A quick review of AI used in Ableton, Max for live, and now these new ableton extensions.
Personally I don’t think there is anything wrong with it, it has really helped a lot of people get over the steep and long term learning curve which is only a good thing.
I think it is about to get blown wide open, but still musical aesthetic considerations will always relate to a human operator or human performance or human intuition and creativity.
Its sometime can be a heck of a lot of work to get your head around the tactility of using computers for music and the learning cycles for manipulating music software, plugins, modalities and ways of doing things or arriving at results.
There is still a good few ‘errors’ or ‘faults’ that come through ai generated music stems for example, but never the less helping get things going.
The end point of music streams and payments from online content hosting platforms isn’t the primary creative goal, and is a purely business inspired decision.
There are a lot of people out there that aren’t in it for the money. Never have, never will be although money would be nice.
SO for non commercial inspired endpoints, and also music for people to profit from online platforms, which admittedly are completely overwhelmed with AI “conjurations”, I still don’t have a problem really with ai generation.
In the end I think well evolve and adapt and move forward and come to include this additionally creative power as an enhancement or assistance in what is ultimately, from an artistic point of view, a quest for aesthetics and relisations through the sonic academy.