A few weeks ago, The Beatles released a “new” song with John Lennon on the track. This was possible because of new technology to “rip” separate tracks into stems. Beats / from Beatmakers created that word - stems / to package a session into individual tracks or folders. That’s where and when I got “hip” to the term.
A year or so ago I watched a video interview with Giles Martin, son of George Martin. I did a post about this. His discovery of this technology came from British Intelligence, their work in the field of audio forensics.
In the USA, there’s been investigation for decades pertaining to audio forensics. Mainly how many shots were fired and where did they come from, pertaining to the JFK assassination with Lee Harvey Oswald. When you could see an audio wave form on a screen, it highlighted the mystery.
I’ve been investigating this ai thing and come to the conclusion that it’s good and evil. The evil, for me is the aspect of humans being less creative than they are. It’s already horrible (imo) Just speaking about music, it’s mostly stolen/duplicated/sampled sounds, ideas, forms, samples, drum machine beats. All formalized for the deaf of hearing. Again (imo) *** there are always exceptions to my rules.
In the last 3 days I’ve discovered several ai platforms that are “mindblowing”
Text = Video / Text = Voice / Text = Music —— crazy ai technology.
This platform called Rip X is another crazy technology. It rips a stereo wave/ mp3 into not one file/track but as stems. Drums, Bass, Guitar, Vocals etc. You can then remix or do what you want with it. It’s a DAW in its own ai being.
For the last couple years there have been YouTube post with isolated tracks, John Bonham’s drum track etc. This platform takes that stuff to a different level.
I anticipate the arrival of remixes from Steely Dan records, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin and more. It also opens the gate for more sampling and stealing of human performance.
I’m still looking before buying into different ai programs I can use for my personal production, but this is probably one I’ll pay the $99 for.
This YouTube clip I posted shows…. you can rip vinyl or wave files.
Some video “influencers” only talk about ripping ai generated music. The are many excellent videos that go into detail about this platform. Another amazing thing about ripx as its own stand alone DAW is its ability to replace a sound with another sound. I’ve seen it work, yes, you can replace guitar with cello etc….there’s also effects and those fun little goodies.
Enjoy the view = BaDaBoom
First of all thanks for actually having a brain and being committed to writing intelligently about music and drums. I'm not going to bore you with a description of myself except to say I'm committed to music and drums. AI technology is nothing but stealing...... No respect for creativity or for skills apart from copy and paste. It's become a copy and paste world. Please continue the intelligent commentary it's something I've thought about doing myself except my fear is no one will ever listen