I don't know. I've put out an album largely driven by modular synth, meaning that I've got many percussion elements driven literally by a machine, defeating the need for me as a human to play drums in perfect time (which I'm not good at)
But in doing that, I've spent years learning how the micro-timing of musical grooves work (some of it's very obvious, like how a heavy snare backbeat will lag slightly behind what the perfect time is, almost to the point of being a 'flam')
As a result, I was able to make an album that conveyed certain kinds of groove not immediately accessible to novice musicians (or drummers)… but given the same information, any schmoe could push a button and have a preset in his DAW produce the same effect.
I think to some extent if the person doesn't really understand the purpose or need for such an effect, their grasp of how to implement and craft it will be pretty loose. If you don't know why you're doing the effortless thing you're not going to guide it very well and your results will be kind of generic.
Rather than thinking of years of skill, maybe call it years of focus, or years of purpose? To some extent, we collectively respond to creations with a profound sense of purpose. If that purpose comes out of AI it will have to be something from the AI, and not simply a blind reflection of us and our crudest drives.
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I don't know. I've put out an album largely driven by modular synth, meaning that I've got many percussion elements driven literally by a machine, defeating the need for me as a human to play drums in perfect time (which I'm not good at)
But in doing that, I've spent years learning how the micro-timing of musical grooves work (some of it's very obvious, like how a heavy snare backbeat will lag slightly behind what the perfect time is, almost to the point of being a 'flam')
As a result, I was able to make an album that conveyed certain kinds of groove not immediately accessible to novice musicians (or drummers)… but given the same information, any schmoe could push a button and have a preset in his DAW produce the same effect.
I think to some extent if the person doesn't really understand the purpose or need for such an effect, their grasp of how to implement and craft it will be pretty loose. If you don't know why you're doing the effortless thing you're not going to guide it very well and your results will be kind of generic.
Rather than thinking of years of skill, maybe call it years of focus, or years of purpose? To some extent, we collectively respond to creations with a profound sense of purpose. If that purpose comes out of AI it will have to be something from the AI, and not simply a blind reflection of us and our crudest drives.