Comments on: AI Music Survey: How 1,500 Music Producers Use AI For Music Production

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 18 Jun 2023 01:12:48 +0000

In reply to Dirk. Hate to say it but my experience with Ozone's AI mastering assistant was pretty bad. It kind of just threw a limiter on it with bad parameters and (for all 13 tracks of an album I was mixing/mastering) threw on an EQ with a very high frequency boost of a few dB, I think it was around 15-17kHz and up, so just for sparkle/shimmer/airiness frequencies. It made one already tinny-sounding song sound more in a bad way. I plan to ditch the MA and just go through manually and tweak everything to as close to perfection as I can. Not sure if it was a weird fluke, a bad day for the program, or if this is just how far the mastering assistant in Ozone 9 Advanced is able to go.

By: Dirk

Dirk — Tue, 30 May 2023 17:51:16 +0000

If you’ve tried stuff like iZotopes Ozone Master Assistant or other tools from the RX restoration module, it is saving a lot of time and the result is really good!!
I dream of things like having recorded and wanting to change the position of each Instrument just by picking a Symol and movving it (front back up down) or just draw a scene of my orchestra. Right now there are some tools let you correct it, but not so easy and compfy.

By: Tomislav Zlatic

Tomislav Zlatic — Tue, 30 May 2023 14:28:44 +0000

In reply to Oliver. Thanks for that de-esser story. :D I started almost 20 years ago and I agree that, although we had fewer software tools at our disposal, I miss the simplicity of that era. I used freeware tools like MuLab and Kristal to create entire songs, and I'm sure that not having hundreds of plugins (as I do nowadays) made the creative workflow far more simple.

By: Tomislav Zlatic

Tomislav Zlatic — Tue, 30 May 2023 14:25:16 +0000

In reply to Illford. I completely agree that preset generation and sound design are areas where AI could be very useful. As someone who does sound design daily, I can't wait to see new AI-based tools for crafting sounds.

By: Illford

Illford — Tue, 30 May 2023 14:15:35 +0000

AI is one of those things were it highly depend on who uses it, i doubt the threat is musicians themselves but rather companies who may have hired them lowering their use in favour of AI, in addition the rights behind AI voices is kind of murky, I view it like voicebanks in something like Vocaloid where a person is at least paid to record all the vocal samples and then you access the bank, i think some form of payment is deserved to whoever’s vocals they were originally just because it does suck to effectively lose work as a feature.

And with AI music i just don’t feel you can claim any true ownership, no real creativity or ideas went into it, it’s not even like copying where at least someone had to manually copy stuff, it’s just automated so the person does 0 work involved, it doesn’t help that AI is wholly emulation with no real creativity it can only make stuff that sounds like what it’s trained on, but it can’t necessarily push it further.

I think AI tools, one which im surprised hasn’t happened is AI preset generation or sound recreation which actually sounds useful, AI tools such as stem splitting is fine to me because i feel remixing is almost a right of passage, especially in electronic music.

By: Oliver

Oliver — Tue, 30 May 2023 12:46:52 +0000

I started producing music 24 years ago. For various reasons I stopped 20 years ago and started again almost 3 years ago.

What has changed since then is just incredible. You can make a whole orchestra sound with a few steps. You can mix and master with one tool and it sounds good… not perfect but good.

When I remember how I used to cut loops from demo synths from some music magazines and started arranging songs with a freeware version of Magix, I have to smile. You couldn’t save anything and I sometimes had to leave the computer running overnight to sample all the loops for the song. And if the computer crashed anyway, the song became a bit more monotonous haha

Today you can download all the studio equipment with a few clicks. Imagine if you always had to wait a week to get some free sounds or really really weird sounding freeware synths because the magazine only came out every week and hardware and software simply cost a fortune. Haha

My de-esser was a wave editor in which I smoothed the harsh sounds by hand. By HAND !!! It sounds really ridiculous but I miss the time somehow hahaha