Artificial intelligence is generally thought of as a software tool. This is especially true when it comes to its uses in music production. Whether that be as a mixing assistant in a plugin like iZotope’s Ozone or one of Sonible’s Smart products, an in-DAW chatbot such as Safari Audio’s Meaw: Assist, or a contentious generative music platform like Suno, AI tends to stay confined to the intangible digital world. That is, until now.
We’re standing on the precipice of a new era of music production, one that moves neural networks and large language models out of the walled laptop garden and into the real world via hardware devices that we interact with physically.
