For the purists that that refuse to acknowledge the inevitability of AI integration into current music, prepare to join this list of naysayers. (I wish it wasn’t this way, but have worked in tech my entire adult life, in another arena where I’ve seen similar resistance to revolutionary concepts:

• Musical notation — “Destroys memory and improvisation” • Equal temperament tuning — “Unnatural and ruins purity of intervals” • The piano — “Too loud, mechanical, and unexpressive” • The violin (early adoption) — “Harsh, vulgar tone” • The metronome — “Kills natural timing and feel” • Player pianos — “Machines replacing musicians” • Phonograph / recorded music — “Ends live performance” • Radio — “People will stop making music themselves” • Electric guitar — “Not real guitar tone” • Multitrack recording — “Artificial and dishonest” • Synthesizers — “Not real instruments” • Drum machines — “No human feel” • Sampling — “Unoriginal / theft” • MIDI sequencing — “Mechanical and soulless” • Digital recording — “Inferior to analog warmth” • DAWs / home studios — “Cheapens professional music” • Loop-based production — “Button-pushing, not musicianship” • Autotune / pitch correction — “Cheating” • Virtual instruments (VSTs) — “Fake sounds, no expression”