Wonder how AI and wider availability of MPE or midi 2.0 pickups or guitars (or guitar-inspired instruments, that are perhaps much easier to play) may impact the popularity of guitars.
Traditional sample library guitars either don't sound realistic (with the exception of some limited playing styles) or are difficult and tedious to program so that they sound realistic. AI guitar still has some wonkiness and occasional artifacts to work out but it's getting good, already sounds shockingly emotional and expressive, and can apparently repeat melodies you input as audio.
OTOH the backlash to AI may already be making non-digital instruments more popular, at least in the short term. Some critics have attributed the resurgent popularity of country music (and country hybrids) to AI backlash, although it's been building for years (which could in part be a reaction to smartphones and digital technology more broadly...). (But once AI gets good enough to be indistinguishable from any human playing, even the most virtuosic and passionate, will the perceived value of being able to play the guitar decline among young people?... or the first generation to grow up with it as an established fact...)
New guitar-inspired MPE/midi 2.0 instruments could remove much of the discomfort (and, for many people, literal pain), tedium, and difficulty of learning guitar (partly by making it easier to learn as well as easier on the fingertips etc.). As well as obviously vastly expanding the range of possible tones and expressively playable parameters (bit ironic that this is referred to as "automation"---at least when recorded).
And AI should even be able to make your playing sound "better" by generating variations on it---I think Udio's audio input feature can already do this. And it will get even better, eventually offering more control....
Traditional sample library guitars either don't sound realistic (with the exception of some limited playing styles) or are difficult and tedious to program so that they sound realistic. AI guitar still has some wonkiness and occasional artifacts to work out but it's getting good, already sounds shockingly emotional and expressive, and can apparently repeat melodies you input as audio.
OTOH the backlash to AI may already be making non-digital instruments more popular, at least in the short term. Some critics have attributed the resurgent popularity of country music (and country hybrids) to AI backlash, although it's been building for years (which could in part be a reaction to smartphones and digital technology more broadly...). (But once AI gets good enough to be indistinguishable from any human playing, even the most virtuosic and passionate, will the perceived value of being able to play the guitar decline among young people?... or the first generation to grow up with it as an established fact...)
New guitar-inspired MPE/midi 2.0 instruments could remove much of the discomfort (and, for many people, literal pain), tedium, and difficulty of learning guitar (partly by making it easier to learn as well as easier on the fingertips etc.). As well as obviously vastly expanding the range of possible tones and expressively playable parameters (bit ironic that this is referred to as "automation"---at least when recorded).
And AI should even be able to make your playing sound "better" by generating variations on it---I think Udio's audio input feature can already do this. And it will get even better, eventually offering more control....
Statistics: Posted by Ou_Tis — Wed Jun 12, 2024 4:56 pm