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This particular video is about AI mastering and I only happened upon it because I'm subscribed to his channel from an older synth demo video. There's a tiny bit of knowledge on music production left in my brain (Think analog 16 track tape era) which raises the flabbergastation factor when watching this modern stuff.

This is like being permitted to aspects of how the sausage is made that regular bozos were never meant to see.

It's a whole continuum of abilities that's complex af and alien to anyone not involved in music production. Very interesting, although much of it is very very Greek to me.

This particular video is about AI mastering and I only happened upon it because I'm subscribed to his channel from an older synth demo video. There's a tiny bit of knowledge on music production left in my brain (Think analog 16 track tape era) which raises the flabbergastation factor when watching this modern stuff. This is like being permitted to aspects of how the sausage is made that regular bozos were never meant to see. It's a whole continuum of abilities that's complex af and alien to anyone not involved in music production. Very interesting, although much of it is very very Greek to me.
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I only happened upon it because I'm subscribed to his channel from an older synth demo video

I didn't know you were into synths. I've been deep into synths my whole adult life, but I have decided I that I don't want to deal with the old analog classics any longer. I definitely prefer digital or at least analog modelling synths these days because you can only go so far with sawtooth and square waves and low-[ass filters. I have a severe case of GAS (Gear Acquisition Syndrome) and own a ghastly number of synths today. I do use the vast majority of them often.

Year mixing and mastering are complex and dark arts. I use a couple of VST plugins to help with the mastering work, but I did try out an AI mastering service and was not impressed. My sound is unique to me and my music so I'll stick with doing it myself so it matches what I like. Plus I do really like my recording and mixing/mastering workflow I have developed so it's not too bad a process for me now. Others might think my mastering is total shit, but music is subjective so I don't really care what some random producer says unless they're paying me.

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Most of this goes way over my head but it still fascinates me to no end. Read why below.

I do find synths awesome, just like the people that can use them and are able to unlock their potential. But I'm not a musician and the only real synth I ever owned was a Korg I saved from the refuse collection decades ago. I think it was this one: https://pic8.co/sh/W5T1YG.png It was in miserable shape. The side pieces were missing and some of the plastic keys were destroyed and partly missing. I took it home anyway, powered it up and hooked it up to my hifi. Oh the sounds that thing could produce.

Back then I was in the orbit of some musicians and one of them had his own little chaotic studio. He used a C64 with a MIDI interface and later an Atari ST. With its built in MIDI ports it was the machine of choice for quite a few, albeit far more professional, production outfits in Germany. On the MIDI side there was the trusty Roland MT32, a few Keyboards and the rest of the production was a 16 channel mixer, a 4-track TEAC and an 8-track Tascam tape machine. All put into a matte-black spray-painted console made from premium quality particle board.

We had some things in common. Our love for music and alcohol for example. Also, I knew which end of the soldering iron gets hot, which came in handy. Also learned a few things, like how to mike a base drum stuffed with comforters, how to clean cigarette-ash-filled mixer faders and to never let the inebriated near any equipment more sensitive than an anvil.

I dug in my CD pile and in case you're curious, I can try and rip some tracks created in that very studio appx. 30 years ago and make them available to download for you.

Edit: We used 'Cubase' and some other sequencer software on the Atari computers, AFAICR. It was mindbogglingly good for the time, believe me.