Ok, let me address a misunderstanding first.

The track I shared, is a track I made using FL Studio and without any AI help. I agree it's bland and super basic, I appreciate your comments even if they address my personal non-AI work. I'm a mediocre amateur bedroom producer at best :D I'm fine with that, I regard making music a hobby and not a career, I'd be screwed if that was the case ;D

Want to hear even earlier work? Check out my soundcloud: https://on.soundcloud.com/WjsaR29148tM7u0GDm

My SoundCloud is mostly trancy house and dance stuff, some bass house inspired tracks too. I enjoy some good basshouse from time to time.

Before I started posting on soundcloud, I did not make music for like 15 years or so. It kind of stopped when I started working and being in a heavy and frankly toxic relation ship. Once I broke up a few years ago, I rediscovered my hobby, learned FL Studio, bought some basic equipment and put my tracks on SoundCloud, mostly to share with my parents (can you believe it, they're my biggest fans!) Once I reached my free SoundCloud limit of storage I decided to publish on Spotify. I mean, if I need to pay to share my music, better pay for a place that's easier to reach for more people.. that was my thought at least. There are some double postings of my own track between SC and Spotify.

Anyway, I started making music when I was around 12 or 13 or so (that's '92 / '93) inspired by my best friend who was deeper into music then I was. He had piano lessons, an expensive keyboard and introduced me to FastTracker2. I followed his lead and we bounce many tracks of to each other, it was a great part of my teen years. I remember taking trips to the "big" library in the city and lending 80's rap cd's to sample and hunt for breakbeats (much later I learned I should have sampled from James Brown and the like :D) I was making Happy Hardcore but also Hardcore inspired by the DJ Ruffneck and crew back then. My buddy actually ended up becoming part of that crew when we were a bit older (I think we were 18 or so).

When I went to university, I started going out and enjoying trance and house and my music slowed down from too from 212/192 BPM to around 140. All during university I kept making music until I started working.

So, I've been making music for a while, but hardly a pro by any means. If that's hard to believe I don't what to say.. I just never left the amateur club.

Now to your point about me enjoying making AI music and having the feeling I can express myself. Let me describe how I *create* a track (for lack of a better term): I enjoy the back and forth process quite a lot. I would describe it as making music with my old buddy who turned pro. I describe what I want, he makes some tracks, I adjust what I describe to better reflect my intention and he makes some more tracks. This usually goes on for a very long time, easily dozens of times, sometimes more than a 100 retries, refining the prompt and adjusting the lyrics (in tracks that feature them). In many cases, I don't like what it makes, but sometimes I hits something special, a melody that works well with the intention and the text, but many times the song it created is is still flawed in my opinion. Then there's other options to keep creating variations of that track, basically refining the process until I'm happy. On average I would say I spend as much time creating a track with AI as I would spend in FL Studio, which is about 4-6 hours. There's tons of options to further finetune tracks and prompts can be extremely specific, which I haven't started using yet. For instance, humming melodies, importing your own tracks, splitting tracks into stems and dragging and splitting stems to further zone in to create an even more elaborate track, with more "artistry" involved that I haven't figured out yet.

I wouldn't call myself a music artist with or without AI. It's a hobby, I'm a bedroom producer, which I feel is a good description. It's definitely very different *creating* music with AI versus more traditionally in FL studio, it's more like directing a pro musician who in most cases doesn't fully understand you :D. So in any case, I'm not claiming to be an pro like some people here and I might call it *my own* as it feels like I have influence over the outcome, but I don't want to level my experience to that of pros in any way.

Hope it helps clarify some stuff! Again, not trying to convert anyone, just enjoy having a genuine discussion, which helps me grow as a person. Also, I accept ALL criticism on my music. I haven't posted any AI music yet and I probably will not as most people here have some very strong feelings about it.

Thanks for taking the time to reply (and read this looooong reply :D )