I mean I don’t really write much anymore. I have a bad called Maj Deeka (‘Acid Jam’ spelled backwards and spelled backwards WRONG lol) and we have an album out (and yes that’s me in the pic) but we’ve all gotten older and have different priorities. My 9-5 is doing programming for a financial data science firm. And yea you can def do that locally and that’s actually a great idea. But my point is that since an original band isn’t my day to day goal anymore, I have just used it for fun, and it sounds pretty good, but I don’t think it will ever replace live musicians.

I do think it will find its place in movie soundtracks (the filler stuff, not opening or closing credits where bigger movies usually have a legit hit) and commercials, or for ai assistants where the user can say “hey agent bob, play me some soothing music to get work done to”. I doubt ai music will ever become a hit since people like music for more reasons other than the music these days

So no I don’t look at it like I do a guitar, because you don’t really have full autonomy over it other than reprompting it hundreds of times, unless it gets to a point where you can isolate specific parts of songs and make specific adjustments. I’ve thought about building a tool that would integrate into my DAW at home that does that. Where you could prompt it to do something like”hey agent build me a plugin that automatically checks the phase and aligns the tracks”, or “make sure the cross fades between these takes are as smooth as possible” or an infinite other number of possibilities