AI and AI in music production
How artificial intelligence is finding its way into our everyday lives
Regardless of whether it is about converting a frequency response into a tonal balance to the music direction, using a limiter with the right settings, adjusting the stereo width of a signal, or automatic EQ corrections in tonality and resonant frequencies to perform. With the help of intelligent algorithms, AI, i.e. artificial intelligence, has managed to simplify work significantly, make it easier and sometimes even take it off completely.
Whether it is about manufacturers like Isotopes, Sonible or baby audio ultimately plays a subordinate role. The fact is that the algorithms have now become very good and allow us to improve the work process in the Music production or in mixing or mastering and relieve us of decisions for which we may have previously had to create several versions of a mix in order to compare which setting we prefer for our project.
Amazingly but at the same time the demand increases after tutorials and lessons in music production, mixing and mastering. We personally see a direct connection here. Of course, the number of music enthusiasts is constantly growing due to the affordable conditions for music production, mixing and mastering. If you think back 15 or 20 years, hardly any normal mortal could own their own musical equipment or a reasonable one Audio PC afford because the costs were extremely high. But technology has continued to evolve over the past few years and has become affordable for almost everyone. Be it the audio interface, the microphone, the acoustic elements or the monitoring monitors. Due to the further development of technology, you can already get high quality for a relatively low price compared to the price level of 15 years ago.
Nevertheless, we see a direct connection between the decrease in decisions in music production, mixing or mastering and the increase in knowledge gaps, which processes in the background artificial intelligence takes over for us and why the AI makes certain decisions for us.
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How do we deal with technological progress?
When decisions are made for them, people tend to no longer question them, provided they are positive, and to deal with the reasons for the decisions made. We suspect the same for music production and its techniques and possible applications.
So maybe we don't ask ourselves why anymore compressors set a very short attack time and a very long release time for our piece, but just accept it. Basically, as long as the sound sounds good to us, that's not a bad approach, but as soon as we go into detail and know exactly where we want to go with the sound and what the end result should look like or sound like, we need understanding again for the processes that run for us in the background. Add to that the possibility that the result we hear may sound good, but do we really know if it is Maximum is that we can achieve according to our idea of sound?
Reviewing the artificial intelligence results, can we really be sure that a VCA compressor would be a better fit on our master bus than an opto compressor?
Do we really know if it is necessary to increase the bass range so much monofy, as suggested and set by the Stereotool with the help of artificial intelligence?
In order to judge this from a purely musical point of view, we need to understand where and why the artificial intelligence made this decision. From a technical point of view, we need to understand which reference values are the right ones in our analysis tools such as metering or goniometers.
Our conclusion on artificial intelligence in music production, mixing and mastering
Artificial Intelligence, or AI for short, can definitely be an advantage in music production be. Basically, we advise not always accepting the given as it is, but rather questioning processes and decisions made. This is the only way to ensure a continuous increase in your own productivity and quality in music production, mixing and mastering.
