There's nothing wrong with being unhappy, IMO - you can still channel those emotions into something meaningful.
But if you do want to be happy, you can find stories, if you look hard and long enough, of "outliers". People who, against all odds, defied "statistics" and broke out of whatever expectations society and "facts" projected onto them.
I tried "everything" until age ~27 when I finally found one dial (very specific elimination diet) that made the rest of my body act mostly normally. Other changes were easier to make from that point onwards, altho there's a lot of damage to undo still. Diet is just one factor, for others it could be completely different.
My point is - I thought I would never be healthy. This stuff runs in my family too. But I just kept trying things. There's no other option.
You are a unique human being and soul who has something valuable to contribute to this world. Even if that's being unhappy.
Hope that doesn't sound condescending, it's something I tell myself too.
I wasn't expecting to, but I got chills listening to some Suno creations from artists who are clearly very talented at using this new medium.
Much like those of us hammering away at LLMs who eventually get incredible results through persistence, people are doing the same with these other AI tools, creating in an entirely new way.
I'm sure Suno are working hard on this and these AI tools can only come together as fast as we can figure out the UX for all this stuff, but I'm holding out for when I can guide the music with specific melodies using voice or midi.
For "conventional" musicians, we (or at least I) would love to have that level of control. Often we know exactly what it should sound like, but might not have session musicians or expensive VSTs (or patience) on hand to get exactly the sound we want. Currently we make do with what we have - but this tech could allow many to take their existing productions to the next level.
What I've tend to find is that although almost everyone listens to some form of music, the average person tends to like things which are squarely in the middle of the gaussian curve, and that are inherently very predictable as though the creator had chosen the most stastically likely outcome for every creative decision they made while creating it. Similar trends with almost anything creative, cinema, literature, food etc.
This is basically what all the Suno creations sound like to me, which is to say they definitely have a market, but that market isn't for people who have a more than average interest in music.
Not OP, but on the off chance you haven't seen this, I found the suno explorer thing quite nice. Hitting random a few times, I'll usually stumble onto something interesting. This was the first demo I heard where some of the AI tunes gave me goosebumps close to what human music does.
I'm not the person you responded to, but these are some examples from someone I know that had accompanying music videos (actual video production) made for them:
I feel I must push back on this dang. I was being kind and not snarky, but critisim was earned as I listened to the tracks that where suggested. Had I said these are wonderful no flag. OP stated something that would lead someone to believe they where as good as grandfather comment description. It was in fact not audioly pleasent despite the great visuals.
They probably won't. And if they do probably everyone will ridicule the songs. But maybe they will link the songs and maybe at least half the repliers will say the songs actually are good. I like rooting for the underdog.
I listened to it when you posted before. Better than most of the others I have listened wich were all much more "cold".
The visual stuff also helps to make it more powerfull and cohesive.
The bad part is that it wanders a lot to get nowhere and it does not create a climax that bridges with the second part. The same sounds and ambient with a producer behind that creates an arragment for it would be much more powerful.
Definitely more Boards of Canada, but Aphex is a big inspiration behind a lot of my prompts (I really just said that, yeah - it's kind of hilarious talking about generated music):
After using Ableton for years and previously Logic, I've never used music software that evolves as fast as Bitwig. The rate at which they improve it is pretty mind-blowing in comparison.
When the founders are also the lead engineers, incentives are aligned. I asked the Ableton CEO at multiple events and expos to fix repeatable bugs, and add proper PDC, and he mocked me.
Yeah, I think four of the founders/initial employees were ex-Ableton people, it was a thing that was highlighted when Bitwig first launched (around 2014 maybe?), together with that they were also Berlin-based (because that matters...) and it had Linux support from day one :)
I'm not finding any first-hand sources about it, but remember that most articles at the time mentioned it one way or another.
On the other hand I once opened a ticket for Ableton Live 9 asking to fix an extremely annoying windows-only race condition when using midi at the same time from a Komplete Kontrol Instance and a regular track session session using an M-series Native Instruments keyboard, and they fixed it after a few weeks.
I did the same with Bitwig in 2022 and the bug it's still there.
He mocked you? Well, I am sure we would like to know more. In another comment someone said "at least developers have thought of others" because they dump their stuff in plaintext, but then you come out with such a story which makes me want to stay away from anything related to Ableton.
>but then you come out with such a story which makes me want to stay away from anything related to Ableton.
Knee-jerk responding like that to a random anecdotes by a random person on the internet, who might as well be total bullshit, is not exactly the most prudent software evaluation path.
Perhaps the "mocking" was just the CEO not placing the importance that the person thinks their request should. Or the CEO responded to rude incessant tone. Or the CEO had a bad day, and the parent was like the 10th person nagging their balls with their pet peeves at that show.
The amount of information to that comment is almost zero, and we don't know tons of context.
Oh geez, wonder what was wrong out of these 3 sentences.
1st: Bad?
2nd: Bad?
3rd: Bad?
Please bots, help me clear this up. :)
Down-vote afterwards, or I am sorry, is the down-vote for the 2nd? Cry me a river, then, for not liking Ableton. sighs. I prefer FL Studio.
I swear these down-votes are utterly useless. I will apply the previously mentioned uBlock rules so I will not see these pointless (!) down-votes.
God forbid I do not like the software you like. God forbid I am aware enough to realize it might be a bias. God forbid I ask for elaboration. God forbid I voice any of this.
Admission of "confirmation bias" doesn't make the comments about the software more valuable, it makes them less. Probably that's what drove the downvotes.
> doesn't make the comments about the software more valuable
I admitted to having confirmation bias, which influence my decisions. I think it is valuable to recognize and to admit to one's biases, regardless of the subject matter.
I never liked Ableton, and I still do not know if I should believe the guy, I would really like some details.
Seconded, I think even one such a story on HN for this specific topic, where big tech incentives aren’t that high, is a high quality signal of company rot.
sure, base your software decisions on random anecdotes on HN, from people who might had been rude themselves, misreading the response they got, or worse...
Not sure. 6 looks nice, but the past 3-4 versions just had this modularity improvements, which I don't particularly care for, and much smaller workflow, sequencing, audio editing, fx and audio vst improvements (which I do care for)
> I've never used music software that evolves as fast as Bitwig
I've been curious about Bitwig, played around with it a bit, but never made the switch from Ableton. After reading this, which I think was intended as a positive, I'm now less curious about Bitwig...
I get your meaning, but I associate changes to DAWs more positively than changes to other software. Ableton famously had a horrific bug with its plugin delay compensation for multiple versions. You deal with that long enough, you appreciate an attentive developer.
Also love FL Studio. They've made amazing changes over the years. Now they're... Experimenting more with AI. Not a big fan.
Seconding this. My work has had the same problem - by the time I've got things all hooked up, figured out the complicated stuff - my brain (and body) clock out and I have to drag myself through hell to get to 100%. Even with ADHD stimulant medication. It didn't make it emotionally easier, just _possible_ lol.
LLMs, particularly Claude 4 and now GPT-5 are fantastic at working through these todo lists of tiny details. Perfectionism + ADHD not a fun combo, but it's way more bearable. It will only get better.
We have a huge moat in front of us of ever-more interesting tasks as LLMs race to pick up the pieces. I've never been more excited about the future of tech
Same here, especially for making bash scripts or lots of if this if that with logging type stuff, error handling etc..
Oh and also, from what I know, ADHD and perfectionism is a very common combination, I'm not sure if everyone has that but I've heard it's the case for many with ADD. Same with "standards" being extremely high for everything
I've been asking myself this since AI started to become useful.
Most people would guess it threatens their identity. Sensitive intellectuals who found a way to feel safe by acquiring deep domain-specific expertise suddenly feel vulnerable.
In addition, a programmer's job, on the whole, has always been something like modelling the world in a predictable way so as to minimise surprise.
When things change at this rate/scale, it also goes against deep rooted feelings about the way things should work (they shouldn't change!)
Change forces all of us to continually adapt and to not rest on our laurels. Laziness is totally understandable, as is the resulting anger, but there's no running away from entropy :}
Putting this idea out there, haven't seen anyone implement it:
Use vector embeddings to represent each task as a story, an abstraction of 1. the past, 2. the present, 3. the future - on a kind of global "story map".
Each embedding would be generated by all available sense inputs at a point in time. The most useful embeddings alg will be able to combine sight, hearing, internal monologue, visual imagination etc into one point on a high-dimensional map.
At each time step, find the closest successful "memory" (based on embedding of 1+2+3) and do some LLM exploration to adapt the memory to the new, novel situation.
Attempt the new "story", and do something like A* to get closer to the desired "future", tweaking the story each time and plotting failed attempts on the embedding map.
Theory being that over time, the map will become populated with successful attempts and embedding will be able to abstract between similar situations based on 1+2+3.
I'm not the guy to implement it, and I imagine new models training with a "reasoning step" are doing a similar thing at training-time.
Story in the sense that we understand everything (perhaps even our most fundamental perceptions) through stories - events described over time with meaning/significance ascribed to particular things. There's a beginning, middle and end - in its most basic form.
If we model "situations" in AI in a similar way, my intuition tells me it would be similarly useful.
But if you do want to be happy, you can find stories, if you look hard and long enough, of "outliers". People who, against all odds, defied "statistics" and broke out of whatever expectations society and "facts" projected onto them.
I tried "everything" until age ~27 when I finally found one dial (very specific elimination diet) that made the rest of my body act mostly normally. Other changes were easier to make from that point onwards, altho there's a lot of damage to undo still. Diet is just one factor, for others it could be completely different.
My point is - I thought I would never be healthy. This stuff runs in my family too. But I just kept trying things. There's no other option.
You are a unique human being and soul who has something valuable to contribute to this world. Even if that's being unhappy.
Hope that doesn't sound condescending, it's something I tell myself too.