The genesis of AI in music production

While many manufacturers and tech companies enthusiastically point to their AI-driven wares as an indicator of their cutting edge status, explorations into computer-assisted music-making have been developing since at least the 1950s. It should be made clear at the outset that the term ‘AI’ when applied to music-making encompasses a few rather different things. There’s the development of so-called ‘smart’ algorithms that we now commonly encounter in mixing or audio editing plugins. Many of these actually lean on a wealth of human experience