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We’re not in love
So don’t forget it
It’s just a silly phase we’re going through

bit harsh on Andrew Lloyd Webber but ok.

And honestly, I didn’t mean that reply for you a minute for everybody. The reply that I meant to say here, is that not sure if you’ll remember, but that time when synthesizers and midi first came out, the music industry, especially symphonic musicians, absolutely flipped out. Drummers freaked out because of drum machines. Arpeggiators on keyboards were thought to be substitutes for people that didn’t know how to play. Thing is music tech keeps evolving, but trust me, many of us would love to go back and do things with old school midi clocks and a ton of keyboards, a few guitar amps, and a set of Simmons drums, but it happens.

I guess the luxury of it is, we’ve all got opportunities to learn from different methods now, and I can have infinite amount of drum samples, and what feels like an infinite amount of guitar amps on a small hard drive now. And hopefully this technology will teach somebody how to find their groove, rather than just abused technology.

Honestly I think a lot of you take this the wrong way. As someone mentioned above, many composers throughout several centuries have used assistance. They have had people, or common scales, or different rules that they use throughout their scores, and have had people notate or transcribe their scores for and with them.

Hans Zimmer and Danny Elfman both made amazing scores prior to technology, but do you think they could do what they do without it today? And even still, they don’t do it 100% alone.

The real thing that people are missing about ai, is you shouldn’t use it as a tool to steal or make you lazy. Yes it’s good at both of those things, but it’s better as being a teaching tool. Think of somebody that had no formal training at all, that could open this up and all of a sudden have a world of music, melody, other things that they had never thought of brought in front of them. You can use it as a crutch for a small amount of time, but eventually you’re going to learn the patterns and things that you like, and develop into the musician that you are. It’s no different than having a music teacher, or going out and hiring a producer.

I hate to point it out, but talentless losers have been running the music industry for a century and didn’t need any AI to do it.

There should be a company called “F*ck This Nonsense.” Think of the numerous t-shirts they could sell with that logo, in this tumultuous time! Political rallies of any kind would be greatly enhanced if half of the crowd wore one. You could make added-value money by selling a sticker that neatly covers just the “u” for more delicate types.

Then they could really clean up by making banners of it to place over anything political. I can just hear a crowd of 40,000 chanting it all at once…. 🙂

Didn’t they say the same thing about sampling in the late 80s/early 90s? Not trying to attack you.

Long-time readers will remember when some commenters thought we should rename the site to ‘iPadtopia’ or that we “Sold out to Behringer”!

We get it. Change is hard!

But none of the electronic music pioneers achieved what they did by being luddites.

“I’ve been a long time follower of this website…”

Leden – thanks for commenting for the first time on Synthtopia!

“The amount of posts focusing on generative AI have gotten to be too much for me.”

Some of our readers have always been offended by change, whether it’s the rise of software synthesizers, the emergence of the iPad as a mobile music-making platform, or Behringer making knockoff synths a major category.

Synthesis and electronic music, though, have always been forward-looking, and AI is indisputably part of the future of music production.

People who comment don’t speak for all readers. The vocal minority is often emotional, negative, and reactive while the quiet majority perhaps finds interest in this read or simply doesn’t care and moves on.