AI is certainly changing the game. It's capabilities have made huge advances in just the last year and considering that just slightly over 3 years ago it was simply some futuristic dream.

Yes, PG Music is going to have to incorporate AI into BB in a much more substantial way or risk being left behind and risking irrelevance.

Here's an example of what I'm talking about. I've got a really well constructed song that I'm working on currently. Part me and part AI. It has undergone several reiterations and editing. I've used the BB tools like ACW to get it into BB so I can add real tracks. One of the things I'm seeing is that the real tracks stay with the BB style and are not fitting into the song very well. In the end, I'll most likely only be able to use a few tracks such as synth and B3 since they are the only ones that halfway fit or are useable. I'll end up recording the guitar parts myself to get the groove correct.
AI, properly incorporated, that can listen to the original input, and then seamlessly weave the real tracks, with their superb quality into the song, would be a great tool. Instead of being forced to find and choose a rigid style, what if BB, with AI guiding it, could cross the style boundaries and integrate the perfect style groove based on the song? The AI models out there are doing this now. Albeit, editing what it gives you can get rather tedious currently. However, they are working on integration into what appears to be a DAW format....... Coming soon, as they say. And if the leaps forward over the last few months are any indication of what is coming next in the "studio" version..... This could be a very big deal for AI.

I do agree with the OP on the yearly update schedule. A year in the AI world is an eternity ago. Suno for example was running version 3 one year ago and now they're on 4.5 and planning shortly to release "Studio". One year apart upgrades was cutting edge 4 years ago. It's going to require periodic updates for the product throughout the year just to stay one step behind. Assuming you want to stay current. PG should be using AI to help with the coding and bug testing required to accomplish this. (Maybe they are doing this now. IDK.)

So yes.... I believe PG is going to need to incorporate a more effective use of AI functionality into BB. They will most likely have an "off" switch for the purists in the group. But, yes, the genie is out of the bottle as they say.


Edit to add: another example. The BB stem splitter is good, but AI stems online is now capable of more individual stems and a much higher quality extraction. Some of those are seriously amazing.

Last edited by Guitarhacker; 09/07/25 06:14 AM.
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