It is becoming obvious to me and probably to many others that AI generative instrument VSTs are going to essentially replace our sample libraries and such. Current tools that use these libraries will also most likely be replaced. There are already a few AI generative VSTs being marketed. Whether you think AI is a great tool idea or not in your studio the libraries you may have could become completely outdated in usage.
My Opinion Only (below):
That is unless the Toontrack developers use their own libraries to train AI on and produce tools in conjunction with libraries already in existence. In other words to avoid copyright infringement based on ‘training’, you may have to have these libraries registered in your online account etc. to use the AI tool that trained on such libraries. Whether this is the way Toontracks will go has not been outlined as far as I know. In any case, I have become very hesitant to commit to any new library purchases in general until the situation is more clarified by Toontracks and other sampler VST type companies. While Toontracks has the assisted ‘bandmate’ feature in its ezd 3 I do not think this is going to be able compete against all out AI generative instruments, at least for the most part. Any other thoughts out there on this topic?
