I think it’s unlikely that raw processing power will be the most important determining factor these days - for the first time, reasonable spec machines can generally meet most people’s needs for making music. Thinking back to my first music computers in the 90s, that’s quite a revolutionary achie ...

I’m not a tax expert, but I believe you must declare your worldwide income on your Australian tax return. As an Australian resident for tax purposes, you must declare income you earn anywhere in the world in your Australian tax return. This is known as your worldwide income. It includes any foreign i ...

I think your best bet is to look at other options. I don’t think Ableton is best suited to this, and you don’t need to buy a new machine to find a good solution. I would look at other PC based DAWs such as Reaper, Studio One or Cubase. Or others… None of them will give you a Sade sound out of the box ...

I, too, have had a recent hankerin’ for some fruit-based gadgetry and have taken advice from the hive. I’m not really for any performance improvement, although most modern machines would out-count my old Lenovo lappy. Instead, I’m obliged by work stuff to engage with the Apple environment so I reall ...

Instead of incessantly reconfiguring and upgrading my PC, I just “used” the Mac. I don't get it! What's with all this "incessant reconfiguring and upgrading" nonsense? I haven't needed or wanted to reconfigure anything on my PC, and the only 'upgrading' has been Windows standard security updates. It ...

I can't answer your question about latencies, and to some extent it will depend on your hardware, but in terms of adjusting config - I've never had to change anything, and in terms of noise, the only time I've ever heard anything is when testing the machine's performance, or occasionally doing ...

Don’t get stressed out about any of this AI music, it's not worth it. I spent the whole afternoon today editing my next album, AI will have a tough job getting a handle on it, it's influences, and the effects of certain types of medication used during it's conception, and the 70 years of life that i ...

I don't like the 'brick sound' either, but I can respect that it is expected in some genres and fashions. It's art, innit. But intersample peak clipping is just plain incompetent... I agree. I wonder if people who do that do it knowingly? It does add a tiny fraction of loudness and I wonder if that ...

Pop music is driven by fashion. The highly-limited brick sound has become a thing and I guess people like it. Personally, I think it ruins everything it touches.

AI music is especially effective in instrumental, ambient, electronic, and even some world music genres—areas where repetition, atmosphere, and vibe are key. The bar for "believability" is lower than in genres that rely on lyrical authenticity or vocal nuance (like indie rock, folk, or jazz vocals). ...

Drew Stephenson wrote: ↑Mon Jun 16, 2025 8:34 am That is... disconcerting.

It's pretty awful, IMO! (no criticism intended of the source material!)

I think there are two meanings of original, as in ‘a new piece’ and ‘containing unusual ideas’.

These overlap but they are not the same.

In the second case, the piece does not necessarily have to be new.

merlyn wrote: ↑Tue Jun 10, 2025 10:49 pm

RichardT wrote: ↑Sun Jun 08, 2025 9:16 am ... “It was starting to get really cheeky,” says Ono, who is also a freelance mathematical consultant for Epoch AI.

Ono might be biased due to the nature of his consulting work. Just sayin'.

Sure, that’s possible.

Yes, Ken, I just wanted to re-inforce it.

You could set up an LLC and then open a business account for payments but assuming you'll be appointing yourself director, your name will still show up on the companies house register. I think PPL membership costs a lot more as a company also but it's been a while. Setting up a company in the UK ...

As a counter to the (genuine) untrustworthiness of LLMs, there’s a specialised maths model that’s as good as the best graduate students, but takes 10 minutes to solve a problem that would take them months or years. I’ve highlighted an amazing sentence in the quote. I came up with a problem which expe ...

I’m sure it has some effect, but the effect it has is going to be some kind of distortion!

Just published in the Guardian today: From a radio host replaced by avatars to a comic artist whose drawings have been copied by Midjourney, how does it feel to be replaced by a bot? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/may/31/the-workers-who-lost-their-jobs-to-ai-chatgpt Nothing new here ...

Tough, undermining democracy is exactly what China is attempting to do.

https://isc.independent.gov.uk/wp-conte ... -China.pdf

This is the way it is, and your manipulative bluster won't change things.

I'm not going to engage you any further on this.

Ye gods and little fishes!! :shocked: Exactly. It's a brave new world... Google puts a fingerprint in the files to show they are AI generated, and limits the content they can contain but just wait till the Russians, Chinese and the right-wing libertarians create their own 'dark' versions and use ...

I came across this - some examples of what Google’s new Veo 3 can do - generating 720p video, voices and music. https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/05/ai-video-just-took-a-startling-leap-in-realism-are-we-doomed/ I find this flabbergasting. It’s come so far in just a year or so. Where it will be in 5 yea ...

Interestingly if you read the lives of the great composers they often struggled financially. Beethoven, who loved coffee, had to count out beans individually. Many great artists other than musicians also lived hand to mouth. I think the future is where smart people figure out how to use AI to do ...

AI will watch the film, generate Foley, translate the dialogue into whatever languages are required and lip sync it to the characters, and generate the music and effects (perhaps based on some themes and prompts from a human, or perhaps based on nothing at all). I suspect the only viewers of such a ...

When I ran up against the wall, I got an accounting degree. Had a surprisingly great career in that field for about 20 years. Made a ton of money. Now I own a staggering amount of toys which I refer to as my retirement fund. Still play music too. This is a great way to do things. Music becomes fun.