Exploring Bias-X: Magic & Warts of AI Sound Engineering

Hogwarts AND Hog Warts

Quick review of both the magic and the warts of Positive Grid’s Bias-X. We chase a single sound a couple of different times using the new AI feature, along the way finding out where Bias X still has far to go. The sound we are chasing is a classic Vox Chime. For more on that, and how the Vox chime differs from the Fender jangle, see this livestream: https://youtu.be/5k74DFYpzJo?si=I_OEhMy8pTtYcdvY.

The Magic: AI really is fun to dial in sounds with as long as you are good at a little prompt engineering; It sounds great.

The Warts: CPU hog, need to be connected to the internet, so MS, Google, FB, and everyone all want to call home and glitch out your audio, unreported latency

The Big Wind

gonna come down and blow it all away”

From my 1988 one man band, rubberfish, comes john-lennon-wannabe-with-a-cheap-casio-and-a-rhyming-dictionary cheery apocalypse, perfect for today, with tornadoes, floods, landslides, fires, and elections. Remember, the big wind’s gonna come down and blow it all away, anyway. recorded on 4-track cassette. remind me to tell you the story of Rubberfish some day.