Comment by Min0taur | Hacker News Reader

Comment by Min0taur | Hacker News Reader

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"This is the only way for me to create music."

You're not creating music.

It feels incongruous to read that you don't have time to learn a DAW, or an instrument, but you have time to upload to YT, in multiple formats, and compare outcomes between shorts/vids?

Small pockets of free time can go a long ways: putting in 15-30 minutes a day towards learning something new will produce tangible results.

Learning to create music is such a multifaceted pleasure: exploring tooling and mechanics, integrating somatic processes (feeling it!), investigating theory and history, increasing execution incrementally, exploring and expressing emotions+ideas, and maybe, eventually, conveying those emotions and ideas to listeners? What richness!

The Suno->Youtube pipeline feels like an attempt to experience a watered-down version of the conveyance bit, at the expense of the rest.

Thanks for feedback.

Though I must correct you in places. Uploading a video to youtube takes me 1 minute, if not less. I really think that learning instruments takes a lot more time. I don't upload into youtube in multiple formats. I only use one format (as is from suno).

I can play a little bit on guitar and ukulele. I know that this is definitely not a route for me. I use my small pockets of time to lead my hobby projects at github. In life you have to choose about how you invest your time. I have chosen. It is still fun to "create" music through suno. So please do not suggest I should be playing 15 minute a day, since this is my time and I will invest it the way I like.

I understand that "creating" music through AI might be a lesser form of creating music, but for somebody who does not have that time for music this might be a fun thing. I hope you can understand that.

I think that I am creating music, since parts of lyrics are written by me, the rest I accept as they are. I remember xbcd cartoon about how programmers argue about how "real" programming is done.

https://xkcd.com/378/

I also remember that Jean Michelle Jarre had troubles with being recognized because he created "electronic" music, which was treated as something of a lesser form. I remember Andy Serkis not being recognized for his work in motion capture.

I think that you can "do" music any way you like, and play with different tools and things. Sure some musicians will laugh at you because play from tabs, not from notes, but hell I despise elitism.

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