I really do. How would you feel as, say Urs Heckmann, having yourself and your team develop a synth over 4 or 5 years, just to see AI slob flooding the market? And don't get me wrong: I am not against the general concept of neural network propability with LLM as access point in general.
But this "vibe coding" bs is just wrong on all levels. People let AI build 10 generic plugins with generic UIs in generic code within a week, then they make a YT channel pretending to test their own plugins ("This is the best synth ever!"). And the goal of course is to make some quick bucks. Give out for free to hook audience then charge for no work at all invested. But you get highly unstable code with little to no testing, resulting in a plugin that just does, what the "real" plugins already do. The usual sites are basically unusable currently, because you can hardly find anything that's not AI coded.
And all the knowledge that the AI generated code is based on, comes from the very same people who are now competing against AI slob. Uncountable bad Vital, Serum and pigments clones, unbearable "vintage" plugins that don't even come close to the hardware they lie to emulate.
But even in the area of serious development, the companies come up with extremely strange AI implementations. Newest example would be VSL with their Vienna Performer, basically a copy of Dreamtonic's Instrument X. Both based on the concept of you as a musician or composer placing notes with uninspiring placeholder sounds that then get rendered (which of course breaks your creativity, as you wait from like 10 to 40 seconds) into "real world" instruments.
This kind of approach is not the beginning, but the end of the music industry. Which makes me sad for those, who made a living out of quality software, and annoys me as a customer.
But this "vibe coding" bs is just wrong on all levels. People let AI build 10 generic plugins with generic UIs in generic code within a week, then they make a YT channel pretending to test their own plugins ("This is the best synth ever!"). And the goal of course is to make some quick bucks. Give out for free to hook audience then charge for no work at all invested. But you get highly unstable code with little to no testing, resulting in a plugin that just does, what the "real" plugins already do. The usual sites are basically unusable currently, because you can hardly find anything that's not AI coded.
And all the knowledge that the AI generated code is based on, comes from the very same people who are now competing against AI slob. Uncountable bad Vital, Serum and pigments clones, unbearable "vintage" plugins that don't even come close to the hardware they lie to emulate.
But even in the area of serious development, the companies come up with extremely strange AI implementations. Newest example would be VSL with their Vienna Performer, basically a copy of Dreamtonic's Instrument X. Both based on the concept of you as a musician or composer placing notes with uninspiring placeholder sounds that then get rendered (which of course breaks your creativity, as you wait from like 10 to 40 seconds) into "real world" instruments.
This kind of approach is not the beginning, but the end of the music industry. Which makes me sad for those, who made a living out of quality software, and annoys me as a customer.
