It is obvious to me that toontracks developers must be...
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?
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?
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I assume you mean like a prompt type mixing/dynamics tool? At the moment Toontracks seem to be losing the AI situation in general. Instead they seem to be discounting some of their products like crazy (up to 70-80%). Not sure what that all means but if SD 4 ever comes out it will need serious integration with a AI tools in order to be competitive. The likes of SUNO and other generative AI music sites are diving headlong into the same territory that Toontracks covers but with substantial AI tools now. IMO those companies probably trained AI on products from Toontracks and other virtual instrument companies. Seems like it would be a losing battle using copyright infringement as the legal fight. How would one come up with the evidence? There is no identifier in the data that says what AI was trained on. Drum samples and grooves have been copied forever. Maybe Toontracks will be bought out by some generative AI company? These are just my opinions and have no inside information etc.
I assume you mean like a prompt type mixing/dynamics tool? At the moment Toontracks seem to be losing the AI situation in general. Instead they seem to be discounting some of their products like crazy (up to 70-80%). Not sure what that all means but if SD 4 ever comes out it will need serious integration with a AI tools in order to be competitive. The likes of SUNO and other generative AI music sites are diving headlong into the same territory that Toontracks covers but with substantial AI tools now. IMO those companies probably trained AI on products from Toontracks and other virtual instrument companies. Seems like it would be a losing battle using copyright infringement as the legal fight. How would one come up with the evidence? There is no identifier in the data that says what AI was trained on. Drum samples and grooves have been copied forever. Maybe Toontracks will be bought out by some generative AI company? These are just my opinions and have no inside information etc.
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