AI has been coming for artists, photographers, graphic designers, copywriters, and lyricists; now, music is under attack! Unfortunately, this latest explosion of AI technologies is enabling a whole new generation of confusion. Now, more than ever, the lines between copyright infringement are incredibly close and blurry. So how will you navigate this brave new world of AI? In this episode, Cameron shares his thoughts on the subject and provides some inspiring tools to consider.

Resource drops:* Episode 29: Descript the Script (Modern Producer Secrets)

Sound/Sample Search:* Splice * Cosmos * AudioSteller * Musiio * Cyanite

Songwriting & Ideation:* Amper * Splash: AI-powered music-making Roblox game developer Splash raises $20m ‘to launch the next generation of superstars’ (Music Business Worldwide) * NSynth Super – Google * Melody Sauce 2 * Loudly * Boomy * Musico * LifeScore * Soundraw * Soundful * MuseNet * Bandlab SongStarter * Aiva Technologies * ORB Producer Suite

Audio Synthesis:* How to Generate AI Music with Dance Diffusion by Harmonai (audiocipher.com) * Dynascore - Dynascore’s AI Music Engine Writes Tracks to Match Your Videos (WIRED) * SampleRNN: An Unconditional End-to-End Neural Audio Generation Model (arxiv.org) * MubertAI/Mubert-Text-to-Music: A simple notebook demonstrating prompt-based music generation via Mubert API (Github) * Never Before Heard Sounds * Musika! Fast Infinite Waveform Music Generation (arxiv.org) * Jukebox (openai.com) * Mawf: a free machine learning-powered plugin synth from the company behind TikTok (MusicRadar)

Source Separation:* Spleeter by Deezer: Deezer introduces Spleeter, a free tool that anyone can use to create stems from stereo audio files (MusicRadar) * DEMUCS - Music source separation (danielfrg.com) * Audioshake * Audionamix

Audio Transcription:* Basic Pitch: An open source MIDI converter from Spotify

Voice & Speech Synthesis* Descript * Hybe acquires 56.1 percent stake in AI sound startup Supertone (koreatimes.co.kr) * Voiceful * Uberduck * X Studio * Eclipsed Sounds - Solaria Vocal Synthesis Software

Mixing & Mastering:* Focusrite FAST Limiter * Songmastr: Automatic song mastering to reference * Masterchannel: The First Human Mastering AI * Ozone 10: AI-powered audio mastering software (native Instruments) * iZotope update AI-powered assistants for Nectar Pro (kvraudio.com) * Accentize PreTube: AI-based tube preamp simulator and saturator - gearnews.com * BABY Audio - TAIP - AI Powered Tape Saturation Plugin * RoEx - AI Powered Mixing Services * BandLab Instant Online Audio Mastering

Production & Other:* Neutone by Qosmo * IK Multimedia Announces AmpliTube TONEX (Gearspace.com) * LALAL.AI: 100% AI-Powered Vocal and Instrumental Tracks Remover * Splitter.ai - AI Audio Processing * https://www.xlnaudio.com/

Lyrics & Text:* Abbey Road Red Announces Brainrap (Abbeyroad.com) * Maker AI - Ridiculously powerful AI content generation

Piracy Article:* If You Think Piracy Is Decreasing, You Haven’t Looked at the Data (Digital Music News 2015)

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Producer & Host: Cameron Bashaw

Editorial: Cameron Bashaw

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Published by: Teknofonic Recordings LLC

Intro Song: Project Overthrow – Cameron Bashaw

Outro song: We’ve Got Movement – Cameron Bashaw