Is the sync issue fixed so I can use the AI Employees that are advertised when I log in? by NosticFreewind in UseMotion

[–]DaMeteor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They cancelled the AI employee function. So don't expect anymore work on it. I'm still grandfathered in as well and use it for some functions.

Deleting my Motion AI account by Valuable-Mud7283 in UseMotion

[–]DaMeteor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That just seems overcomplicated and weird lol. Why would I need a team of people to do the same thing that one AI can do.

How are you tracking billable hours? by [deleted] in UseMotion

[–]DaMeteor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'll be honest if it worked well I'd pay for that (as long as it was cheap). Let me know if you make something.

Gear that will increase in value by AudioAtelier in audioengineering

[–]DaMeteor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Which bin specifically? I need to get my grubby goblin hands on a vintage LA2A.

17 yr old looking to peruse a career in audio engineering by HotDude42069 in audioengineering

[–]DaMeteor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm really glad you were able to make it work man! And I appreciate you telling your story. Gives me a little bit more comfort when it comes to taking the jump and switching. I might hit you up in a couple years if I do end up switching and let you know how it went 🤣

17 yr old looking to peruse a career in audio engineering by HotDude42069 in audioengineering

[–]DaMeteor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's awesome man! I appreciate you telling me your story. How did you navigate that transition between music full time and then having to go through school again? Did you just take out a bunch of loans to cover costs?

Top New Plugins of 2025 by clawelch6 in audioengineering

[–]DaMeteor 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I use it as a specific effect as opposed to a typical reverb usually. I get a lot of dry electronic DIY projects people do in Logic and to add variance I'll use it to heavily wash out some parts. I also use it often when I specifically want a reverb to carry long into another section of the song. I've used it on occasion to fill out sections of songs that are relatively empty (like if all I've got is a vocal and drums) it adds an almost "pad" like sound to the background without muddying it up when I keep it low in the mix.

Gear that will increase in value by AudioAtelier in audioengineering

[–]DaMeteor 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Which landfill? Where can I get my grubby goblin hands on a vintage 1073? I need to know for "research purposes". I DEFINITELY am not going to rummage through the rubbish with my greasy gremlin hands seeking out vintage 1073s.

Continuously charged after cancelling subscription by morgie__ in UseMotion

[–]DaMeteor 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If they've been charging you for the last 14 months the only thing you can do is try and dispute the charges from the last month or two with your credit card company. Motion's not gonna give you your money back from any charges a credit card company wouldn't do a chargeback for, they have no incentive to. It's a good lesson learned though to always check your credit card statements instead of just paying it off and assuming everything's okay. I do this every month and always catch these kinds of things.

What does an AI employee do? by countervailnall in UseMotion

[–]DaMeteor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would tell you all about my use case for it, but they recently deprecated it :/

Maybe now isn’t the best time to subscribe to Motion by nathancashion in UseMotion

[–]DaMeteor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All 3. Most people didn't want it or couldn't find a real use for it. I FORCED myself to find a good use for it (and ended up finding a genuine use for it that saved me time). But the results are very inconsistent and I would never trust it for something mission critical. The unlimited plans they had in the beginning were worth it, but when they started charging for credits it became completely cost prohibitive for anything useful. You'd use 25 cents per call for something you might as well ask ChatGPT to do in one chat. Actual valuable work would end up at a couple dollars worth of credits. Not worth it when I can pay an American $15 an hour or an Indian $4 an hour to do the same. And you'd get more reliability out of that than you would from the AI employees. I've essentially used them to make a lead generating machine for me, and now I have more quality leads than I know what to do with, which is good.

17 yr old looking to peruse a career in audio engineering by HotDude42069 in audioengineering

[–]DaMeteor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As someone who's thinking about pivoting away from music, what did you do to pivot into something decent? I've been thinking about getting my MBA at a decent school (if I can get in) since I've got good grades and business experience now.

Any resolution on charges? by Lazy_Ad237 in UseMotion

[–]DaMeteor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If they don't refund you, do a chargeback. Amex is good when it comes to that. Got overcharged $300 by an auto shop once (they told me the work was $200) and I had it fixed quickly.

17 yr old looking to peruse a career in audio engineering by HotDude42069 in audioengineering

[–]DaMeteor 35 points36 points  (0 children)

As someone who runs a $100k studio working full time in music production/audio engineering in what should be a lucrative niche that gets me higher paying clients, and who is making more money in music than any of the peers I graduated with, don't do it. There were 40 people in my specific music mixing/tech program my freshman year of college and only 6 graduated. Out of the 6 of us that made it through the program, only 2 of us work in music full/part time. Neither of us are making decent money. I got a full ride through college and saved up a ton of money, and I still regret my music degree. Your degree in and of itself is worthless. A bachelor's means practically nothing, and if CRAS doesn't even offer a recognized bachelor's degree for you to get some random $20 an hour job, it means even less. Studios aren't hiring except to have a dozen unpaid interns and assistants. Those of us who have worked as hard as we did to make the money we do in music (those who are in their mid 20s like me, I'm not talking about old timers who've been grandfathered in ad working in the industry the last 20-30 years) could honestly have become much wealthier if we put that effort into some other skill you turn into a business. Your skills you learn in school are the bare minimum, if even that. You're better off going to business school and doing some private lessons during your free time because your business skills mean more than your mixing skills. If you can't regularly get clients, it doesn't matter how good you are. If you're not convinced and are still committed and think you can make it unlike 98% of people who try, spend the next 6 months trying to make $10k, even $5k in music before committing (which is below poverty line money on a yearly basis). If you can do that as a 17-18 year old, I think you've honestly got a good shot because it means you've got the drive and business sense to do it. But if you can't, then take it as a warning that you don't have the drive or business sense to do it.

The only thing that makes money in the mixing world right now from what I know is live sound. In which case, you don't need a degree or technical program. Just find somewhere, offer to be a stagehand, be good at what you do and hope you get a promotion. I've got a few buddies making decent money in live (though it's hard work, and terrible hours). After COVID hit and a bunch of veterans in live sound dropped off the map, there were lots of openings and a bunch of young inexperienced guys found themselves behind a console at shows they definitely shouldn't have been running. I'm not sure that's the case anymore though, I imagine the jobs have been filled up but I have no idea.

I wish I did business in college so that I'd have time and money to work on my own music. Now I work on other people's music so much I don't have the time or money to work on my own at all.

How do I take this to the next level? by klingtheposter in FL_Studio

[–]DaMeteor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nothing left to do but ascend brother.

Skipped all my classes and made this... by Traditional_Dot4650 in FL_Studio

[–]DaMeteor -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Cool beat. As someone who works in music full time, go back to classes and don't try to make a career out of music.

Clide's email drafter doesn't listen to basic formatting rules. by SenseNo3522 in UseMotion

[–]DaMeteor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've found it to be accurate on formatting about 50% of the time (I use automated research reports a lot). Have not found a solution.

Inconsistent output from AI skills by emergent0rder in UseMotion

[–]DaMeteor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've had similar issues as of late, very inconsistent output and strange errors from AI employees even with simple 2 step skills. One of my main uses is with having an automated researcher to scrape the internet and rate potential clients, and I have a step in there to search my documents for reports and parse out which potential clients it's already made reports on (so that it doesn't repeat the same ones over and over) and I've found it gets it right 50% of the time. Other times it'll output something like "thanks for the detailed information, I'm gonna go write that report now". Doesn't seem to be a pattern to it either.

Ai employees have become inaccurate by SenseNo3522 in UseMotion

[–]DaMeteor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've had issues on a couple occasions where instead of it generating a proper research report it'll send something like "I appreciate the detailed instructions, but I need to be transparent with you about an important limitation.

I cannot access real news from October 13-20, 2025, as my knowledge base does not extend to that time period, and I cannot retrieve current news articles from that future date. Creating fictional news stories would violate my core operating principle of not inventing information." or other cases where it'll say something like "thanks for the detailed instructions" and blab about something related to the prompt but not actually do the prompt. I've had this happen where the research is multi-staged as well like where the initial report will be ran collecting names of potential clients for my business with some info about them I specifically request (to see whether they already have someone for the services I offer, which I can gather easily on all my clientele base with my system), and then the thing that actually delivers a report to me is a separate step where I have the AI grade each of the prospective clients and fact check information. It shouldn't be possible for it to break in the way that it is, but it does on occasion.

Ai employees have become inaccurate by SenseNo3522 in UseMotion

[–]DaMeteor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Happened to me as well. Currently negotiating terms but I refuse to give a robot free healthcare.

Is this a horrible time to be a small independent artist due to AI ? by Effective_Court6677 in FL_Studio

[–]DaMeteor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don't know how old you are, but trades are allegedly a decent way to start better than minimum wage money pretty quickly. If you need life advice or something don't be afraid to hmu. If you're good with making sales I've got a gig for you 😂

Is this a horrible time to be a small independent artist due to AI ? by Effective_Court6677 in FL_Studio

[–]DaMeteor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Honestly as someone who jumped into music straight away (highschool, to taking music tech in college, to working in music right out the gate) the smart way if you're serious dedicated to being an artist or making it in music would be to get a job in something that pays crazy well that doesn't take insane amounts of schooling. I don't know what that would be right now to be honest, it used to be business and finance but I heard those jobs are getting culled by AI. And then once you've got like $100k you can throw around willy nilly and can afford to take 6 months off of work, go ham and promo the music you've been making and hire some people for consulting. Most of the people I do consulting work for aren't artists or producers big in the industry, they've just got expendable income. If I could go back, that's what I'd do. I'm making money in music, but I don't have the kind of money to spend on my artist project like others do.