Deal Compressor April 19, 2024 | Music Software Sales & New Releases

[@daja2946]

I find the Music & AI section to be increasing relevant, important and professionally helpful. Please keep it.

[@GR-M3]

Hi Don, please keep that AI section. I think It is important to track these developments. Thank you for your amazing work!

[@infinaneek]

Agreed

[@RNLafferty]

Thank you so much for putting these large and comprehensive lists together! It takes a lot of work and scouring to consolidate such a vast landscape of tools. The 'Music and AI' section is valid and helpful. It's extremely important to be aware of it. It's not going away and will be a major part of the industry in years to come. I don't think AI will be entirely replacing media composers anytime soon, but I do think creativity is going to become far more important to stand out from it. Those with unique voices and skillsets needn't worry.

[@EdVizenor]

So cool about you and your wife making music together.

[@l-ayex4552]

A review of Ultrasphere please !!!

[@spokansas]

Burying the head in the sand and just cursing AI won't make it go away. I am purely a hobbiest, but understand the pressure people who make a living composing media music must be feeling, but getting on top of it, and incorporating and using it to improve your own workflow and inventiveness to stand above the coming onslaught of generic (but well made) AI music may be the only option.

[@NeuroPete]

I love the Kilohearts Shaper Table plugin. I bought it at a discount because I own their other stuff, but there is also the related new free plugin Shaper, which is part of the free Essentials bundle. This bundle currently has 33 free effects plugins that can be used either as standalone VSTs in a DAW, or as snapins in a Kilohearts snapin host, such as Snapheap, MultiPass, and the Phase Plant synth. Both Shaper plugins distort sound by remapping a modifier waveform onto the source audio, but the paid Shaper Table adds the ability to morph the mapping over time using the multiple waveforms in a wave table.

[@peterbrandt7911]

I have no problem with A.I. coverage and this week's tool doesn't remove the artist, as Udio does. Thing is, Udio and services alike won't support musicians making more money or making our work easier, they'll replace musicians, if we don't draw a line at some point. As soon as any customer can simply type his idea into whatever interface and gets a pleasing result, they'll lose the need for composers. And there will be a music service one day, where every subscriber could simple get mood patches, generated by prompt or an even easier to use interface. This makes me incredible sad, why are we (humans) doing this to ourselves? Outsourcing art to machines?

[@peterbrandt7911]

​@@anattaevergreen I'm not offended by any specific product and there will be others like Udio, for sure. Like there's Stable Diffusion, Leonardo, Sora, Gemini, etc., etc. And I'm also quite aware of the economical side, but look. Art in general, at least in my humble opinion, should be first and foremost the way for us humans to decribe and discuss our wolrd and our place there in. It is probably the most visible difference to every other lifeform around us. The lack of quality is only a short term comfort, as these services will become better. But what do I know? Let's sacrifice human expression to empirical data models with fancy names.

[@bblas5199]

That new Dawesome Myth is sweeeet, innovative and melodic, perfectly matched to Kult, Abyss, etc

[@rogermcp]

Great video Don, BUT something was up with the audio. It was like you cut the audio too short. Just let you know. Love you man

[@SampleLibraryReviews]

Hey Roger, something is always “up with the audio” when you live in a bus 🤣 some days it’s construction next to you, some days it’s the cats yelling at you, some days it’s just the air conditioner. I always try my best to adjust my noise gate when I start the show (usually at 5:45 am before my household is up and banging around) but often it’s not perfect. Thanks for the support and I hope you find the show helpful and useful

[@rogermcp]

Totally get it. Haha. I know you live in the real world. I appreciate you brother.

[@shykall]

Really ? "Albion the list" ? Well I guess you have more of those puns in you Don , maybe far too many for me to mention... . More puns .... We want the pun and we want it now ! Great video, where the show, is, the real deal ;-)

[@EdVizenor]

Yes, Feature AI tools. What are we going to put our head in the sand and pretend it's not there? Come on.

[@scottlarock7924]

I think it's important that we communicate with our DAW creators and let them know that most of us, if I can make an assumption, would prefer AI tools that make the music production process easier to support our own creative process. Voice recognition and machine learning could take a lot of the brutal keyboard and mouse actions out of desktop music production. Help us refine the stuff we've already created. And so on. . .

[@SampleLibraryReviews]

100% agree!! 👏👏👏

[@ZeroKami86]

Love these vids, vocal audio felt a bit choppy today - like the gate was too tight or something (idk, not an audio engineer clearly)

[@DirettoIZM]

Viola Drama Textures and Shadow Strings sound great and are on my list. My First Look vote goes to Amateur Orchestra. I'm a big user of DaVinci Resolve but I haven't tried the Music Remixer tool yet. It looks useful, but their audio tools seem a bit clunky compared to their editing/color/compositing tools. I do most of my remixing in Logic. New music recorded in your bus??? Very cool - I'll check that out!

[@PatrickBuzoMusic]

Yes, AI is important and will become a stable tool at our sides. I hope you keep sharing upcoming AI tools, instruments and 3ffects

[@Seraph137]

Keep doing the AI section, ignore the trolls. Just ignoring AI won't make it go away. For me, it reminds me of the debate I am sure was around when virtual instruments starting coming onto the music scene. I am sure musicians who learned how to play THAT instrument might/could argue it wasn't "real" if you didn't learn to play the real instrument. Now look where virtual instruments are...

[@ricshaw4358]

Thanks for the AI info

[@NeuroPete]

Thanks for your reviews Don. Keep up with the AI reporting, even where it threatens to take food out of the mouths of musicians. It's coming anyway. Might as well be aware.

[@GiorgioBertuccelli]

DO AI...its the future.

[@newdreamsawaken]

Please keep some space for AI.