I will often use the idea from AI or give it my own ideas and music/lyrics to see what it would do. I'll edit the parts, and deconstruct the song. I analyze what parts I can play, and if I determine that I can, I will play the piano, strings, guitars, and bass or the other option is to use Real Tracks. I often like the "feel" that AI imparts to it's version and I try to get as close to that same groove as possible.

It's part of my work flow. I will rebuild the song in BB and then select the style that best fits and rebuild the song from there. I've been using AI vocals for a lot of the productions with several of my songs in the latter part of 2025 being nearly all RT's and live tracks with AI vocals. AI vox have gotten so good even the professionals can't tell.

Since I write music for the purpose of sync placement, and sync libraries and publishers are currently 100% set against using any generative AI in the creation of the music and lyrics, I don't use it in the music I submit to my publishers. (mostly due to the inability to obtain copyright on machine created content) Most of that music, due to the restrictions and requirements of the publishers themselves, never gets posted here. So the things I post here are for fun and personal enjoyment 99% of the time, and that has no prohibitions against the use, or abuse of AI.

It's often a pretty big challenge to merge the AI music into something that I find to be a quality production. A lot of my songs that get started, never get finished because of some sort of glitch that ruins the project.

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www.herbhartley.com
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