Thoughts on AI

[Skip Ellis]

I've messed with LALAL.Ai in the past and also the new BIAB version of stem splitters yesterday with less than stellar results. With both apps, I've tried to remove Wes Montgomery's guitar from Mp3 files and the LALAL.Ai worked sorta OK and the BIAB was pretty bad, and it occurred to me that, possibly, part of the problem is the fact that these were 60s recordings when things were not separated in the studio the way the are now and there was a bit of overlap which throws the AI off in determining which instruments are which. I know the Mp3 file is just an audio file, so not sure if it matters to the AI. any of you audiophiles out there have any thoughts and I totally wrong? I'll try to work with something a little more modern when I get a chance.

As an aside, I tried to get LALAL.Ai to remove the lead guitar from a Ventures tune once and it was a total failure - just too many guitars for it to deal with.

[PMB]

Results can vary greatly depending on your requests. In one attempt to extract the guitar part from a piano/guitar duo in LALAL.ai, I got far better results when removing the piano rather than selecting guitar.

[Skip Ellis]

Unfortunately, BIAB version lumps guitar and piano together.I did try Wes's 'One For My Baby' on LALAL.Ai and it wouldn't recognize the electric guitar so I switched to telling it to remove acoustic guitar and it was a little better.

[mr. beaumont]

AI art fucking blows.

[omphalopsychos]

AI art fucking blows.

Agree 100%, but I'm also optimistic for the low level improvements we will all get for free. Imagine you go to a jam or rehearsal with your band and record with just a phone mic in the room. I think what AI algorithms WILL get good at is going from that raw shitty recording to a decent studio sounding recording without you having to hire a sound engineer or do the mixing yourself.

This will not be as good as having professional sound engineer in the room but I see it on par with what a smartphone camera can do today vs 15 yrs ago.