Originally Posted by JohnJohnJohn
The AI has gotten incredibly good indeed! But the question is, Do you want to write your songs yourself using tools like MasterWriter to assist or do you want AI to write them for you? Personally, I want AI to do more of my work so I have more time to do my art and hobbies.
Sounds nice, I suppose.

The last thing I want is for AI to help me write songs. I am not driven to produce content and only do so when I have something I like. I have a few hundred songs written over the last fifty-five years; if all I want to do is produce content, I’d start with those.

I do use AI a lot. ACE Studio lets me import MusicXML and assign voices that sing the words and music. Saves a lot of time making choral demos for myself and clients. I have a couple of other AI tools for this and that but none are used as part of my creative process.

I’ve had in mind a sprawling historic novel for a few decades. I was hoping that I could use AI to help me with the needed research. It’s generated so much misinformation—now we call it AI slop—that AI has proven absolutely useless for the task. Maybe it will get better but, for now, it’s not nearly ready for prime time.

An AI tool I would buy in a second is a music scanner that actually works—looks at a piece of printed music and knows the notes, rests, key changes, reads the words and clefs and gets it right. I have SmartScore, MusicToPDF, MuseScore and a few others. Sometimes they save some time but none of them are any damned good with the historical scores I use in my theater and church work. It’s often faster to just re-enter everything in Finale, one note at a time (my left arm is paralyzed from a stroke I suffered 17 years ago). Rearranging twenty pages of Gilbert and Sullivan this weekend for a show I’m conducting in August — looks horrible in SmartScore, dammit.

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