Here’s the killer quote from the press release imo: “Remember, we are a company whose products can only be used by people. If AI replaces musicians making music, then we’re out of business.”
Danny Sapko did a pretty thorough breakdown of the whole thing On his YouTube channel . The tl;dw is basically that D’Addario’s explanation still doesn’t add up. The ai mastering tool they claim is the culprit doesn’t do what they claim it did, and the track was likely made using Suno, and they’re just desperately trying to make the stink of it go away.
Weirdly, in the past couple of days I’ve been seeing a bunch of “boy, I sure love my D’Addario strings, don’t they sound amazing?” posts popping up on some of the guitar and bass subreddits. But I’m sure that’s probably just coincidence, and not just naked shameless astroturfing. /s
This doesnt explain anything though. Landr mastering doesnt cause time drift, it just applies compression and eq automatically and it definitely doesnt change or insert notes were there werent any previously.
Would be interested in the article but what a cancerous site for readability. Not that they really had much in the way of good articles for the past decade anyways.
I like the samurai guitarist theory. They didn’t use landr but suno mastering software. The difference being landr let’s the chatbot control normal mastering tools (eq, limiter, etc), whereas suno recreates the track with the changes done to it (which leaves it more vulnerable to ai hallucinations). Not that I like any of it especially their response, but that explanation accounts for just about everything including their insistence that it wasn’t artificially generated (if they have ignorance of how the suno mastering software works.
What annoys me is the exact same functions of the software would have performed the exact same alternations to the music in the pre-AI era with no fuss because it wasn’t called AI back then. But now any software applying any re-factoring to anything is “AI” and therefore pitchforks.
Good.
