There are entire orchestras that are paid almost the same salary as developers, yet the Vienna Symphonic Library lets a single person on a keyboard play an entire orchestra's score. Think about it: There are still _professional_ drummers out there, people just paid to drum, when drum machines exist. Perhaps playing music will be somewhat more automated in the future, but history shows that creating music will just become more complex and more interesting as we continue forward.

We're also DJs/producers, and as a DJ, I somewhat disagree with AI ever taking our music-creating jobs. Along with Agent Zero, Worldtown Soundsystem, and several other bands in the Philadelphia area, we make up a vibrant 'live electronic' scene united by the way we make music, not by the genres of music that we particularly choose to write and play. We're very far from computers being able to improvise (well), and 4-5 humans playing live instruments is just a crowd-captivating visual. But for now, I'm satisfied that there's a bit more to the depth of DJing than that what an AI can learn.ДЄgreed! I'm in a band called The Wonder Bars, and we play house music live with real instruments, but we also include drum machines. When the tool comes along that can style-transfer two songs in the same way that it can for images, then I will admit that AI is on the verge of taking our music-creating/music-playing jobs. That's just really scratching the surface of what a lot of 'live' DJs do (as they're called these days), as many are bringing instruments like drums and saxophones (see Big Gigantic), keyboards and vocoders (see Lorenz Rhode), their voice (see Gallago), and traditional African drums (see Black Motion), let alone simple song selection and set progression - 'reading the crowd'. One thing that it does do is take away the turntable GUI (or hardware) and replace it with a two-field upload form, radically reducing the amount of know-how required to perform beat-matching. Beat matching is the easiest part of DJing, and that's about all that this tool does, so I don't think it's solving any DJing problems specifically. At great risk of sounding haughty, as someone who's perhaps a bit more into the DJing scene than what's probably the average HN user, all of these sound horrible.

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