Artificial intelligence is well and truly here, and even past naysayers must be finding it harder to deny its inevitable further symbiosis with human life across the board. AI has been with us for a while in music technology, with noise removal and restoration software being the most viable use case, and some compelling uses in mixing and mastering technology too.
More recently, as AI booms across disciplines, we’ve seen more powerful uses of AI in music tech, from the generating professional singers of Voice-Swap and the sample-interpolating powers of Synplant 2 to tools like Riffusion that will generate whole songs – or at least snippets – that sound pretty legit.
