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I'm personally glad to see they didn't add anything AI. Suno already exists for that market, IMO.
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Can you elaborate on the AI powered workflow(s) you'd like to see in Ableton? As a creative I'm quite averse to AI integration in tools like this but as a technology enthusiast I do see a future where AI can be employed here for efficiency without compromising creative integrity.
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opposite feeling here.
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There's a JS SDK which would probably be enough to DIY it
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Is there even any such software?
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Ardour (https://ardour.org/) has an MCP server.
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The most recent release of Logic Pro has an Intelligent Assistant and also Splice released a new DAW called Splice Create that is agent-native.
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Yes. http://Tonos.music is the one I've been working on. Timber is a competitor that got $5m in funding from Adobe.

We seek to complement the user by giving them access to a mix and master engineer, not replacing them like with Suno. We've got a booth at MONO sf this weekend at the Midway in SF, come find us! if you're on the fence, email me for a promo code to the conference!

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How would you compare it to something like Landr or Ozone for mastering?

The problem I have with the AI mastering is it seems to be a bit clumsy with making the master fit the song. A lot of these tools just have simple buttons like "low, medium high", and seem to default to really squashing the dynamics to achieve maximum loudness. I have worked with both human mastering engineers and AI mastering, and I would say a decent human mastering engineer is noticeably better at feeling out the songs and finding the right balance.

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We're focusing more on the mix down part as that's more objective and less subjective and Landr/Ozone already exist so we're not starting off specializing in mastering. With additional time/funding what I'd like to build is the ability to let the user specify a specific reference track and not just an artist for the AI to use as a reference.

To your question though, it's a chatbot so tell it you want your track to sound like eg Polo and Pan, it'll look for ways to enhance it in their style rather than a simple small/medium/large knob. It'll load one of the built-in mastering chains and tweak the settings on those, or if you have a preference, you can tell it that too.

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