Are you the CEO of suno AI?
"It’s not really enjoyable to make music now… it takes a lot of time, it takes a lot of practice, you need to get really good at an instrument or really good at a piece of production software. I think the majority of people don’t enjoy the majority of time they spend making music.”

ha... nope, and while i agree that it does take a lot of time to get really good at something like playing an instrument, i don't agree with the first and last sentence.

for me, the journey is the thing... it's my therapy and saves me from potential insanity. lol

For me as well. Even without playing instruments though.

All businesses can write off expenses, it's a part of doing business. But do you think it's better to have losses to offset the gains instead of having all the projects massive successes? A tax write off means you pay less taxes as you deduce the costs from your taxable income. But you only benefit the taxed amount. Like spending $1000 on a project that doesn't make it back and write it off won't benefit you nearly as much as not spending the $1000 in the first place.

yea, same difference money wise... but they don't know who's gonna step up and play their game, until they bring them in, put them on the track, and test them out.

they can break whoever they want... but not everyone wants to be broken.

Just saw you can customize bundles. The main ones I’m interested in are Pro Q4, Pro L2, Pro C2 and Pro MB. Not sure about Pro G. It’s a toss up right now between Saturn and WavesFactory Spectre.
Which are your most used FabFilter plugins?
Thanks!

Saturn, q4 and the gate. The gate I mostly used it to shape the sustain envelope.

I would say Spectre is quite a bit different from Saturn.

Thanks for this interesting post.

Musical homogenization isn’t something new or strange. In fact, it has always been part of human history. It helps define the style of a period, a culture, or a civilization. In Baroque Europe, for example, music followed similar rules: the same kinds of instruments, similar scales, and common ways of composing. The same thing happens in Hindustani music in India, where traditions are carefully passed down, and even in tribal societies, where music keeps community identity alive through repeated rhythms, scales, and sounds.

What makes our time different is something new: we can now access music and sounds from anywhere in the world, and from any period in history, instantly and for free. A while ago, I got lost browsing traditional instruments on Thomann and looked them up on YouTube. I found sounds I had never heard before, from places I barely knew existed. This is an incredible opportunity.

Of course, even today, the music industry has its own rules and trends, just like the courts of the Renaissance or ancient traditions. There is always a mix of popular taste, artistic research, and even some form of cultural influence or propaganda.

Yes, there is musical homogenization today. But maybe the real challenge of our time is something else: fragmentation. Music today is so diverse and spread out that it’s hard to find a shared direction. Everyone listens to something different, often alone, and it’s rare to find a group of people united by the same sound or style.

Could this be the real change, not that everything sounds the same, but that there’s no longer a strong, common voice that brings us together?

Your fractured comment hits hard. So many ways to consider this.

Are there any physical music scenes left anywhere or is it all online? My town is dead, but it was never about live music here. We barely played here back in the day when I was on perpetual tour. There used to be a good club and electronic scene here, but that’s withered. The collage towns used to have awesome turnouts for rock shows. Is anybody getting dirty and sweaty with each other in loud and dark environments?

I really believe there will be a return to organic and authentic local music experiences at some point. I’m curious to read about what’s happening elsewhere at the moment.