Just wait until the rush of commenters that insist you’re wrong about being offended that they want to automate and commodify every aspect of your life.
If you look at Taylor Swift's first 12 number one hits, each of them was written by a different writer. Compare that to bands from 30 years ago, many of whom wrote and recorded all the songs themselves.
Labels don't sign rock bands anymore because actually recording a rock band well in a studio is 10x the cost of just using a sampler and a single artist singing. I know folks want to blame AI, but it's really just enabling the latest iteration of this trend.
I'm not defending the whole thing. It's a shame, and I love going back and listening to my old Rush albums. But AI is not the problem here. It's the incentives.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_Swift_singles_discograp...
"We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" (2012): Taylor Swift, Max Martin, Shellback
"Shake It Off" (2014): Taylor Swift, Max Martin, Shellback
"Blank Space" (2014): Taylor Swift, Max Martin, Shellback
"Bad Blood" (featuring Kendrick Lamar) (2015): Taylor Swift, Kendrick Lamar, Max Martin, Shellback
"Look What You Made Me Do" (2017): Taylor Swift, Jack Antonoff, Richard Fairbrass, Fred Fairbrass, Rob Manzoli
"Cardigan" (2020): Taylor Swift, Aaron Dessner
"Willow" (2020): Taylor Swift, Aaron Dessner
"All Too Well (10 Minute Version) (Taylor's Version)" (2021): Taylor Swift, Liz Rose
"Anti-Hero" (2022): Taylor Swift, Jack Antonoff
"Cruel Summer" (2023): Taylor Swift, Jack Antonoff, St. Vincent
"Is It Over Now? (Taylor's Version)" (2023): Taylor Swift, Jack Antonoff
"Fortnight" (featuring Post Malone) (2024): Taylor Swift, Post Malone, Jack Antonoff
https://www.businessinsider.com/taylor-swift-number-one-hits...
Maybe there's been once since, but my point was she doesn't write her own songs...my point is about how the industry works now, compared to 30 years ago.
All kinds of indie, all kinds of metal, all kinds of rock, all kinds of everything.
The main difference is no MTV or rock radio. Prog rock? There is probably more prog being made now than ever.
Any decent studio can make a U87 on vocals, DI bass, Fender amp and several SM57s on drums sound as good as almost any album from 1970-2010
Hell I’ve seen a five part band get away with three mics total including drums and it was a smash hit
Rock “died” because culture moved on, not because of it being inherently expensive to record (which it’s not)
Anyway, he was the one that made the point that we don't sign rock bands anymore in the sense that they're not moving the industry. All you gotta do is look at the top songs that folks are listening to on Spotify or the radio and you'll immediately see what I'm talking about.
He was also the one that walked through the process of setting up mics for a drum kit and pointed out that it's just very expensive to get the studio time and the expertise to do all that correctly. He actually walks you through a studio where he's set up mics for a drum kit and explains why it's so difficult to do well. He then contrasts that with simply using samples that are professionally provided and that the cost difference is just immense.
Anyway, I don't need to die on this hill. My point was the music industry is going downhill regardless and AI is just one of many tools paving the way.
While the industry in software is obsessed with React and K8s, hackers still like self-hosting PHP apps. Same with music. The industry is powered by highly efficient teams that write, produce, and perform music at scale for a global audience, and that's totally different from contemporary guitar-based music (I suspect!) What's possible is very different from what makes money.
But in the 1970s-2000s it was complete black magic and without dedicating years to the craft - you were up to the whims of studios for how much you pay
Compare that today, for instance have a look at the Jazz-Rock Fusion band Vulfpeck’s first album. If you exclude the cost of instruments - they often only need three (rather cheap) mics. Everything else DI. Recorded in a basement for less than a couple grand - with effectively infinite recording time
Live drums are expensive compared to samples, but they’re not the reason an entire genre disappeared
That is not the issue. The issue is how incredibly generic the music is.
It also doesn't let you combine genres to make really strange sounds like audioLM can do.
This is just another Muzak generator like they use to play at Dennys. As generic music as possible to the appeal to the most average of average listener.
I think you really need to train your own model if you want to explore creative sound design or algorithmic composition. It just isn't going to be a mass market product worth venture capital money.