Most usable A.I. Tool Every Producer Needs Right Now. 

I completely get it and I learned how to make it, but on the other hand replacing people with this stuff morally it doesn't feel good to me, I wish we could use AI to do Laundry, clean the house all that boring stuff, and keep doing music with real people.

it was fairly obvious that stuff like this will come out at some point, but now that its here - craaaaaaaaaaaaaazy.

A few caveats. Legally release it as a cover is only one part. Some Distributors like Distrokid assist and help get the license from Harry fox as an example and allow the original writes to be paid through the MLC. Releasing for sale you will still need to get permission from the original writers for use of the mechanical license at a split cost with original writers. So just shoving a new vocal and saying legally releasing isn’t quite right. This only opens the door for the possibility to do it. ☺️

I watched two videos of this dude and i gotta say i love his sinister, negative energy, he is so real 😂

is it legal to straight up take someone's performance like this and essentially style transfer to a new voice? I'm not so sure.

When creating a cover song, it's essential to bring your own artistic interpretation to the work, whether through different instrumentation, a unique arrangement, or a distinct vocal style. This way, you can create a cover that pays homage to the original while still being recognized as a distinct and separate work. To summarize, using AI-generated vocals in a cover song is just one aspect of creating a legally recognized derivative work. Ensuring that the music arrangement and overall production are also substantially different from the original is equally important. thoughts?

Wow John I had to give it a quick try pretty damn cool. I uploaded the song "This magic moment - Benny king" and chose Nicole and isolated everything and wow.... Just incredible. 6 minutes and the AI created her singing it solo. Ai is so sick.

This is a bad idea. I have worked professionally in film productions involving music copyright clearances and I can assure you it is definitely not legal to take a vocalist's performance as your source material and then just modify it through an AI voice transformer or plugin and then claim it's 100% original. All the phrasing, rhythm and inflections etc. of the original performance are still there and will easily be recognised by the original artist.

I’m afraid I have to respectfully disagree with you on this Jon. The A.I generated vocals had no life or air to them

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It's the way the music industry is going. There is fakeness everywhere from live stars singing to backing tracks, crap singers just pitch corrected and live recorded pop stars then having the performance mixed and enhanced before being put out as a live version. Over the years a lot has changed from vinyl records to Spotify. Most of the time it's the major players ripping off the Musicians who feel more under threat. I don't like this at all but if you view music as your business then you have to adapt and use whats out there good vid Jon, got a few moaners in the comments but thats normal for those who just moan and do nothing in life 😎

That’s really amazing 😊 I will try this out with my own vocal ;) there are a lot of possibilities 👌

Blown away!

Jon did you go deaf? The AI generates vocals sound like complete mumbo jumbo. The lyrics are completely butchered and half of the time there isn’t a distinct word being sung.

Let me guess. Its subscription based

ok wow this is actually really cool

Cool generative program. Allows the artist to be more creative.

Good to see you again Jon. Thanks for this one. I'm going to check it out.

Welcome back

I tried it with my vocals , sounded like a bloke but a bit female. Long way to go!

Problem is not to create music - its to be heard. No one cares about 1'000'000 covers from 1'000'000 -> we've entered the era of commodification. What counts is how you can access the market. Do you fit the current trend? Do you have a machine that pushes you.

This is really great tool. 100% agree. You make a super song, and than it hits you, I need a great femal vocal in my case. Who should I call, hmmmm. Nahh, they're no good. Now you have all this on your disposal. Fantastic.

The free version is used up and gone before you can properly asses it. Not really that fabulous and very overpriced for what you get. You might think you have access for a month if you pay for a month, like the pricing structure says, but the truth is, for $25, you get 10 hours of conversion time, spread over a month, NOT unlimited time over a month. By the time you've experimented and auditioned the different singers and settings in an average song, you're outa time. For this price, this is a a huge rip off. Especially when you consider what an artist gets per download for their entire song, which includes writing, composing, performing, mixing and mastering for usually 79 pence per song. even at 1/10 of the price it would be a ripoff.

So excited to make money and so very happy to reedit the work of an artist. Kongrats sir! Lolz

Superb one jon bro🎉

You are still using the original recorded track but altered with AI, are you sure its legal? i do know for a cover this is not allowed.

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This is cool

It's funny and kind of contradictory that you make this "promoting AI video" while wearing a t-shirt that says: WE NEED ART. If you think we need ART then get real, make music, make art and stay away from AI. And if you can't afford a singer then be creative and find another way to get there, that is ART.

The next problem will be that record companies will create their own AI based tracks and use Spotify to fill the lists to play with and directly get the income from it without the use of any hired artist at all. 🙂. But I agree, the world has been upside down entirely in the music industry. But nevermind, its like ages, we all died when the sampler start to sample beats and vocals, we all had a heart attack when CDs got copied by thousands and we thought the world would end when spotify took all the royalties and paid pennies for streaming, we will see what happens, I think younger producers will make copies over copies and the usual way of creating of something entirely new will fade away soon.

Hey buddy, I’m planning to buy Mac book pro for music making. I’m a music composer. M3 pro with 36GB RAM good enough ?

is this studio is at his home or still in that building?

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Instantly started to play around with the conversions when I came across your video. It produced mixed results with some being pretty close with minor artifacts and others being almost unusable. I think this tool would be better suited for shorter acapella conversions rather than converting a full length already isolated acapella. I also played with converting female vocalists to male covers which spat out similar results. AI tech is certainly getting better however I think as of right now, to do this sort of thing would cause more headaches when trying to edit them in order to create something consistently usable.

Buddy, you cannot steal someone's performance like that. You did derivative work based on the mechanical rights. You don't understand mechanical/recording vs publishing/writing rights. And you push this to the whole world, damn dude...

Did you finish the studio? one thing i've noticed is speakers, the other i ceiling. this is not done properly. And the side panels should be mounted to the walls. if you want - i can give you some tips how to make it sound even better.

I wish you could input the melody you want ..

Jon you should hide your email not sure if you meant for you to show it

I remember when playing digital songs as a DJ was taboo. The whole you’re not a DJ unless you play records crap. Y’all remember that? Get over yourselves technology only moves in One Direction.

we are next

Wow. Kenne ich noch gar nicht. Kenne nur Lalals

Jon, have you tried Logic's stem splitter yet?

Producers that embrace the technology will always be able to carve out a spot for themselves. The combination of technology and creativity/skills and will make us better, more creative and productive. My recent example is that i had an instrumental version of a song I was working on for a long time but I couldn’t get the right vocal melody. I uploaded my music to one of the AI sites who then took my lyrics and music and created the top line which was great. So this is an example of where I was really aided by the song. I had a singer sing it and the song was accepted for a sync listing.

Maybe this is why you don’t get signed? Looking for shortcuts at every step

Das Problem damit ist, daß man zumindest bei einem Pop-Projekt dann die Sängerin auf eine Bühne stellen muss. Bei Dance ist das natürlich etwas anders.

I have a feeling ur gonna take this down

You get to keep Spotify royalties 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Yeah, how generous 🤣🤣🤣🤣

You should seriously look up an Artist called “Against The AI” sincerely-Not Ready Yet

time to get the guitar out of the closet and get into a heavy metal hairband before its too late , lol

Ai is here to stay. This is a site where you actually still have to do some work afterwards, but take for instance suno, you don’t need to do anything. I like it and the idea of ai singers it’s easy. Most producers/artists will resent it for now. Eventually it will become the norm and the scope of art in general is changing / shifting either you go with the flow or you stay behind. Your job is already gone as is - all pros will have to adapt

Do you realize that you are kinda digging your own grave with this? You as a producer might like the fact that you can now generate AI voices and don't need a singer with all the troubles involved. But do you realize that with promoting this, singers, labels etc. can do exactly the same thing with the beats you create? AI might not be at that level yet, but it's what you said, it's still at the beginning. What happens in 5, 10, 20 years from now?

Covers work better than original music? I like you John but surely you didn’t just say that, the original vocal track is a Tracey Chapman song from 1988, cool software but lets retain respect for writers 😄

There's other AI lurking ...💀💀💀

Please support real creatives instead of ai, especially if you like it to be a music business when your kid grows up. And it’s more important to have all of the rights yourself, a lot of the companies nowadays try to sneak in more rights in the fine print. Get a lawyer to always look at the fine print regarding royalties and music rights.

or, just use Replay and UVR for free :P

7:24 "covers just work way better than original music". That's the bad news. And it was before AIs.

Same thing happening with visual arts. Platforms being spammed with fake art created by talentless, lazy hacks, essentially draining all the joy out of the creative process. Low hanging fruit.

How to get the project files in the first place?

all those "producers" glorifying AI - until they realise they are not needed anymore 😂😂😂😂 good luck, hope you have plan b, all the best

I think you need publishing rights and a Mechanical license...

😂😂😂😂 are you sure about royalties?? Are you a musician that supports ai vocal machine??

You still need to obtain copyright from the publisher if not original song / lyrics

BS, No producer needs this. Yeah, it's not such a good deal, in fact it's well worth steering clear of this. Give it a while, it'll be free. The high price subscription cost is a joke, you could hire an actual person and get a much better result. If it were free, I might use it, although only for backing vox, if I was stuck. It definitely isn't worth the cost and the pricing model is deceiptful.

puh. is sowieso schon alles vollgemüllt mit cover und remixes und interpolations .. wenn die leute wenigstens mal originals machen würden..

Just unsubscribed

Stealing someone else’s vocal performance and just swap the tonal sound of the voice, is not only unethical but could also land you in legal trouble. The original singer might not be one of the writers and wouldn’t be compensated.

not cool. I do agree on using any contemporary technology but this is rip off. Why would you do this?

the vocals is so lifeless...so robotic....so absurb to put robots to replace the emotions, the being, the presence of a human voice.

8:40 "singing like they were drunk" twisted, ugly IMHO. The technology is impressive, but do you think that sounds appealing? They are singing in the wrong key here and there!

I actually hate this A.I. Stuff and I’d rather go back to the 1980’s or 90’s.

Goodbye popmusic

AI and writing music... have fun with it... I'll skip this. Good luck with the copyright strikes.

Jon my friend, I have really enjoyed your content for years but you can’t be both pro AI and Against the AI (which is one of your artist projects). Let’s not promote the AI in this mess of a time for all musicians! This is not good 🙏 as musicians, we’re all in danger so let’s promote each other as opposed to AI. Thanks

Any AI tool that helps make songs? Or remixes

Sounds weird.

Nothing legal about that.

hmmmm, its a good tool every now and then but every singer brings along an extra layer of musicality, by real humans. AI cannot do that. With just AI, music would sound the same all the time. Dont get me wrong, im not against AI but if u as an artist want to express something specific, an unique feeling, create a specific atmosphere, AI cannot deliver this. It always spits out average..... AI algorithms are based on the use of the average. Having said that, i still might try and use this vocal tool, and lets see what happens

All this is problematic, not only if one wants to make money or become famous with producing (why should I?). The more annoying and desturbing side will be that we will have less and less access to authentic, meaningful, original high quality art. Making art is a religious act, it's a way of connecting beyond the expectations and rules of society. It's religious but it's free of organised religion. Whatever AI ( wich doesn't exist, it's AT - artificial thinking ) will be, it will never be intelligent, I mean, It's the Mac-Donalds of art! It's an empty box, it's only about the looks, the taste, the form and when art ... is only about the outside, the technique, the form IT'S EMPTY, MEANINGLESS, it's.... it's MEANINGLOSS. And ask yourself, Where is the joy, the fun, the personal journey, the deep meaning to be found in effortless, easy and fast producing? Hard work, going slowly, solving problems, communication, getting lost and finding new ways, celebration, tripping together is what thru creativity is all about. AI- or AT, as I prefer to call it, used like this makes you just a thief, and what is stolen will never taste like the thing you've earned, discovered, what you hear when the universe sings.... And the word "covering" has a totally other meaning when it's done with real people from a band.... EVERY DAY A COVER tastes like EVERY DAY FAST-FOOD ! I agree man IT'S INSANE HAHA! I don't mean this in a good way. Why don't you look for a human artist for your art-work?, But I guess you don't give a damn do you? As long as it's beautyful on the outside, easy, cheap and fast God-Damn! Well, don't come complaining when all the human society has become easy, cheap and fast....and totally superficial . This way of producing in so narcissistic, it's all about you, the "me", no communication, no working together, "nothing to go thru" as you put it, the others are a problem!!! Where is the time where music started, in our caves, after the hunt, belly's full, and we celebrated that....together, the joy, the extacy.!!!! NOT ALL EVOLUTION IS PROGRESS.... today? I don't need anybody... Now what's there to celebrate? I'm on the way of becoming the loneliest person in the world.... Great isn't it? But hey.... chear up, there's always the hope it will make me money......

Thanks Jon, (ps your email is visible)