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Do you create your own samples from scratch too? Kudos if you do, I haven't done that since the 90's, and I consider my music original. Ever used an arpeggiator? Or randomized patterns? Used a synth lead that came with the synth?
The distinction between automation and AI breaks down somewhere.
I like to take real life sounds and put layers of effects on them to make them indistinguishable from the original. My drum is me playing my cat’s butt (meow, slap). I love to take quick sounds and slow them down ~100k% and get really weird atmospheric drones, etc.
When it comes to involving AI, which I haven’t done yet, I’d love to use it to quickly iterate over ideas. I spend a lot of time chasing an idea and having it fall apart. I like the process, sure, but I’d prefer to have more wins.
Hey, man, I feel that.
But yeah I heard a friend of mine also slows down slices and makes new sounds out of them. I have not been able to get to a studio in years, unfortunately, but I hear it can be done!
And that's how I "use" Suno, too. Song ideas. I would never be able to live with myself if I just published an AI song, but I think using it to explore ideas is fair game. But then, you can download the stems in WAV, so you can basically use that instead of buying pre-made tracks from musicians on like Apple Store or whatever.
Which only comes back to the problem that it will likely hurt musicians and make life harder for everyone. I don't know man, I'm just as nonplussed about the whole fucking thing as anyone.
I think tools are tools. But I think “AI” has way too much hype around it. The best way I have ever used AI for creative purposes is to say “do this and let me see it” and then “ok, make it blue” and then… up until the point where I like the concept of a thing, and then I go make it myself. But that process is foreign to most people and that process triggers them and gives them this kind of overwhelming anxiety that makes them have to lash out in anger. I just don’t understand that mentality. I think it is a mental illness from too much screen time