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We’ve been so desensitized with samples, auto tune, drum machines, grid snapping, etc that AI generated music doesn’t stray too far from what people are use to. Maybe this pushes music creation back into the wonderful world of imperfection.

Digital content has been comoditized. The best path forward for artists is to create experiential performances thay people can enjoy live, outside of the digital world. That's the new frontier for musicians, back to the beginning, where the listener and the artist are sitting in the same room sharing a human experience.

George Orwell predicted this in 1949 in his novel nineteen eighty four. "While he is waiting for Julia, he recognises a song that a prole woman below the window is singing, which is a popular song written by the versificator, which is a machine that writes songs with no human input." Yikes!

Ai is going to disrupt every industry. Nobody is prepared for how fast it is all going to happen. What is important is how we as a society take care of each other and how wealth is distributed.

Good thing I make music for me. I only release things so I can say I'm done with it.

As a DJ I really notice when a producer has put his hearth and soul in a track and is not afraid of trying new things. Unlike manny producers who just do the same trick over and over (like an ai) and never leave their comfort zone, these are the tracks that really set the the tone of the set and will be remembered and requested by the audience in the years to come. I see ai as just a tool, just like when digital dj’ing took over vinyl. Dj’s didn’t got replaced by automated playlists, event in electronic music people stil want to experience the human aspect. In the end the human equation behind the music, should not be underestimated in my opinion!

I hope that there will be a movement that embraces human-made music with all it's imperfections. AI may make generic music in the future and do it well, but human's will make something that means something more to them and through expressing their feelings, I believe humans make deeper music, that's more thought out and felt. Maybe I'm just hopeful, but making music is fun, making music is like a therapy, telling a story and I hope people will still appreciate human-made music forever and if they do not, it will still be my hobby, because it's fun and makes me feel better.

The purpose of music is connecting with each other. Before we had electronic devices music was so rare. We had to go outside to listen to music in live environments and meet other people to make the music together. I think in future live music will become more important than ever

How to stay calm and adapt to it? It will kill licensing first, music for ads, corporate uses, film and tv. As for real songs, people tend to go to artists, real people. I don’t see people being enthusiastic for an AI song. As for electronic music in clubs, most people dance on music they don’t know, so it could be dangerous if it’s cheaper for a club to produce an AI playlist than paying regular fees. So many questions. But yes, I was shocked by seeing this…

How depressing. Not only have producers been mugged off for years, especially since downloads were introduced. Now I’d say A.I is the final nail in the coffin for a lot of us.

The "AI is just a tool"-era is officially over

"I studied music for about 12 years, and I was sure that the day would come when people would hear me, and somehow I would be able to monetize my hard work. Then, we got this. I cry."

This is just the start too. It will develop and get better and better.

Performance will be all that's left in the future.

I'm genuinely shocked there are no class action lawsuits stemming from the use of AI being fed copywritten work to produce their tools. I feel like it wouldn't be too hard to prove in court, especially when you can feed the AI lines like "in the style of ____" and it actually sounds/looks like the artists' work. The basis for proof in copywrite claims in court aren't stringent and it would severely hamper AI companies. If a record label decided to take its own IP and make an AI then that would be 100% legal, but at that point they've paid the artist. They can do whatever they want with it.

First as an professional sax player I didn't like it but it is so good it will wanish all shity pop and contemporary music and will disolve corporate connection to run in a big music industry

Came after chat gpt was reading me a custom text and I felt like a person was reading it to me, I am an IT guy ,I was skeptical about how good AI was going to be with language processing and for the first time I am scared. We are making a dangerous entity.

I tried to film a similart video 2 days ago but I had to stop mid shooting because I could feel like panic settling in. Not only this is terrifying but also f*cking unfair towards hard working musicians. I firmly believe it won't replace art, but making a living out of this will be... so much more difficult. As if it's not difficult enough already.

The day that music died... It used to be known as Feb. 3, 1959, when Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson were killed in a plane crash. But now we can see that it actually happened on March 21, 2024, with the stable release of Suno v3.

Okay, we're fucked

You hit the key point, which a lot seem to miss - that being; this is improving so rapidly. In a couple of years (Much shorter probably) not only will the imperfections be sorted, but the quality will be far beyond what a human can do. This applies to EVERYTHING. We need to be asking ourselves some serious questions...

Hopefully the DAW's will soon integrate some new tools based on this kind of algo, and therefore all music producers and composers will have more space and time to explore many more aspects of what 'writing music' can be, and which AI can still not touch. Anyway thx for sharing this!

First ChatGPT came for the copywriters, and I did not speak out- Because I was not a copywriter. Then MidJourney came for the graphic designers, and I did not speak out- Because I was not a graphic designer. Then Udio came for the musicians, and I did not speak out- Because I was not a musician. Then AI came for me-and there was no one left to speak for me.

places it's likely to have the biggest impact, IMO, are some more mundane places for music - commercial jingles, TV episode background tracks, video game music, low-budget movie scores ... I don't expect people to stop loving their favorite IRL music stars. But the studio folk who were used to making a living in less glamorous jobs? It's time for them to worry right now.

if i find out that any DJ at one of my shows plays an AI track they''ll be banned, tarred and feathered.

Great video, Alice. 🔥🔥

but we had many Al artists in the past: Weird Al Jankovic, Al Green, Al Jarreau...

the voice on the Death Metal tracks are INSANE, crispy clean

people said the same thing when ai generated art came out, but until today it still seems too artificial and i still prefer the human part. same thing with music, i rest my case.

Hey Alice, thank you so much for your work. I've been following you for years and can only appreciate all the knowledge you've been spreading and important topics that you bring to the channel. Keep rocking! I watched this video in the morning, read a good part of the comments section and many thoughts came to my mind throughout the day. Now I think I can finally structure them. Super long text alert. First of all, as a music producer I am also concerned with almost everything that was mentioned in the video by Alice and here in the comments. AI is impressive, but at the same time weird and scary. But do you remember what else people were also very scared of? The internet. In the early years of the internet, a lot of people were very afraid that it would damage humanity forever. People were concerned about data privacy, security, inappropriate content accessed by kids, social isolation and technology addiction. Did all of that happen? Hell yes - it did. All of those things happened with the invention of the internet, but what else did it bring to society? We made education and knowledge accessible to people who don't have the money to pay for an expensive course, books, or whatever it takes to learn something. We are only here having this discussion because the internet exists and allowed Alice to create and upload this video for us to watch it. Or would Alice send letters with the tutorials by post and written by hand to all of the subscribers? Probably not. We increased by a million times the awareness of social issues, environment tragedies and made donations possible through a click. We have connected countries, continents and today it's possible to talk and exchange with a person that is on the other side of the world. We have created new jobs - content creators, software engineers, web designers, etc. We have made other jobs much easier (oh my God if you think your email inbox is messy, imagine handling thousands of papers and having to look for an old one when you need it). I could go on and on here and talk about the infinite benefits that the internet brought to human society, even though it also had its negative impacts. I don't believe it will be different with AI. It can cause harm, but I also believe it will bring many positive outcomes, maybe things we don't even imagine or can predict right now, because we actually have no idea how far, complex and deep this technology will go. Now talking about art and music - yes, what Alice showed us in the video is striking and crazy. It's science fiction stuff and it's reality. I understand the threat music producers feel when watching and listening to these results and the fear that art will deteriorate or decline. At the same time, I think AI can have a very positive impact on art in general. Because of how "easy" and quick it will be to create something that sounds decent with just a few words typed into a prompt, I believe this can raise the creativity bar, since artists will be forced to be more audacious, do something different, and explore even deeper their own feelings, thoughts and ideas. AI will for sure massify music even more and I think this can actually lead real human artists to be even more authentic, original and genuine. AI is based on prompts. It needs inputs to create and needs to "copy" something that is already published. You know what it can't have? All of the experiences you have lived in your life. That relationship or friendship that had an impact in your personality and inspired you to write a song. Your own visions and feelings that no one else has, because each human being is unique and distinctive. It looks like people are the same, but they're not. It just takes a bit of time and a few conversations to realize a person is one of a kind and that's why we love artists, because they are themselves. Regarding the "fake artists" topic that AI can create - don't forget that we as listeners, fans, "art consumers" (let's call it like that) also connect with the artists as people. And I'm not talking about checking their social media and knowing where they have been, which clothes they are wearing or other superficial things. I'm talking about connecting with their deep singular characteristics and own visions. We want to know what their story is, we want to watch their interviews, maybe read their biography, watch a movie about their life or simply watch the videos they share on social media that inspire us. AI has none of that. Fans will always look for real human artists, no matter how much AI generated art is out there. Let's be honest. Music production has been extremely massified and standardized for many years already. A lot of songs are simple copies and reproductions of formulas that have been working and selling. I'm not talking about tracks that have been influenced or have similar characteristics from other tracks. Of course, every artist influences themselves by other artists. Artists "steal" inputs to be recreated in their art ("matter is not created or destroyed - only rearranged"). So it's obvious that pieces of art - music, film, books, paintings - will have traces of what has influenced their creator. However, we see more and more producers that are not rearranging anything or bringing anything new to the game, and this has been happening way earlier than AI was created. I also don't blame the artists that only replicate formulas that exist. After all, artists also need to eat, pay bills and therefore need to sell. It's understandable that production goes towards what is trendy, or "hyped". However, that doesn't bring art any further, it keeps the "loop" that already exists and goes against the principles of art and especially electronic music, which was born from an experimental mindset that wants to go to the future and create something new. Regarding what it means to be an artist - I don't think there is any rule or standards one needs to have to be considered an artist. If you had a travel machine, travelled 300 years back in time and told a cello or organ player that you are a musician, but you only use a computer to make music, they would probably call you a lunatic. The same way some DJs say that a DJ that does not play with vinyl is not a real DJ. Not even going to go into this, because I think it's simply a waste of time to discuss whether someone is an artist or not because of the tools they use. Better use that time to create art. To conclude, AI might be the click we needed as artists to understand we have to do our own stuff. We have to follow our instincts and we should not be afraid of risking and testing our own crazy ideas. Crafting something that "sounds good" and works commercially is something artificial intelligence can already do and, as Alice said, will only improve its quality from now on. So maybe, just maybe, this is the time for us to risk artistically more than ever, because that, my friends, is what will make us stand out in the infinite ocean of music with tons of tracks being released every single day. As long as you exist, use your unique feelings, soul and consciousness to create, art will never, ever, die.

Had a play with yesterday. It's a bit of nightmare to get it to consistently make an actual song over 1.30 that works but I definitely see it getting there when it starts spitting out stems then we are in trouble.

Yeah! I'm scared too! I frown upon people who use AI in their production, asif they're not talented enough to do their own thing, cause every time a little bit of control is taken away from the producer, it becomes a little bit more soulless and less authentic. I refuse it, and I will continue to produce music my own human way. I imagine the AI has a lot of potential but will it ever master things as perfectionistic mix and mastering, melodies you haven't heard before, lyrics that can resonate with in a very deep level. We should for oncd trust our human brain and outdo the machines!

I can see how real artists will have zero chance of being heard, because their songs will be one in millions. Right now, little guys like me have almost no chance of even getting their songs to be played by someone. Soon, that chance will get so ridiculously low that it can be defined as zero. We're all pre-AI age producers, and we have learned our skills through hard work, minds full of dreams and whatever. But what will be the motivation of future producers to learn from scratch and devote their lives to producing music? To be honest, I don't even have motivation for music anymore. Some say we will keep making music for fun, but making music is not fun. It's hard work. The fun comes from knowing that people will value our hard work.

Yesterday I used Suno AI to see for myself the results of a simple text input, which was "Dreamy Retro-Synth Wave Instrumental". In less than a minute the app produced a song titled "Midnight Memories"...The song was quite good, and as a musician I found it absolutely terrifying.

I heard about suno before and your video made me curious, especially because you showed us that you can enter your own lyrics (German worked surprisingly well). I had a lot of fun several evenings to try out different styles of music with more or less the same lyrics (heavy metal, hyper trance, classical ballad/tenor). The 10 free song fragments were used up every day. Now I got some ideas and would like to make a song with a DAW ... but unfortunatly I don't have the skills ...

So basically, if you're not already a known top producer/dj, at most it seems you can be a local producer/dj in the underground scene, and hope to make enough money from gigs to survive. Yay to the automatization of everything.

6:20 hello Female Blink 182... 7:20 trailer for a movie starring Will Smith and Vin Diesel with a lot of CGI cars, guns, and cars with guns... 8:35 Varg Vikernes gets out of prison, discovers AI on Mallorca. Reacts as expected. yes I guessed the A.I. songs in the beginning. Recognising Muad'dib's name AND Anna Kendrick playing Poppy the Troll was a dead giveaway. So having a wide pop culture vocabulary might be some buffer against being "tricked" by A.I. as long as it tends (as it seems to in both apps) to pick *one* example from its training set that is highly correlated with each part of its text prompt [insert hyperpedantic digression about some coder getting Burzum's flavour of metal wrong]. But that has sort of been the case for ages. Everyone lifts from everyone else, as Paul Simon says, so if you listen for it you can hear, say, the Smashing Pumpkins in Nirvana, or early U2 in peak Foo Fighters, etc. etc. ad nauseam. The difference is maybe that Daft Punk sampled artists forgotten (or never known) by their audience, while A.I. will, more or less by design, tend to mimic the most widely recogniseable of its training set. Not a problem in the increasingly short-attention-span world of streaming hits the majors and platforms are pushing us to (what song gets rinsed on drive time radio for 6 weeks straight these days?). Is the solution to "stop" producing? I.e. make fewer songs, but more unique? Let the bots make samey muzak that always has a bazillion different titles and midjourney album art but is instantly recogniseable as 6000 flavours of "Bad Guy" with a Skrillex vocal sample? "We believe it is closer to the year 2199, Neo, and every song is now Levels".

I don’t know how I feel about this yet, but your video about what’s happening is top notch!

My guess: All 4 are AI created. The only thing I am unsure about is track 3, which any human can have made.

SUNO creates very catchy melodies, but if you use it for a long time, you begin to notice the same melodic moves. UDIO has much more varied melodies and more complex arrangements and harmonies. In UDIO it is more difficult to create a good long composition than in SUNO, but as a result it turns out better and more interesting. Plus in UDIO, of course, the quality of sound and, especially, vocals is much higher. I have already created several actually decent songs in various styles in SUNO and UDIO using my own lyrics. Here are some examples: SUNO: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ed2JqteJzKerXZ8.html kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hc1iaJt_2q-0ips.html kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nNuCqL1_qZrNgqc.html UDIO: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/itWPjdOY07vFfXk.html kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rdOmppV8mNPbm3k.html kzfaq.info/get/bejne/f5d2o7ukqLa9hKs.html

I have started to do this seriously only 2 years ago (producing that is, I'm a a bit older) and I always knew I could somehow end up making it in the industry at least to live on it with my music and Record Label I started this year but now I ain't sure no more, it's a scare Alice and thank you for waking us all up. BUT I still think that people will want to hear music made by us even though AI can do it already exponentially faster than we can. We still have that human touch and feel that can still felt through a proper track I think. AI will always imitate us at best. We are still the originals. That's how I see it. Good luck to you my friend.

Crazy! I enjoyed your reactions the most.

Wow. Thankyou Alice. What is all this saying to us? It’s saying go deeper into your art deeper into authentic self. Find what truly moves you. And perhaps that is what will truly move others. We are all connected.Fascinating times. I wonder where this will take us next?

I found it beautiful to see you laughing and having fun while listening to the songs :). This having said, I think that the instant gratification everyone gets for "creating" something by "themselves" with just a few clicks is the real thread.

My own feeling is that it may become “the thing” for a while, and we will end up with a lot of guff, but ultimately there will be a backlash against it, and ‘real’ producers will be valued. It may mean taking on a larger in-person presence, but the audience likes the interpersonal connection. Try not to despair too much.

The good part is that one can make a fuller experience uaing video, social reach, audio, all with a common integrity from a single person. Will require us to adjust.

As a producer of electronic music, I find myself jamming on synthesizers more. And as a DJ I scratch with vinyl. You can watch me do both these things on my channel. For me, it's a way to get away from controllers and DAWs, but also to show that my music is not produced and mixed with AI 😸

If we separate money from the equation, the pleasure is on the making the music. The creation itself, creativity, transferring the emotions, struggle and getting the result. For the listeners on the other hand, its not a big difference. AI and human made music will be blend on platforms and no one will be sure which is which. So, no problem. This trend will increase, to the point that artists no longer in demand by "industry" as before. Many producers especially those who are going after money and fame in this "business" will chose another profession. There maybe be some people put front, some "stars" to entertain listeners on shows and performances singing on top of the AI music at the stage. People will rush to these tools to create their kind of promptic music via AI's help. Soon platforms overfill with these tracks, people will be rejoiced over the new freedom. It will eventually depress people due to mostly interacting something created by machines. Then quest for a change may be start.

AI draws a line between what it means to 'make' music and what it means to 'listen' to music. Making music will always be a need for humans who have to evacuate what comes from inside of them, whether you earn a living from it or not. AI in this sense will never be like us. Listening to music on the other hand is definitely going for a strange ride, and will effect the industry side no doubt about it. But that is why I think the performance side is going to gain momentum as this is the perfect blending of the music making by the artists, and the listening of the audiences. I'm sure people are going to be looking for more live connection with music in the future... And create a real boundary with AI.

A thing that keeps me optimistic ist the communication to AI and the fact that people like to follow people. The problem is explaining something you want as an outcome will be much harder than actually produce it in sum in the daw. You can tell to change it and it may sounds okay, but there is and i think there will be a huge gap between the control that a producer has and the AI ones. Implementing AI in the DAW may be the scariest thing that could change alot. But People will like to keep hearing their favourite Artist. And thats simply becouse there is a real person behind it, its just like social media influence.

The 4th song showtune sounded like Shirley MacLaine.

I kinda agree on your take on this topic, but I believe that ultimatly the A.I. music on demand will not stand the test of time, and this is just our times trend in music industry. Heres why - All through music history we have seen different trends changing the music scene the way we see it. We have gone through different music like the 80's glam rock with blazing guitar solos, and then suddenly it dissapeared in the early 90's when Nirvana brought grunge to the scene. Record labels first didn't want to sign them because they weren't playing "the right music", but when they saw people really liking it and the grunge scene started to blow up and have a following, then they signed grunge band after grunde band, and the music scene was now changed. But it wasn't the record labels that first took a shot at grunge music, it wasn't until they saw how big impact this new music had on people that they belived they could sell this new music. The record labels always think they know what they are doing, but time and time again it shows that when someone by themself is doing something new and starts getting peoples recognition, then the record labels will follow. Lokk at David Guetta - who would have thought in the 90's that underground DJ's and producers would sell out big arenas and festival shows and top the charts like they do today, and what greater example than David? When he produced "I got a feeling" for the black eyed peas, he brought a fresh sound to the mainstream, but it wasn't like electronic music was new, right? It had existed underground for many years, and it wasn't until David produced an EDM style track for a then allready well known band, introducing the genre to a whole new audience who got turned on by something new, that people really started getting their eyes up for this kind of music. The song blew up, and opened alot of doors for David, and the EDM music scene as well, as record labels really saw that this "new sound" was selling. If you had asked the record labels a couple of yeas prior to that to make an EDM style song, they probably wouldn't have, because it wasn't "the right music". And what about Adele, and Ed Sheeran, they were absolutely killing it when they were at the top of their game! And I believe they did so because they stood out in song writing and producing by using organic instruments most of the time, compared to this new EDM music who by then was topping the charts. Do you see where I'm going with this? A.I. makes great music by now, for sure, but they don't make anything new. They just have a formula of what has worked in the past, and makes a song in a soup mix of what has allready been done before. And if A.I. should top the charts for a while, what about when all music starts sounding the same, and someon independent starts making a fresh new sound? People will follow it, and when people starts following, so will the record labels and music industry. Most likely the A.I will be used as a music tool with time, rather than taking over an entire industry. Look at autotune - yes alot is using it, but then also the music industry isn't built around the autotune, is it? I bet they belived it would be so when it came on the marked, but it ultimatly just became a tool. And I believe A.I. will be a tool with time as well.

I’ve been producing for 15 years, and I studied AI. Some partners of mind are telling me that music will be easy to create, but the reality is the essence and the art behind a track. You can think the same with the painting. Now people can create anything, but you learn that what you value the most is the things behind that idea. Prompts are useful for ideas or testing. But the reality is what makes us humans are impossible to be clone by AI. Use AI, tested, create new sound and new things but be confident in your abilities. Everyone can create music or learn to use a daw or a prompt, but they are capable of crafting something unique especial and fulfill of their essence and energy?

not to mention that now anyone can make music. people, regardless of whether they make good or bad music, want to exist in this world so hard and want mean something so much that they create music for free anyway, so what's the difference? this market is broken anyway

The experience of live music, is going to be a spiritual transformation for many. They will start to feel what means " feeling the waves of musical creativity", a nurturing process, a unique moment where eternity and present time encounter. This is what I feel when I play live music, improvisation thru inspirational moods. To offer a unique piece of immortality.

Yeah this is crazy, even as a producer myself it is interesting. I'm not worried mysteriously, but this is crazy

I’m not afraid at all. I spent the last 10 years learning to reverse engineer the in the box producers but with a DAWless setup. I see AI music as a catalyst for adding value to the DAWless scene as it’s now a way to PROVE authenticity easily. I also see this creating a push for more DAWless artists to push past 4-8 bar loops and more in song mode sequencer structure territory.

It hurts to read the comments. There are good intentions but a lot of incoherence. Socially, we are not mentally or emotionally ready to rationally understand the many changes to come.

There was already more supply than demand before. The majority of musicians and authors pays more to get their music published than they make with their art. The best thing you can do is to create music no one has ever done before.

Great video that raises a large number of interesting questions! When I think about this, I always go back to Christopher Small's book "Musicking" where he says that "Music is not a thing at all but an activity, something that people do. " In that sense, people will always make music and AI, at least currently, seems a fairly poor imitation of "what people do". Cheers!

Great topic Alice...NOW Stop!! nobody move !! Don't sell your studio on Ebay for a 10th of what you invested. It's a smokescreen meant to get us to train their @$@$$% models. Sure check em out have fun, take em for a spin...but don't be too KrEaTiVe with them. Asking for something like Beethovens 9th Symphony in the style of Deth , Sludge , Math , Polka, Metal, with Drake's voice raised and pitched in Autotune every 3 words, sung in Medieval Japanese will not be a big hit on Earth, on the distant planet Zaxlon it will be. Ok my friends heres what may be going down..the "Evil" brains making these programs are looking for the BIG payoff to sell or license to companies like..hmm let's say Apple . A soon to be coming example of what I propose, Apple puts AI into all their Flagship programs and creates a Logic Pro, Top Tier Level Subscription. The subscriber is allowed to create loops and songs, BUT the finished work has Apples newly created Digital Rights Management embedded protection .The AI "Prompt" Artist has the same deal with Itunes, only its now categorized as AI offerings. Apple is about making money and could care less how. Sooo... The AI Beast is free and will not be caged .Tame the beast and learn all the AI tools completely and incorporate them into your workflow. You pros reading this, show your clients why YOU are the best Prompt Artist around. For the amateurs, get to experience the magic of typing into existence something you only dreamed of hearing. Well thats my multiple takes on this remarkable subject. Every new creative breakthrough in history has been seen as negative and positive. For all creatives out there.. the sign in Mandarin for crisis is also opportunity. AI may dance on our creative producer graves or we Whoman Beeings will dance on AI's grave...one teensey weensy problem, AI Aint gotz know Bonz to stomps On.! That makes the score AI 0 Humans 1 Yeeeessss we are winning!!! Oh by they way this Text was created by Crap DPT 13.5 and a half.....nahhhh Im only Kidding Im real flush und bloood.. Keep KREEaToN... fellow ARteests

I haven't touched my daw since V3 came . I'm impatiently waiting for more control over the outputs. The ability to upload your own song reference and chord information. It should be awesome for producers going forward. All you need now is a small bit of technical skill and an imagination.

My first thought was they're all A.I. So obviously something is off.

yeah guessed right.. it's a tough thing to think about. On one hand it's a new tool and that's how we've always evolved, with new tools.. On the other hand, at least a small part of why I produce music is because not everyone can do it *could* - I went from being a dj to being a producer because I wanted my sets to be more unique / special and have something that no one's heard before. Dj'ing got killed for me when CDj's became the standard away from turn tables, the skill required was gone, and that made it less fun, less challenging and less special..

I guessed right :) You can tell because, a parte the small audio glitches, there is no originality in AI composition. There’s no unique sound design. It learned to reproduce a musical vibe and tracks that are already there, in large amounts needed for training. Maybe It’s gonna change the mainstream industry but the underground, more experimental one is maybe going to benefit from AI?

I think AI music really shines where music needs to fulfill a certain role or certain expectations, e.g. in ads, film, games, background music in a gym, coffee house, basically anything where music itself isn’t the main focus. But when it comes to performing or even only listening to music for the sake of enjoying music, it‘ll quickly just sound the same to anyone. Or at least afaik, AI usually can’t really break out of it‘s own cliché-oriented thinking and really create something innovative just on its own. So I guess we as musicians but also as a society need to ask ourselves more, when is music just there to be consumed like anything else and when is music there to be enjoyed

The first thing I made with Suno just blew my mind. I could tell it was partly machine generated, but it sounded really good and was leagues beyond anything I have seen AI do before. I did a track a week project in 2022 (with a mulligan a month for a total of 40) with the idea of taking the best 8 or so to make an album from them. The track the AI put out was far from perfect, but if it had been one of my 40, it would probably make the cut for the final 8. There is going to have to be an economic reckoning as we seem to be approaching an AI singularity point where not just musicians and artists are out of jobs, but just about everyone.

It’s an absolute threat for the current way of working as an artist producer. But that said, I’m hopeful. Transformational changes like this WILL disturb and disrupt, but also introduce new opportunities for the non-established producers and performers. And yes, I think it will shift the focus more and more towards real human artists cultivating real personal connections… a fan base. The quality of productions will be most ‘infected’ by these new technologies.

I was gonna say NOT to fear Alice, you have a loyal fanbase who will continue to follow and support you. But then, I am 53. The days of buying vinyl, even CDs, is but a distant memory. With steaming, torrents and file sharing, do the younger generations EVER buy music any more. My youngest, a 16-year-old lad, has adopted my passion for vinyl and spends all we allow him to on it. On further reflection, I guess my generation was just as bad, taping the radio, borrowing CDs to burn a copy, etc. Yeah, scary shizz for real.

As a hobbyist music producer, I am excited to see these tools. This is a great resource of material you can use in your own music.

Awesome content as always

What will really impress us is if an AI program can reproduce the voice and singing style of a good opera singer, including a medium-rate, full-length-of-the-note, operatic singing vibrato. Maybe showcase this in a future KZfaq video for both a male voice and a female voice.

if they add the option to download stems it'll be a great way to get vocal samples🔥

this is scary and sad about the future of the music but this in a small part imo already happen when spotify blow internet yeah there you can find everysong etc but as a user i found out that usually you listen to a song and go over to another one without going on the artist profile and dive deep in the other production, and was really different before spotify when there was just SoundCloud and usually you were more courious about what the other music maybe can made an artist when you listen to a song so as you said in the video the music on demand right now we are not there on saying to an AI the specific genre or mood or lyrics but in a gym for example you go on a playlist and just listen to music without knowing the artist or as is said before looking for the other track he/she made so unfortunately this is a topic that will simply develop on this "music on demand" because we are not more interested on a particular artist but just listen randomly music and as a producer this make really depress hope this make sense

Excellent video, as usual. My takes (some of which are already articulated well in other comments): - I'm not too worried about AI's impact on my performing, which I've been doing since the early 70s (rock, pop, jazz, blues). Each performance is different, and is a product of the musicians' moods, the crowd, and a million other contextual and experiential things. Might AI be able to reproduce this one day? Might we be visited by aliens who can shred guitars better than we can? Might we figure out ways to leverage that if it happens, and make even better music and performances? Maybe; but can't worry about every hypothetical. I've been hearing about the death of live music since disco. Yes, certain trends and innovations pose a challenge. Others (better DAWs, streaming sites) provide opportunities, or a combo of challenges and opportunities. - On the songwriting side (where I'm all over the place, including house/EDM, reggaeton, rap, rock, blues...), I see AI-generated songs as just more songs. I already "compete" (not really, cause I want everyone to succeed) with millions of other songwriters online. We humans are not AI, though. We react to experiences and emotions. I'm not the greatest songwriter or lyricist. But I come up with stuff that is likely not part of the algorithm, even if the algorithm has built-in randomness. Also, the AI is only as good as the people who program it, and the data from which it bases its output. That's a finite set, and eventually AI songs from a common dataset, using a common set of code, will sound repetitive. Again, a hundred years from now, maybe AI can do everything, but the farther out in the future you go, the more other factors change, so it's impossible to predict. Bottom line, I'm not too worried, but I acknowledge that, like many other innovations, it will have some disruptive effect, and may cause some shifts, and possibly some expected or unforeseen positive benefits.

To point in making music is to express yourself and having fun on the process and not to compete. So it doesnt matter

Man is the measure of all things. Never, I repeat, never will AI take away the work of producers who convey value and a message through their music. Everyone else who produces content for industry, mass production, advertising, applied music is at risk. Just as the graphic works did not take away the work of the graphic artists who created, not copied.

It‘s like with in many other areas… an architect will not be replaced by ai. But by an architect knowing how to use ai. That it‘s similar with music, we can already tell by listening to the tracks that are created with suno on the suno subreddit. Yes, they sound technically good (often). But the vast majority sounds just generic. Tracks that make you go aah, this is really good music are very rare and i think they are done by people who already know how to make good music

I stoped producing about 9 month ago, when there was only lalals, musicfy and maybe stable diffusion. I said goodbye to about 30 years of producing music. - Now hearing what suno, udio, or even sonauto does, it was the right decision.

I’m sorry, but to my understanding this is absolute nonsense, because so many people who are promoting AI as the best thing since sliced bread with their scare approach tactics don't seem to have the slightest idea about REAL musicians, their abilities, craft and art. I'm also pretty sure that ALL of the Hip Hop & R&B greats in the music business, performers as well as producers, will just laugh when they listen to what kind of rubbish AI comes up with. Listen to Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Queen, Sting, Quincy Jones, Jacob Collier, even Max Martin, and many, many other awesome musicians and producers, and then show me any AI that is capable of coming even close to their finesse and geniuses, not to mention the classical composers. I bet you'll fail miserably to prove to me that AI will ever beat real human creativity because everything that I've heard from or tested on AI tools such as UDIO or SUNO so far is just mediocre cliché stuff with very little ingenuity present, and pretty poor in comparison to the REAL musicians or music producers with all of their individual creativity skills and intuition of which AI lacks BIG TIME because it ain’t got no soul and never will. Its so-called musical creations are just algorithm based copies of stolen content from already existing music on the internet (singers as well as musicians). This concerns the way the lyrics are written, the chords and their progression as well as the musical song structures and final productions. But nothing that AI comes up with is very sophisticated and far from the hit quality that really well produced human songs has. In my eyes those music AI platforms are nothing more than way overrated copycat tools that seem to be hyped by non professional or wannabe musicians who seem to only be jumping on this bandwagon to generate clicks for their channels by pretending that real, human artists are on the losing end. This is definitely not the case, not by a long shot, and THAT IS THE GOOD NEWS! The other good news is that there is already some lawsuits happening regarding copyright and royalty infringement. But, I admit that it still can be some fun playing around with those tools, and I also agree, that the greedy music INDUSTRY has already some wet dreams about AI created content that they can sell royalty free to their average Joe Blows. But wait; who’s gonna tour all of that stuff in the end, AI as well??? If that would happen, I guess some musicians would go to those concerts armed with their pump guns and will clean up.

In today's dance scene, reliance on pre-recorded mixes and samples is killing creativity. The true threat isn't AI; it's DJs unable to mix without a sync button or producers relying solely on sample banks. It's time for genuine talent and creativity to reclaim the spotlight through a revolutionary change.

One of the perks of making music is the appreciation of your fans. Yes, making music itself is a big part of the joy but let's be honest, we love to get the compliments and to see others dance to your sounds. If your music won't be played or danced to because AI tracks are considered better, that would be quite the horror. As much as I love to dive in my studio and create some tracks on my own, having other people listen to them and appreciate them (and stream them ;)) is the actual icing on the cake as well as the bread and butter we've been earning. I share your concern! But I am also very curious to what's next. Such a ambiguous sentiment.

I'm not that scared. AI will always be copying the things that humans came up with before. So, in a way, this will motivate artists to come up with new things to stay relevant. I see this as a motivation to stay original.

Don't be scared. Embrace it. I'm biased because I'm a software engineer & owner of an AI company but I love producing house. Consider the possibilities. Consider that the record labels are more scared than you are. I believe a new level of quality will emerge. The AI will create decent tracks, and you (Being a pro producer) will use the AI to help you make even better tracks than everyone else can make themselves or generate with AI. To make truly exceptional music requires the language of music production. There are more technical reasons for me thinking this which I won't get into much here. Sufficive to say you are still needed. I 100% recommend learning all the new AI tools. There are many more (Many free/open-source and super cheap) than you showed.

Ai's such as udio will change how we consume music forever. People will start making their own music and flooding the internet. The "professionals" will be competing with someone who's pent-up artist has just been released. Many of these newbies will just make and listen to exclusively the type music they like. Many will share, many will build a KZfaq channel, most will not make much money but they will be a collective drain on the music industry.

Exactly how I am feeling right now .... scared. You already have some following and streams, what should a beginner like me to do ? It was almost looking impossible to make a break as a new artist/producer but now the chances are going to be even more slim, especially when people are just uploading 100s (if not more) songs per day to platforms like Spotify. Been a few weeks since you posted this, Would love to see a follow up video on how you are dealing with this at a personal, emotional/mental level? Everyone I talked to they say you make music for yourself, not for a living. But I do want to make money with my skills too.

as an jazz artist, i see the future in: live gigs, imperfection ( on purpose), free jazz could be one key element. (experimental stuff, outside of our normal / western scale and so on) and storytelling - try to tell a story with your music, ai cant reproduce emotion (for now).

I’m with you on this journey, you’ve helped me on mine. Documentary the AI music revolution, it’s a once in a lifetime opportunity. Make incredible music beyond any previous conception using these tools, we’ll be watching and supporting.

I tried a few of these AI music generating apps. The results were unimpressive, but that's probably because I entered prompts such as "Hybrid song combining Mahavishnu Orchestra and early Queen." or "Jimi Hendrix playing with the London Symphony Orchestra." You are absolutely right that this can pose a threat to musicians. Our only option is to use AI in a way that enhances our own music, and to promote awareness that our music is superior to the cookie-cutter music AI generates

Once in my childhood I saw an advertisement from Nike, or I don’t remember where the robots came from and displaced the football players, but of course, in the end, living people defeated them, but no one knows what will happen in life. but I know that in the music industry it’s more about personality, it’s like one virtual model that was created, they talked a lot about it, but over time the peoples forgot about it

Thanks for your view on AI music. AI music doesn’t sound hifi yet to me, but it’s getting close. Samples companies have more competition now too, for example for vocal and instrumental samples and phrases made by AI. The user just fills in the text and off you go with stuff for your own productions. Did you also check out the RipX AI DAW software? It’s kind like an advanced Melodyne, incredible software.

Saw a KZfaq video that a music attorney saying don't use a.i. for music 😅. I create my own everything. Drums: use a drum sequencer and make your own patterns. Sing: your own voice... Music: get creative and compose... This is the route I'm taking... The industry if your not popular is not always fair 😢.

thank you for these demonstrations :)

Imagine what AI will be able to do in a couple of years. Mindblowing. I'm excited about the progress and believe that music producers will be able to use AI as a powerful tool, but yes with the competition stiffening even further.

I gonna catch the instruments with a stem separator, edit them with samplab and another sampler, and redo the vocals with a voice synth software, and, as producer, I will be in again! The A.I. plays, and I sample and flip what the A.I. plays to be still the producer!

i think that last 1-5% is going to be really hard for AI to figure out. That fuziness on top. Same with the fingers on graphics.

Great tool honestly for creating tracks for various forms of content. I would not worry tho, it still can't be CREATIVE as a human. For instance, it can't think of playing loops on used reel to reel and design sound that way like BOC for example. Or, while you can ask for a song LIKE Burial, now that his catalogue is out, yes, you can get it - but it can't be creative in the same way humans are, simply different thought process. Also can you please share the dune musical its fenomenal.

однажды в детстве я увидел рекламу от найки или не помню, где пришли роботы и сместили футболистов , но конечно же в итоге живые люди победили их , но как будет в жизни никто не знает . но я знаю то , что в музыкальной индустрии больше решает личность , это похоже на одну виртуальную модель , которую создавали , о ней много говорилось , но со временем о ней забыли

Than you, Do something that no one else has done, a glossary of music terms. I think you should even make a content on composer terms for organizing music infrastructure 🙋🏻‍♂️👍