Uh oh. We whipped up an AI midi generator web-app for Musio.

If it took us 3 days to whip this up with existing tools, what are larger companies doing? It seems that a tsunami of technological change is coming for all of us. What are your thoughts?

I'm not a fan of this, but perhaps for a different reason than a lot of the other responses. I'm doubtful that this will pose a serious threat to strong, established composers. What I worry about is the next generation of composers. Once this thing gets good enough, it will

AI debate aside, targeting this at people who are “just getting started” didn’t sit well with me. This is not a good way to learn how to write and create music. Learning should be experimental, lots of trial and error to see what works & what doesnt.

Mike, this is horrific. Sorry. But honestly, you are going to destroy an industry, yet again putting more money into the hands of less people.

Genuinely, why do this? It's directly against our interests as composers and serves no purpose but to undermine the whole practice of creating music, something many of us dedicate our lives to. And for someone who makes music to be doing it, is very 'turkeys voting for Christmas'

This is not a good thing, sorry.

Really not sure how I feel about this as it could negatively impact the working lives of composers. Lots will just rely too much on the software doing all the composing for them which significantly lowers the barrier to entry in what is already a really competitive field.

Meaning no offense (and I don't mean to be a hater with this, just to give honest feedback) - but I wouldn't be enthused to tell people that I was a Musio user (as I am now) if this was part of the software - it would bring whether I was actually writing my music into question.

Why would you do this to fellow composers?

Where’s the fun, reward or artistic merit in using this? Removing human creativity, promoting laziness. I notice you use the word ‘generate’ not ‘write’ or ‘compose’.