The problem with asking how musicians are going to adapt is that this sort of technology is designed to put musicians out of business by making it easy to do without musicians.

There are strong market forces attempting to make music as fungible and replaceable as possible. For example, sneaking songs owned by Spotify onto your Spotify playlist, in order to minimize the amount of money that needs to be paid to artists. Musicians have always gotten the short end of the stick. There's this quote from Fux's counterpoint text from the 17th century:

Perhaps the hope of future riches or possessions induces you to choose this life? If this is the case, believe me you must change your mind; not Plutus but Apollo rules Parnassus. Whoever wants riches must choose another path.

But these forces have always existed in some form or another.

There are a number of ways to innovate. Most importantly, you need to keep abreast with what people are willing to pay for.

Radio destroyed much of the market for pianos, accordions, and C saxophones. Records replaced sheet music. The internet replaced an evening listening to a band.

In those cases, markets largely ceased to exist. But niche markets continue to exist, and it's possible to continue doing something like live music. The trick seems to be able to find them once the old ecosystem is gone.

People have said to embrace AI, but obvious we'll need something more than that, if we want to distinguish ourselves from all the other people who also embrace AI. Doing what everyone else is doing isn't quite the same as innovation, but you may win the lottery that way. wink

-- David Cuny
My virtual singer development blog

Vocal control, you say. Never heard of it. Is that some kind of ProTools thing?