As Apple, Google and Microsoft integrate machine learning and artificial intelligence into their consumer tech products en masse, the music production space is loudly finding novel ways to harness AI — with mixed results. From impressive stem separation tools and smart plugins to litigious text-to-music services such as Suno and Udio, you can bet there’s some form of AI already infiltrating your studio. But is it a threat?
While major DAWs are making tentative steps towards incorporating AI and machine learning – like Logic Pro 11’s generative Studio Assistant instruments — it’s the smaller developers who are seemingly doing the truly innovative, out-there thinking right now. Notable among them are Hit’n’Mix, developers of RipX DAW, Moises.AI, which makes a multi-platform app for pulling apart and modifying existing music and Wavtool…