From the archive · 2024 / 3 min
Logic Pro brought assistance into the session window.
Apple’s May 2024 update joined generative accompaniment and stem separation to familiar arranging decisions.
Read the retrospectiveHUMAN-LED AI MUSIC PRODUCTION52 PIECES / GUIDES + ARCHIVE
Music is made of choices.
Keep the
decision.
A working journal for producers, songwriters and musicians using generators, stems, DAW assistants and automated delivery without losing the thread of authorship.
THE WORKING SESSION / SOURCE IMAGE
20 new session guides
The work between
the sketch and the master.
Tempo maps, repaired MIDI, intentional transitions, fair listening and files that arrive ready to use.
01 / 7 pieces
Start with an intention
What am I asking the tool to do?
Follow this path ↗02 / 11 piecesShape the song
How does a sketch become an arrangement?
Follow this path ↗03 / 9 piecesListen before you fix
Which change actually serves the recording?
Follow this path ↗04 / 8 piecesKnow what travels with the audio
What needs permission, credit or disclosure?
Follow this path ↗05 / 8 piecesFinish the handoff
Can someone else use—and reopen—this project?
Follow this path ↗06 / 9 piecesTrace the idea
What did the original work actually show?
Follow this path ↗On the listening desk
Open the session.
Follow the idea.
Original screens and sources alongside the question each tool asks of a musician.
From the archive · 2017 / 3 min
NSynth made timbre a space to play in.
Google Magenta’s 2017 release suggested a neural instrument could be an audition room, not a replacement for one.
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Mixing / 2 min
Compare an automated master without chasing loudness.
A level-aware listening method for deciding whether the master serves the arrangement.
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Foundations / 2 min
Assisted or generated? Name the job before you name the tool.
A practical vocabulary for describing what the machine contributed—and what the musician still decided.
Read the guideNew in the archive · 2017–2024
Before the prompt
became a studio.
Neural timbre, editable phrases, stem separation and the arrival of assistance inside a DAW. Eight original-source retrospectives.
Read the archive ↗- 2017NSynth made timbre a space to play in.
- 2018MusicVAE treated a phrase as a palette, not a verdict.
- 2019Spleeter made the mix editable again—imperfectly.
- 2020Jukebox showed the cost of generating sound as sound.
- 2023MusicLM put the brief inside the generation loop.
- 2023MusicGen made control a research instrument.
- 2024Adobe’s Project Music GenAI Control asked for edit handles.
- 2024Logic Pro brought assistance into the session window.
Studio reference
A closer look
at the controls.
