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    Sold my Soul to the Devil

    My SWAG is that using AI gives people a feeling of ownership and control over the final product. Imagine the AI generates a cue based on given parameters the client wants, quickly iterates through changes, and presents something that feels complete and polished. It's not that difficult to...
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    Sold my Soul to the Devil

    They simply treated any music they could access as fair game for use as training data. That's a false analogy. As Adam Neeley noted, it's like saying that a submarine is just like a person because they both swim underwater. The music wasn't posted "free" for corporations to use as training...
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    Sold my Soul to the Devil

    I'm not interested in generating music with Suno. But using it to create vocals and transform instrumentals is really tempting. When I put together Down That Long Road, I used SynthV for the vocals. But it would have made a lot more sense to use Suno for the final vocals. It would have been a...
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    Sold my Soul to the Devil

    Yeah, it really shows the potential for what neural networks can do for virtual instruments. It's a shame Suno got there by treating music on the internet as free training data.
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    Using Synth V for Songwriting #2: Painting Better Melodies

    Unfortunately, there are two parts to this: getting the line to scan, and getting the line to say the right thing. Getting the line to scan is usually a matter of making sure the strong syllable (usually the first) lands on the strong beat. So for example, if you put "somewhere" on a weak beat...
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    Sonarworks SoundID VoiceAI - First attempt!

    I've had a couple of occasions where I've loaded vocals into SynthV to see how well the worked. Sometimes it's sounded pretty good. But... It's usually pretty awful at guessing the actual words. But unlike ReSing or Vocoflex you can actually change words that it gets wrong. Just be prepared to...
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    Ron Sexsmith on why he has a "no co-writing" rule for all his albums

    I'm a hobbyist, so my motivation is different than a professional. Sometimes, a song is just a puzzle to be solved, and other times, it's a very personal story that I want communicate. Since I'm trying to reach an audience, I'll translate ideas into something that can fit into a song. I'll...
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    Songs by Month

    There's a listing of January songs here: https://360degreesound.com/10-great-january-songs/
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    Hope everyone's busy writing songs!

    As a hobbyist, it can be easy to get distracted by Real Life and not do any writing for a couple months. In truth, the holidays were spent checking out all the sales, trying to convince myself that I didn't really need to buy yet another library because I wasn't likely to ever use them, no...
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    Do You Think There Should be Rules for How Much AI Should be Allowed in Songs on This Forum

    The people who use AI to do all the work are likely to self-select themselves out of the forum, anyway. Because if you use Suno (or some similar tool) to do all the work, what's there to discuss? But as Mike suggested, if there is something to discuss, let's not preclude that.
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    Can a human-created song that uses Synthesizer V as a vocalist be pitched as "AI-free?"

    The question comes down to what "AI free" means to the person reading the label, not to you. An average person would think that a vocal "AI free" would mean that it was not generated by a computer. To an average person, a computer generated voice is a computer generated voice. Using...
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    A holiday tune and cautionary songwriting tale

    Great recovery, and fun song! As long as no one hears "Ho Santa" in the wrong context. 🙃
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    Songs by Month

    I always liked George Winston's "December" album. I used to play that a lot on cold winter days. Well, as "cold" and "winter" as Northern California gets. 😎
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    How does one access Presonus Universal Control mixer view?

    Yeah, I saw that. I just figured that maybe something in the various screenshots might hold something useful. Best of luck to him and you! 🤞
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    How does one access Presonus Universal Control mixer view?

    Sorry, the Windows version I have doesn't look like that. And honestly, I'm not even sure what it's a driver for, or why it's installed on my machine. :confused: Clicking the "..." icon in the upper right corner only shows me options that are already visible on his UI: Clicking the...
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