I'm really curious how the traditional DAW features stack up against the incumbents. A good DAW has a ton of features. Developing a whole DAW from scratch just to add a "generate part" button sounds like a lot.
That + latency with MIDI devices is why every DAW-in-a-browser is just a toy.
I somehow doubt a full-blown browser connected to more than a couple of VSTs would be less of a resource hog than doing the same in a DAW. On your computer. That you own. In your house. Without like additional 50ms of latency for the data to travel to the server and back.
As horrible as it sounds, a VST is just a .dll file you're running straight from the Internet. On a "positive" note, they're backwards-compatible with like Windows Vista!
What does that mean? It means that your compositions (outside of bouncing them down to audio stems) exists within a highly proprietary SaaS format and that the moment you stop paying, you've got NOTHING.
99% of major DAWs (Ableton, Logic, FL Studio, Bitwig, Studio One, etc.) are a perpetual license.
They don't need the same feature list.
It seems similar to a Garage Band type of software, aiming to entice people with little audio production experience and give them an interesting sounding snippet they can play back to friends.
For example, the only actual audio editing they displayed was slicing and re-pitching (you can't even choose the time-stretch algorithm), which is conceptually very simple to understand.
There's no ability to actually edit dynamics or do very accurate frequency adjustments that I can see from the demos, so it's basically useless for anything I would want to do.
What I mean is that in a DAW you have a lots of tools that don't make sense in AI context.
Like for example, people who use agentic workflows don't need a Visual Studio license.
For advertising jingles it makes some sense. For artistic expression, like... what's the point?
I used to release music that people listend to, but not anymore, now the only joy comes from making it for myself. Am I still an artist?
If the act of creating this AI music provides joy to some, they should do it. I just have a hard time understanding that.
If the MtG card collector is not an artist does that mean they're bad and need to stop?
I think they are doing art.
If the main reason is to keep their items clean, as much time as they use doing the composition or how good it looks, they are not artist.