The AI music field guide
Useful tools. Better sessions. Clearer decisions. A practical resource for musicians, producers and listeners finding their way through AI music.
Use AI for options. Keep the taste, edits and final call human.
A good handoff preserves more than the sound.
MIDI, audio or stems? Read the guide ↗01 / In the session
Concrete decisions for the moment after the first promising result. Prepare a voice, repair a join or send a session that opens properly.
All 20 guides ↗Session craft / Guide
A short decision system for sending a musical idea without sending someone a puzzle of missing sounds, wrong notes, or unusable edits.
3 min read 19 Sep 2026 draftVoice & identity / Guide
Why the performance edit should settle breath, consonant, and timing decisions before any pitch, voice, or style conversion.
3 min read 19 Sep 2026 draftSession craft / Guide
A practical way to find the click, bump, or missing tail at a loop boundary and choose a repair that keeps the groove alive.
3 min read 19 Sep 2026 draft02 / Find your question
What must survive when this leaves your computer?
↗02 / 10 piecesWhich performance and which permission are you carrying forward?
↗03 / 24 piecesCan you finish and leave with what you need?
↗04 / 55 piecesWhat does this evidence actually let you conclude?
↗05 / 23 piecesWho needs to approve what, and where is the evidence?
↗03 / Listen back
Artist experiments and technical milestones put today’s claims in context. Historical events are dated separately from our editorial drafts.
Explore the archive ↗Artists & releases / Archive
The artist's Bandcamp notes and studio page describe training the Spawn model live with volunteer singers rather than existing recordings.
3 min read 10 May 2019 event · prepared 16 September 2026Artists & releases / Archive
The band's own DFA notes and Bandcamp page describe building an AI process, then choosing which fragments became songs.
3 min read 30 August 2019 event · prepared 16 September 2026Tools / Archive
Apple's announcement and documentation describe bass and keyboard players that follow a chord track, plus a device-side stem splitter.
3 min read 7 May 2024 event · prepared 16 September 202605 / Read, compare, question
Listening & research / Guide
A fair comparison names the test set, prevents leakage, reports the metric and then listens for the artefacts that metric may miss.
3 min read 19 Sep 2026 draftTool decisions / Guide
Code, weights, training data and output claims are separate questions. MusicGen's published card is a useful real example of how to keep them apart.
3 min read 19 Sep 2026 draftListening & research / Guide
A small-group workshop needs a credit ceiling, authorship notes and time to listen back—not a race to create the most files.
3 min read 19 Sep 2026 draft
