[dietrichepp]

Currently working on an album.

Software I use for songwriting: mostly Logic, also Dorico. Voice memos. Rhymezone sometimes. Rhymezone seems less and less helpful as I go on. I hardly use text editors for lyrics, paper seems to work a lot better. I end up with a lot of scribbles all over the paper.

AI suggestions for songwriting seems a bit like turning on cheat codes in a game. Cheat codes will help me beat a game faster. The cost? The game is less fun, and the whole reason I play games is to have fun. Songwriting is an activity for me, like gardening or running or something like that. Or putting together a jigsaw puzzle. If you had an AI assistant that could help you put together a jigsaw puzzle, would you use it?

There are AI tools around and some work decently well:

- Logic has session players. I don’t think they’re AI, but they are decent at putting up the skeleton of a song.

- AI-powered stem-splitting tools help you pick apart songs you like and figure out how they work.

- AI-powered song mastering tools produce dubious output. I have gone through multiple iterations with AI-powered tools and ended up happier just mastering the song myself.

LLMs seem like the great failure here.

[Ancapistani]

> If you had an AI assistant that could help you put together a jigsaw puzzle, would you use it?

It depends.

Is the puzzle a modern commercial jigsaw puzzle? Of course I wouldn't use it.

Is the puzzle a unique ancient Sumerian tablet that was just accidentally shattered and in pieces on the ground, but I need the information on it immediately? Absolutely.

[littlekey]

I'm not sure if this helps further the analogy or not, but I would use an AI if it could help with the annoying first part of the puzzle where you just have to spread out the pieces and flip them all over.

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[dietrichepp]

I don’t see how this would help me, sorry. It looks kind of like a more advanced thesaurus or something. I understand why some people might like this sort of thing but it’s kind of the opposite of what I want.

I’m not using RhymeZone less and less because RhymeZone could be better at what it does. I’m using RhymeZone less and less because the problem that RhymeZone solves is becoming less and less relevant to my process.