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AI (Artificial Intelligence) Creators Club!

Does anyone have (it seems) better luck with AI music by requesting songs in language other than English? For me that seems to be more likely to jump out of the 'samey samey' bin.
sorry no one has responded sooner (i don't check into the thread often enough myself)!

you ask a great question, but i can't answer it: i've only used songer (Songer – Personalized Songs) for a couple of novelty songs and i wanted/needed english language.
(i speak english only.)

hopefully, someone who knows (or who can advise) will see your post and respond.
 
Wow, first post on this thread since FEB 25!! I wonder if AI usage has become so mainstream that there’s no new news to post, or…?

I wonder how many times a day the average TB’er uses AI at home, at work? 😃🤷‍♂️
 
I’m just catching up on this thread, lots of great ideas to explore.

One thing I tried and am enjoying is asking Gemini how to set up patches in my Helix to get certain sounds. If you input what gear you’re using (instrument, pickups etc) then it takes the extra info into account. It’s been amazingly helpful so far, as I’ve received answers I was looking for plus useful background info about how/why something works. As is normal with AI, need to check and correct sometimes, but it catches up.

Planning to use it to help configure my DAW, same idea
 
I use AI a lot in my personal life, but when it comes to music I only use it for show flyers. Some will inevitably say "you're taking the money out of artists pockets when you use AI!" Some people, maybe, but not me. We don't make enough as a band to have someone create a flyer for every show for us, I always did it myself. So AI saves me time creating what I used to, and it looks better too. AI has limitations with generated text though, so I usually have to fix a thing or two in photoshop.

Here's the prompt for the next upcoming show, the image it created, and then my photoshop fix.

"1/23 is "National Pie Day". Can you make a show flyer that's showing emo kids enjoying national pie day? Event: Midlife Covers @ Villari's Tagline: Pop-Punk & Emo All Night! 1/23/26 @ 7pm Villari's Lakeside 2375 Sicklerville Road - Sicklerville, NJ"

Notice the text on the sign on the sable got screwed up in generating the image, so I fixed it.

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I use AI a lot in my personal life, but when it comes to music I only use it for show flyers. Some will inevitably say "you're taking the money out of artists pockets when you use AI!" Some people, maybe, but not me. We don't make enough as a band to have someone create a flyer for every show for us, I always did it myself. So AI saves me time creating what I used to, and it looks better too. AI has limitations with generated text though, so I usually have to fix a thing or two in photoshop.

Here's the prompt for the next upcoming show, the image it created, and then my photoshop fix.

"1/23 is "National Pie Day". Can you make a show flyer that's showing emo kids enjoying national pie day? Event: Midlife Covers @ Villari's Tagline: Pop-Punk & Emo All Night! 1/23/26 @ 7pm Villari's Lakeside 2375 Sicklerville Road - Sicklerville, NJ"

Notice the text on the sign on the sable got screwed up in generating the image, so I fixed it.

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Very cool use of ‘the tools’.

For me, it’s become so normalized in that I use AI daily, both professionally and personally. In my scope, I use a variety of AI tools in part of a broader process not as a replacement for the skills required to perform the activities (design, coding, testing, etc.) it accelerates what’s possible for sure and also increases the level of quality.

I don’t use for music creation, but do use for splitting tracks/stems for learning cover songs.
 
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I use AI a lot in my personal life, but when it comes to music I only use it for show flyers. Some will inevitably say "you're taking the money out of artists pockets when you use AI!" Some people, maybe, but not me. We don't make enough as a band to have someone create a flyer for every show for us, I always did it myself. So AI saves me time creating what I used to, and it looks better too. AI has limitations with generated text though, so I usually have to fix a thing or two in photoshop.

Here's the prompt for the next upcoming show, the image it created, and then my photoshop fix.

"1/23 is "National Pie Day". Can you make a show flyer that's showing emo kids enjoying national pie day? Event: Midlife Covers @ Villari's Tagline: Pop-Punk & Emo All Night! 1/23/26 @ 7pm Villari's Lakeside 2375 Sicklerville Road - Sicklerville, NJ"

Notice the text on the sign on the sable got screwed up in generating the image, so I fixed it.

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Yes, text creation is still an issue but its great for image creation and ideation.

I've been making book trailers recently using ltx studio and combining stock footage in After Effects, while also using the stock effects in AE and some from Video Copilot. I still can't get exactly what I want out of ltx but it gives a really good approximation/alternatives while drastically cutting down on the cost of ideation, asset creation, and making the process more affordable for self publishing authors, once a template is established.
 
Some will inevitably say "you're taking the money out of artists pockets when you use AI!"


I was talking to a friend the other day, who is a script writer at a film studio, and he was saying that a persistent irritation amongst the writing staff, is that the storyboard artist treat the script as if it were suggestions - and instead of conveying what the writers have instructed, are constantly going off piste, and inventing stuff that undermines / contradicts the actual creators vision (apparently the storyboard artists they've hired are young, frustrated writers / directors).

I suggested teaching them a lesson, by showing up to the next meeting, having used his script as prompts for Generative A.I. to create storyboard "suggestions" (knowing that in many cases, producers, and directors will imprint on the first version they like, and any "temp" material they get used to supersedes the bespoke piece that somebody has been slaving over in the mean time).

It took me a moment to appreciate I had just advocated using A.I. to replace an actual artist, in a field I highly respect (certainly the artists that are outstanding in that field - even the handful of really good artists that have swapped pen & paper, for tablet & software), and an industry that I deeply believe needs to value human creativity, over cheap sausage factory convenience.


I think It's dangerously easy to inadvertently side-line a potentially valuable creative partnership, whether for reasons of perceived convenience, economics... or revenge :-) and once the people writing the cheques has deemed that they don't really see a difference, or that the difference isn't worth the additional cost, good luck going back to the old way of doing things.

But that's in a professional industry; like you, I have no problem using Generative A.I. to perform a task I would have otherwise begrudgingly had to perform myself - a task in which at no point would the professional services of a 3rd party have ever been engaged.