Project BIAS-X

I’m avoiding as much “AI” as I can until they have AI mowing lawns and doing dishes and shit so I have more time to manually fuck with guitar tone. I’m getting super old man about it. Hobbyists without time for their hobby ruin the hobby.

FUCKING YES. I want AI to make tedious things easier. Not to completely fucking destroy the things I love in life.
 
Looks like Bias FX with a Google Gemini wrapper. Not... particularly excited about this stuff, tbh.



Also, guys, NDSP Tim Henson much?

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It seems we are moving toward an outcome where the next generation of guitar player will be waiting on statistics to tell them if they sound good or not.
Then the forum debates won’t be about tubes vs digital , or Kemper vs NAM etc. but will instead be which algorithm is the best one to trust when deciding if you like your tonez!

So it wasn’t video that killed the radio star. That was just a warning shot.
 
I'm a Fractal guy, but I've been really exploring the DAW space. I actually did a live show with a plug in host from my laptop. Lots of compliments from the sound crew. I've also been pleasantly surprised with the PG stuff. Small, portable, and sounds better than it should. For $150, I'm down for this. I'll share my findings later...
 
Every so often, a platform, plug-in or methodology comes along promising to give "the exact tone of (fill in the blank)".

Profiling, tone matching, etc. I remember Toontrack's EZMix promising something similar, and of course they also recently updated that platform with "AI-powered analyzer and amp capturing tools".

In every case, what I get when I plug in my guitar with its pickups playing with my fingers is always different than whatever I heard in official or unofficial demo clips of the product ahead of time. I just don't see why this would be any different. The amp/cab/mic chain is important but is really just filling in a sandwich made of two buns (your guitar/pickups/playing and your playback system).

Most importantly, their results will only be as good as the underlying models powering it, and on that front - I've never been particularly bowled over by their offerings.

I'm not just an old man shouting at clouds. I work with AI every day in my marketing job, and it's only becoming more pervasive. I just don't see slavish recreation of tones ever leading to any sort of "new" music that resonates or inspires anyone.
 
Not trying to be difficult, but maybe we should see and hear back from users what it can and cant do before we bury it ? ;)

I mean its at least been properly and semi-professionally released and launched ... so that puts it miles ahead of the Quilter Elevate at least ;)
 
Tech isn’t going to stop for any of us. This sort of thing is inevitable in the digital race to the bottom.

That said, I think voice controls would be pretty badass on any of these platforms. “Siri, tell FAS to crank the gain to max and dump the mids to zero”… “Run a plate reverb in parallel with a tape delay after the cab block”. That sort of integration of tech would be pretty cool imo.
 
Tech isn’t going to stop for any of us. This sort of thing is inevitable in the digital race to the bottom.

That said, I think voice controls would be pretty badass on any of these platforms. “Siri, tell FAS to crank the gain to max and dump the mids to zero”… “Run a plate reverb in parallel with a tape delay after the cab block”. That sort of integration of tech would be pretty cool imo.

Voice-directed operation would be more valuable - to me - with a platform like current-state Fractal: It would keep me from muddling through menus and help avoid the waaaaay-too-many-keypresses UX when trying to move blocks.

But if it's a platform I like to use, I want the freedom to stumble around. Happy accidents happen all the time.
 
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