It is obvious to me that toontracks developers must be working overtime to train AI on its current ‘sampled’ products an dmore. IMO, unfortunately the music production world is moving heavily into AI tools and or ‘AI generative music’ and the competition is really heating up to develop these types of products. I assume if Toontracks still wants to stay in the game that this is where they are headed. They already have produced some of the best sampled drum kits on the market along with many midi grooves. So it stands to reason that the most recent release of EZdrummer 3 and its ‘bandmate’ feature is just the starting point. With this in mind, I wonder where this will end up taking its current products such as Superior Drummer 3 in terms of updates or new features. The other choice would be to add completely new product(s) that will try and more fully realize this AI revolution (Superior Drummer 4 . . . . . ). Again IMO, there is a big difference using AI in the context of it being a ‘tool’ rather than a self ‘generative’ crutch (aka Suno and others). It remains to be seen how Toontracks will play this out. This road also encompasses Toontracks other non-drum music production products but used the drummer ones as the example. Any Thoughts?
