I don't know.

I'm a musician, and I like to play with music. I like to create things, and BiaB is one tool that helps me do that.

I don't want to say to some AI app, "Write a song in the dorian mode with a sax solo as the highlight."

Hundreds of CDs in my collection already do that or in another mode, and as much as I love listening to other people make music, I like to make my own.

It's one of the reasons why I don't use the Real Track solo and melody tracks. I want to play them myself.

I can put some chords into BiaB, run the app, pick up my sax, wind synth, or guitar and play along with it. Since I put the chords in myself, I know what they are, and have a few ideas on how to improvise a solo over the changes.

When I bought BiaB, back in the DOS days, that is exactly what I bought it for. I could improvise solos over songs my band was learning, try out daring things which have low odds of working but if they do, they would be cool, and I wouldn't be taking up the band's time while I experiment.

Eventually, BiaB released the StyleMaker to allow end users to make their own styles. Since I also play bass, drums, and some keys, I tried my hand at it, gave some away, and friends told me they liked them better than PGs. (Aren't friends great). I took out an ad in Electronics Musician magazine, and +30 years later, I'm still making them and selling them.

Making the styles is also a creative process, that I certainly wouldn't want to turn over to some AI bot. Why? It's time-consuming, I get lost in the zone so I don't notice the time passing, and when I'm done with a style and I'm proud of it, I'll offer it for sale. If I don't like it, I'll either make it work until I'm happy, or consider it a learning experience. It's important to know what not to do.

I think AI music would eventually have its place, but for me the fun of music is playing it myself.

I suspect there are a lot of other musicians who want to play, and wouldn't want the AI playing it for them.

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Bob "Notes" Norton smile Norton Music
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