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Ben Rogerson

“No one's listening to a song going, ‘I used to like this, but he didn't make that sound’. And if they do... those aren't the people you want to be serving anyway”: Barry Can’t Swim has no time for people who have an issue with artists using synth presets

Barry Can't Swim.

Given the looming threat of AI, you’d have thought that the ‘is using synth presets cheating?’ debate would be over by now. Making your own music with pre-rolled sounds is practically ‘grafting’ these days, isn’t it?

Some would still argue, however, that if you don’t create your own patches from scratch then your tracks are somehow diminished, however good they are and however many people like listening to them.

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