Music production used to be reserved for only the professionally-taught and the mildly wealthy. While nobody likes to admit this, music production can cost thousands of dollars—from investing in DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) software licenses to buying high-quality mixers and microphones.
Artificial intelligence is democratizing music production. Creating music doesn’t require a heavy budget or expensive gear anymore. With AI-generated music tools like SOUNDRAW, creativity is within anyone’s reach.
If you’ve ever wanted to create a hit song or turn your ideas into music, now is the best time to be alive.
Here’s how AI makes music production possible for everyone.
How AI is Democratizing Music Production
AI-generated music still relies on artistic creativity. Ideas are easier to create, and artificial intelligence can be used to make specific elements within a song—no, AI music tools don’t have to write the whole song!
Music is universal, which means that music production should be for everyone (but often isn’t due to costs, budget, or accessibility). Skills can also hold someone back from creating—for example, if I knew that I was a good rapper, but fell short on creating my own catchy beats.
AI is making it easier for anyone to create song elements. For example, if I wanted a “Snoop-like beat, but sounding like it was played in a 1960s Chicago blues bar” then the AI would know exactly what I meant.
From there, I could still create my own lyrics—however, AI helped to design the perfect backing beat.
Anyone Can Create Beats (Using AI)
There’s no limit on who can create using AI technology. SOUNDRAW allows anyone to create professional-sounding music by generating customizable beats with just a few inputs. This means music production is becoming much, much easier for anyone—the universal power of music only works if we can imagine that anyone in the world could access it. AI makes this possible.
Producers and artists can find the perfect beat straight away, or change their prompts if they’[d like to change it up and try something else. AI can come up with the perfect instruments, tempo, beat, rhythm: usually, AI-generated tools will do almost anything you ask them to do based on your prompt.
AI-generated beats and riffs can become elements in greater songs or albums. AI has made it easier for anyone to create a song element, instrument, feel, mood, or beat.
AI Doesn’t Let Great Ideas Fade
Artificial intelligence crosses the barriers that could have held great ideas away from their audiences. Using AI is fast and affordable. AI doesn’t let great ideas fade, but makes it easier for artists and creators to put their ideas into motion.
Finding the perfect, usable beat can take years. For some songs, it might even hold you up for decades—or could stop a song from being heard entirely. Instead, outsource some of the creative elements by using AI music tools.
Why should you wait to let your ideas amaze the world?
Let AI augment what you can create.
AI Creates a New Generation of Musicians and Artists
AI music is creating a whole new generation of musicians and artists.
A hundred years ago, many commonplace music recording technologies were viewed as new—and, yes, controversial at the time of their release.
AI-generated elements (like beats and melodies) might become just as commonplace as multi-track recording is today.
Artists don’t have to be limited by accessibility or costs. In fact, AI means that artists don’t have to be limited by anything—and with prompts and software, you can create anything you may be able to imagine.
What if releasing your art doesn’t have to wait?
AI Music Tools: Powerful Collaboration
In an podcast episode, rock legend Ozzy Osbourne admits that collaborating with AI could be the future—and that he views it as just another collaborator that could add value to a particular track.
AI music tools can be a powerful collaborator, whether you need the right beat or a second verse on the song. Machine learning means that AI is trained from various points in music history—and you can specify almost anything in your prompt, including asking for suggestions on tempo and pace.
While AI can be used to create entire songs, its real value lies in creating elements. Creators can use these elements in their music, usually royalty-free, without concerns about “getting it right” or “making a hit”—AI helps to do that for you.
AI Wouldn’t Have Created Rebecca Black’s Friday
Rebecca Black’s song Friday was a notorious disaster, using low-quality lyrics and inappropriate beats in an attempt to create a hit. Unfortunately, this was due to Black’s mother hiring a (human!) songwriting company to write and record a hit. The song bombed immediately upon its release, becoming the most disliked YouTube video.
Artificial intelligence wouldn’t have created Friday in quite the same way. This is because AI uses its database to create something that relies heavily on statistics: AI knows which beats and sounds are going to sound good, because it can compute this at a rate people can’t keep up with.
If you’re a songwriter or music creator, you’ll immediately see why hiring songwriters or beat creators can be risky—but why AI is becoming the popular choice and democratizing music.
AI-Generated Music: A World of Possibilities
AI-generated music opens a whole world of possibilities.
Music empowered with AI could change the future of music—and it’s already changing how producers and artists approach music creator and beat-making.
There’s no need to guess or go back-and-forth to know what will sound good. Insert your prompts, let the AI do its thing, and listen to the results. If you’d like a different verse, lyric, or beat, simply change the prompt. If you’ve ever been in a studio, you’ll know this is much easier than trying to argue with a producer behind a desk.
You can create music and specific elements like beats, even if you lack equipment or particular skill-sets. This means creators anywhere get to create, and focus their attention on the parts of the creative process they’re most comfortable with.
Get started with the future of music creation today!