Mark Morgon-Shaw

https://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/projectsam-symphobia-2 https://www.soundonsound.com/news/lumina-projectsam-now-shipping https://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/projectsam-symphobia-4-pandora

I prefer Symphobia over Albion One, they have a load of free stuff over at the Projectsam site so you can try selected instruments risk free. The interface is much better on Sympobia

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Yes, I've tried all of them. I am a lifelong Mercury user since whichever version it first introduced with many years ago. Even before themes were introduced the basic GUI was closer looking to Mercury than anything else so it's kinda been the default since the dawn of the App. Mercury Classic is obviously the closest design but it's the flatness that bugs me not the colours. I don't like dark GUI's nor overly colourful ones. I feel no need to colour anything, I don't even use the console view for anything other than looking at buses .

I don't think it's a case of liking / not liking but for me at least it makes it harder to work with during long sessions so it's more of a practical thing. If was flat and easier to read I'd be fine with it, but it isn't IMHO

You can do everything totally in the box, even the guitars.

I use somewhere between 300- 400 reference tracks a year You can grab them from straight from Youtube at 256k which is perfectly fine for referencing purposes. Most of what what makes a great mix isn't in the super Hi-Fi stuff anyway ( i.e. a great mix will sound great on a crappy radio as well ) It's much more about arrangement , mix balancing , midrange translation, production tricks, sound design etc. than it is ultimate fidelity of the file.

No it won't do anything within the App to optimize your PC - It will just help you identify what's causing the issue On this system I have now it was the NIC causing clicks and pops. On the system before it was a sensor inside the case , and as soon as I disabled it the issues were gone. So...it's a case of looking at what it's telling you and doing some digging

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And yet...... it sounds subjectively better written, performed and produced than most of the stuff in the songs forum here. Probably because it's trained on professionally produced music. Personally I don't think we're going to see human music replaced by AI music, but it will be another genre alongside all the others. Most people follow the artists/bands they like because they're invested not only in the music but in the person/people too. AI could write the best song in the world but if there's no human story or personality behind it listeners can't get as invested - I've followed some my favourite bands since the 80s &90s through all the ups and downs, breakups, comebacks etc. It's all part of the rich tapestry of their story which we connect with on a human level. What I predict will happen is we'll get a boom of novelty AI generated songs which lots of people will think is cool for a little while but once the novelty wears off it will become a bit same old, same old and people will naturally gravitate back to the actual artists they admire. Like someone said above if anyone can do it then there's no real value. Things have value that are scarce. If you commodetise it then it loses it's appeal. In my little niche of the industry some folks are worried that people writing background music for TV might get replaced by AI. I'm not overly worried myself for a number of reasons, some of them musical, some of them practical , some ethical, and some of them legisaltive but basically for an AI to do what I do would not be that straightforward and even if it could there are changes that would need to be made to the legal copyright framework to allow it to happen. More than one Production Music company that I write for have instigated a " No AI generated material " policy because there is a risk of someone being sued if an AI model spits out a hook that's close to another copyrighted work for example. Overall I think it will have it's little day in the sun and then once the novelty wears off we'll be back to business as usual but hopefully with some better tools to help us - not replace us. Mark ( Sync Producer with music in over 1K TV shows )

The first music software I used was Type A Tune on the Vic 20 in 1982 https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/20923/VC-20 Type-a-Tune/ However the the first MIDI sequencer to use the paradigm of displaying notes that move left to right was likely the Fairlight CMI (Computer Musical Instrument) Series III, introduced in the early 1980s. This was one of the first digital audio workstations (DAWs) that included a graphical user interface for sequencing.

I think it would help a lot if the drums and bass were playing in time together

I've had stuff that's been viewed millions of times on Youtube and the royalties were under £10 so I don't think Bandlab are stealing your money

Welcome to the new 2d realm where everything is flat

My point is I don't want to pay for stuff I have no need for

My conspiracy theory is the whole Bandlab membership is a ruse A soft launch marketing tactic, to test the waters and see how many new subscribers they can pick up. They will 100% already know that there's a whole swathe of users out there who want a perpetual licence and nothing else. My prediction is after a community backlash they will pivot into a dual model of subscription alongside a perpetual licence ( which will be more than the the sub ) to appease the masses and make themselves look good. And this will have been the plan all along. People always want something they can't have. It creates desire. It they launched both together they would sell less as there would be more apathy.

I don't need any of those whatsoever

My thoughts exactly - When I look at it it , it makes my eyes feel like my glasses need cleaning

Not many I imagine. It's like owning a Swiss Army Knife and going to work with a toothpick

To be honest a lot of it sounds better the dated stuff I've heard made in Cakewalk here.

Yeah that's the Bandlab App , rather than Cakewalk/Sonar

Seems like it's a big chunk of their customer base though

Lol, no I am balding so keeping it buzz cut prevents the combover look