The music industry already went through this with AutoTune and we know how that turned out.
It's just a way to get different kind of sound. It won't make you good tracks.
An example here: https://v.redd.it/fqlqrgumo5rf1
I find this one interesting because Rap has classically been difficult for these models (I think because it's technically difficult to find the right rhythms and flow for a given set of lyrics).
it's just AI slop, like the median
like if you just put a bunch of words together and shipped that. Quantity was never what people wanted imo.
It is impressive if the instrumental track was made with just some prompts though
I've been listening to this across a variety of genres though, maybe these lyrics and vocals are more to your taste:
(similar to Opeth) https://suno.com/song/9ab8da05-c3f2-412d-80b4-c7d0b3ae840f?s...
(indie rock) https://suno.com/song/756dd139-4cba-4e40-b29c-03ace1c69673
This marked a divergence from thousands of years of vocal performances where singing ability and enjoyment of the music were one and the same.
AutoTune was the first slop, and the general population seems to like it.
The problem with autotune is more that it removes a lot of nuance from singers' voices, it's like listening to MIDI instead of listening to a real piano. This is, however, something that can be improved. Synthesizers can produce wonderful musical effects, and there's lots of highly virtuoso music on synthesizers (including voice distortions, pretty similar technically to autotune) for those that are into it. Progrock, for example, was all about using new technology in complex and extremely interesting ways. Maybe more interestingly for your particular objection, you can look at early electronic music, say Vangelis or Isao Tomita or Kraftwerk. For at least parts of their songs, they could have just programmed their synthesizers ahead of time and played concerts without even being on stage - but that doesn't take away from the fact the music itself.
Ultimately, if the music sounds good and elicits some feelings and thoughts, it's good music. Whether the musicians can reproduce it live or it's done 90% in a studio doesn't really matter here. Of course, it does mean it may not be worth going to a live show from some particular performer, and it also means that the performer is not necessarily the most relevant artist - the person programming the "auto"tune should at least be considered part of the band.
For me the biggest thing is actually the production, there's many people involved usually and sometimes real magic gets made, and that magic might not even contain any vocals at first
like what is acceptable music? only raw vocals & acoustic instruments?
Yeah, it turned out that almost all mainstream tracks nowadays have post-processing on vocals (the extent varying between genres and styles).
they use it, everyone uses it, it got better to the point where most people dont know its used, ever heard of melodyne? well AI made it even better.
And then there has been about 20 years of people using it even as their style of music, notably in hip hop, reggaeton, urbano, country, etc.
Boomers like to think it was just an annoying fad in 2008-2011 or something, but it never went away, now everyone uses it, whether obvious or not
