Wishing everyone in the PTN community a happy, productive, and prosperous New Year. Appreciate each of you for being here in whatever way you show up. Here is to growth, momentum, and building something meaningful in the year ahead. Wishing you and yours health, peace, and success. Gil

Hey producers - I've primarily been doing instrumental cues and have a couple of structures that work well in terms of the publishers I work with. (Thanks @Gilde Flores!) I'm starting to do more songs (vocals/raps) and wondering if there are structures you all try and follow from a sync perspective. Obviously we're trying to hit the hook right off the bat, but I'm wondering how you structure your verses and additional choruses. I tend to work well from templates for my cues so would love hearing from you guys what seems to work best for the songs you've gotten placed. Thanks in advance!

Great research report (attached) from Landr about how musicians are using AI. A few highlights: - 87% of artists now use AI somewhere in their workflow. - 29% of respondents are using song generators at some stage in their workflow, especially to create song parts like vocals and instruments. - 40% are interested in trying them 
 out, particularly for song parts or ideas rather than complete tracks. AI as a collaborator is the avenue to watch and learn IMO...

Hey everyone - first of all, it was great hanging out with you all last night. What a great group of professionals and people! I thought I'd post my SUNO experiment here so you can hear what we were talking about last night. I uploaded the first verse and chorus of a song I wrote a long time ago in demo form with me singing, and asked it to put an Indie Rock spin on it. The second version is what SUNO gave back to me. All the tracks are downloadable in Stems from SUNO so I can drag it into Logic and work from there to refine it. (PS - SUNO also just introduced a Studio product which seems to mimic a DAW.) Question - for composers/producers who can't afford to bring a crew of session musicians together to work on a song, is SUNO (or AI) going to be a tool for collaboration moving forward? - As @Leonardo Escárcega pointed out, is it that different from taking inspiration or adding to your track with a Splice loop you manipulate? - What about Logic's Session players - aren't they AI? - How about EastWest's Hollywood Orchestrator? Just like coders are now using AI as a tool to help them code faster, will media composers use AI as a tool to work faster? Both still need a "composer" to make tweaks, edit, react to feedback from a client, etc. AI is here and going to change the landscape no doubt. As media composers that work on extremely tight deadlines, is there a way for us to harness the power for good in an ethical fashion?

This is a really interesting clip from Harvey Mason Jr., session player and head of the Recording Academy. Here’s the clip: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQUoDtCEnHo/?igsh=MWFmbXI4YXFteDdiMA== I think he’s right AND there’s a way to use it ethically as a collaborator. It’s here and ain’t going anywhere. Once people get over the novelty and horror of its ability to create music in its own, the tools that will be created for us as lone wolf producer will be incredible.