Survey shows the Love/Hate relationship Music Producers have with AI

A new survey of 1,533 music producers dug into their perspectives and experiences with AI in music production

Conducted by BPB, it offers a data-driven overview of the state of AI, its implications for the future of the music industry, and the love/hate relationship that producers have with it.

Many music producers have already tried AI music production tools, with 86.6% saying that they will eventually replace at least some of the tools that they currently use.

But 73.1% of surveyed also think that AI music generators will at least partially put them out of a job in the future.

Areas where producers see AI taking over include:

• Effects and mixing processing
• Mastering services available online
• Remix and demix processing
• Sound synthesis and music generation.

Key takeaways from the Music Producer AI survey

• Only 17.3% of surveyed producers think negatively about using AI in music production.
  • Almost half (47.9%) are neutral.
• 36.8% of surveyed music producers already use AI tools in their music production workflow.
• 30.1% of music producers are planning to try using AI tools soon.
  • 15.7% of surveyed producers had already tried AI tools and were disappointed by their quality.
• 86.6% think that AI music production tools will replace at least some of our current tools.
• Almost a third (29.7%) of music producers fear AI music tools could lead to less originality.
• AI mixing and mastering tools are currently the most popular, with 28.66% of surveyed producers using them already.
• Copyright is the most controversial topic regarding AI music. 36.8% of producers think that AI-generated music should be public domain.
• 73.1% of surveyed producers think that AI music generators could replace human music producers in the future, at least to some extent.

Read the full survey and analysis on BPB here.

Bruce Houghton is the Founder and Editor of Hypebot, a Senior Advisor at Bandsintown, President of the Skyline Artists Agency, and a Berklee College Of Music professor.