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@GuitarSith @muz4now @pomCountyIrregs The same is true of instruments like Superior or EZ Drummer, some effects plugins and mastering tools. They're uncanny ... but they're not artificial intelligence, just clever software.
For me there's a line I don't have any interest in crossing. My interest is in music made by humans, and the humans who make music.
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@GuitarSith @muz4now @pomCountyIrregs I certainly use tools that some people =think= are artificial intelligence even though they're not.
A recent example that's come up in conversation here is SynthesizerV. It's just a database of phonemes recorded at semitone intervals across three octaves, with an editor that lets the user assemble a vocal line from these snippets; despite frequent insistence that it's "AI", it's just a mechanical tool.
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@GuitarSith @muz4now @pomCountyIrregs Like Stan, I think this is a slippery slope.
After reading someone else's experience, I tried putting some of my older, unreleased songs into suno.ai, then writing prompts that didn't change the song itself but cleaned up the performance in specific ways. The results were so fantastic they scared me.
They scared me because I could see that, taken to its natural conclusion, my involvement in this process would ultimately be at best irrelevant.
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Well, the CD and vinyl artwork for sideSister's second album is complete, and I've ordered a box of vinyl for local distribution.
I would also order CDs, but #Elasticstage's minimum quantity for CDs is 50. I see no use for 50 CDs. Am I wrong?
CLAVIER-36 is a programming environment for generative music.
https://clavier36.com/p/LtZDdcRP3haTWHErgvdM
'CLAVIER-36 is a live programming language for generative music, inspired by the world of cellular automata. Compose music by writing strange programs that evolve over time and take on a life of their own.'
There are plans to port this software to Steam by 2026.
You probably also know that the first single from the new sideSister album is called "Seventeen Carrots".
You may not know that it's getting some regular radio play locally on student radio and small indie stations. Aelyth's pleased, I'm thrilled.
That second album, "Space For You", is available for digital pre-order at https://sidesister.bandcamp.com/album/space-for-you ... but I'm picking you knew that.
I was away for three days last week, and brought home an unwelcome guest. Thankfully the cold or infection or whatever it was gave up after I spent the weekend in bed, and I'm pretty much back on form.
After a week's delay I finally committed to a release candidate for the final song on the second sideSister album this afternoon. Now it only requires Aelyth's imprimatur and we can move forward and submit those CD and vinyl pressings.
Songwriters of the Old West