Is Ableton Live getting AI? Robert Henke calls AI “the big development of our times.”
Ableton Live Getting AI?
Like it or not, AI is finding its way into more and more aspects of our lives. That includes DAWs. Apple recently added a whole suite of AI tools to Logic Pro 11. There’s also RipX DAW, a digital audio workstation with AI as a core function. It makes sense that AI will eventually come to other DAWs. That includes Ableton Live, as hinted at by co-creator Robert Henke.
Ableton Live Getting AI: “It’s become much harder to do something radically new”
“We have tons of ideas regarding things we would like to do because our competitors are doing them and the market demands it,” Henke said referring to Ableton Live in an interview with MusicRadar.
“Of course, the situation is different nowadays because there’s so much interesting software out there that people have high expectations regarding quality and functionality and it’s become much harder to do something radically new.”
Ableton Live Getting AI: Something Radically New
That “something radically new” that Henke is referring to is, of course, AI. “In broader terms, it is clear that AI will change a lot of things in the music industry and already has.”
How that will manifest in Ableton Live is not yet apparent, though. “We are looking at ways to incorporate (AI) into our workflow in a way that’s inspiring, beneficial and interesting,” he said.
What can we expect to see in Live? Henke didn’t specify, but AI-assisted effects and musical phrases, such as in Logic Pro and plenty of third-party plugins, are a good bet.
How Will AI Change Music?
Beyond just Ableton Live getting AI, Henke sees artificial intelligence as playing a major role in the creation of music going forward: “It’s the big development of our times and as important as sampling or the development of laptop computers and will definitely change the way that music is made.”
He doesn’t, however, think that AI will completely replace humans as the force behind new music.
“We’ll understand that certain things will be taken over but in 20 or even 50 years people will still like to plug a single oscillator into a filter.”
How do you think AI will change music production? Do you think it’s a force for good or will it make everything just terrible? Let us know in the comments.
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