol. What?

I can’t. Look, it has nothing to do with this. People can sit around in art museums staring at paintings in an attempt to find something profound to say about them, but the average layman looks at it and decides if it’s cute or not. If they like it or not. It’s that simple.

We get it, you fancy yourself an artiste. Most music producers and composers do. But, if you’re going to thrive in this market, you also have to be a business[wo]man.

No one is going to suffer through some “real artists’” mediocre avante garde music because of an enlightened realization about it that has something to do with astronomy or weird pseudo religious explanations about their relationship to Mother Earth.

They’re going to press Skip on Spotify and hopefully they get something better to listen to.

The world is different. People don’t put on records and play them through end to end anymore - not most people… I will leave wiggle room for exceptions. They pick and choose which tracks they buy off albums and curate their playlists. They Like/Love/Favorite and Skip/Dislike/Block Tracks/Artists/etc. on streaming platforms.

It has been this way since the mid-2000s.

All of this is fine if you’re trying to find ways to motivate yourself to make music, or make different types of experimental music. It’s fine. Just know what you will be competing with computers that don’t need to rationalize their manner of production. They don’t need motivation. They just keep working, endlessly.

But at the end of the day the end goal is the same. Make music people enjoy listening to. 98.6% of consumers will not care who created the track. They only care if they enjoy listening to it. If you fail to do that, you will fail regardless of the rationale behind the choices you make when doing so. The only thing that matters is whether or not you get your numbers.

Life in the real world is not free. “Starving Artist” is not a cute look.

AI is going to be great for consumers because it’s going to deliver the productivity necessary to deliver endless varieties of likable music to the masses.

It’s going to suck for most artists because most artists won’t be able to compete with it. Human beings simply don’t have the capability to do so - except when leveraging that same technology. But how much leverage can you apply before it becomes to AI-generated that it can only be considered such? :stuck_out_tongue:

You can sort a list of 1,000,000 words by hand in alphabetical order and take weeks or months to do so - a task that requires nothing more than basic literacy - or you can click a few buttons in an application and have it do it in a minute or two (if it even takes that long).

That is the degree of disparity we are talking about.

The “AI” people are talking about is beyond iZotope Mix and Mastering Assistants (which were never “AI” in the first place)…

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