AI has become now the thing that has become a contraversy amongst many realms of our daily lives. Most people when they think of ai might have more negative conotations. Examples are terminator, apocalypse, the end of the world.. It is understandable. There are even ai programs that can replicate someones voice and facial features in a realistic manner to use for unethical reasons. Even in the Music Entertainment Industry; replications of artists voices on instrumentals and releasing them as songs.
However, there are great uses of AI in music production equipment to make long strenuous tasks for engineers now easier than ever to use. Before we get into that. Lets look back to AI and how there were complications in the past of how machine learning seemed to be a complex problem to implement it into music. Ryan Groves in 2017 who is a researcher of music intelligence systems at Standford College gave a talk of how complex machine learning could be implemented to compose music. He has built music scores for video games using AI in its early stages of it being used. This is what he talks about:
"..emphasize the importance of building and validating machine-learning models that can perform particular musical tasks, and leveraging those to create artificially intelligent compositional agents'.
Automation of muiscal compositions are just one thing. Now the same technology is being engineer music. Music audio plugins have to parameter to sculpt a the sonic character of a sound. Now with machine learning audio plugin companies like Izotope are using it to set up vocal chains in plugins or setting up plugin chains on a channel strip to make a raw guitar recording sound clean and brighter. Izotope has a mastering product called Ozone 9 that uses it to give a plugin template by reading the audio wavform of the music on the track to master music for ready music cosumption:
"Our assistive technologies, like Master Assistant in Ozone, leverage AI to do a lot of the grunt work, thereby speeding up your workflow and allowing you to stay in the zone and focus on the details that matter most to you."
I beleive the use of this technology has saved record labels more time with spending many hours on recording time for the engineer. Making more music in less time at a more affordable rate. Huge companies are currently doing this. Sony Music has hired board members to run artificial intelligence in the use of their record label.
The uses of artificial intelligence with music is endless. It save more time and money and money for more companies to push out more products for music makers and users to enjoy. Overall it will help keep the health of the music and entertainment economy.
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