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Guitinker

Paying a hot new band living wages frequently results in infant mortality so I predict there will be a phase where Up & coming single artists will perform with projected virtual avatars of themselves in exotic settings playing other backing instruments and will incorporate wearable electronics as real-time intelligent MIDI control for effects management, eliminating floor clutter.

Inquisitive

The music world, in the next decade will be what it's been in decades and centuries past. Still being made through instruments of all kinds.

Bloozenator

There will be a resurgence of hair metal spearheaded by the Ozzy Osbourne AI robot who will take over the world to bring about the hair metal AI apocalypse.

cgm6066

I believe that we'll become so inundated with sound and "music" that we'll all strive to produce the perfect silence. Noise cancelling ears!

fluffy0llie

I believe that music over the next ten years will be a greater synthesis of live and programmed music. As a musician I use my NI sounds in so many ways; composing original pieces with live performers, arranging existing pieces for a large range of styles and ensembles, preparing students for examination and live performances but to name a few. It will also allow composers who have the ideas in their heads to realise them into polished performances.

Ultimately music will embrace technology to enhance live performance and communication and continue to break down barriers of ability, geography, style and experience, especially in a post-COVID world.

Greg R

I think in a decade we will see the plight and fall of AI. AI already is influencing today’s music and that’s why a pop hit song is not as memorable as it was a few decades ago. Humanity will get sick and tired of that “new digital sound” and revert to more organic true human feel kind of music. Though I think there will be conflicts. You will still have your purist on both sides - the digital vs the organic creators. There will be little room for the creators that blend the two worlds as it will be obvious to hear. Humanity will always prevail as AI is too far behind to connect the dots of the meaning of having a spirit, compassion and empathy for all living things. We forget that AI is human made and will have its own flaws as anything man creates is never absolute for human can never be absolute him/her selves.

Mark Paxton

While AI has been investigated as a tool for music creation since the 1950s, we have only recently gotten to the point where it's become reasonable to consider using AI for Music, whether used as a tool for writing VSTs, creating sounds, or composing music. Music is essential to people. Music invokes emotions in people. While AI will continue to influence and permeate most things, AI won't be able to listen to and appreciate music, nor will AI will emotionally be moved by music. It will increasingly become a tool for music, but music is still essentially a creative process. AI can listen and analyze but not feel. Too much reliance on an AI tool for creating music, and music could become too formula-based and mechanical. Perhaps that will become our near future. (Does this make anyone think of loops or drum machines?) For some music genres, this might be sufficient, but perhaps not for all. Look back to the pre-MIDI era and what it took to create music. In the post-MIDI age, we have come a long way. Were there good and bad in what has happened in the past 40 years? We are now entering another era, the AI era. There is likely little that might impede this progression (unless you consider apocalyptic events). Can anyone imagine what the post-AI period might bring to the table? IMHO, the true creative process for composing music is still going to remain largely human, at least for the foreseeable future, and the resulting emotions evoked by music cannot be shared with anyone other than another human being, not likely ever a machine.

James Rooney

I think that true human created music will win out over AI. No machine can truly "create" music as we can and I think people will know the difference between what is generated by a machine and what comes from the human heart.

Peavynation

Definitely AI focus ahead. Be it AI-powered VSTs, analysis tools, and other plugins, to full on AI-generated musical content. I think it'll be a very interesting time in music, and ultimately, after the novelty of AI generated music has run its course, I think the value of human-made music will actually rise.

Steve Westbrooks

As a writer of songs that bring glory to the Most High, the Lord Jesus Christ, am in hopes that the truly redeemed will put Christ first always when writing songs to Him! To His Glory.

LPKEYS

I strongly believe that a more universal set of articulation maps will become a standard in the future. MIDI 2.0 should help this along, I HOPE!!!!!

Also, I HOPE that Native Instruments takes Kontakt into the 20th century and will allow Batch Locate. I had a corruption on my Mac and after it was fixed I had to manually Locate 271 libraries. That's ridiculous.

Puzzleboy

Not much will change... Music 10 years from now will sound pretty much the same as it did 10 years ago.

fsciarra62@gmail.com

I believe in the near future music production will face a kind of involution for what I would define as "complimentary commercial grade" that doesn't really require a high talented musician to be elaborated and that's both on composition and production/engineering. Those roles might be partially filled by AI driven or supervised tools, so that those specific packages for "ready to go" music production like loops and similar will see a market shrink. I do believe that this will push more musicians to go back to professional teachers and schools and more "proper musician tools" like instruments and composer tools will get a new fresh back. The request for more "artistic music" will raise and a new "New Wave", maybe more "unplugged-like" but with electronic and software instruments, will emerge. I see also a revamp for phisical media, because the need of "feel the stuff" and differentiate will be stronger after that all that AI have conglomerate the virtual production. So, summarizing, more music from musicians!

nightjar

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/80670#Comment_80670

Hmm..

Maybe.. but how long can the human heart last??

https://youtu.be/Z_fluqc6eBM

bydavidrosen

No where good! But that won't stop me from continuing to create music and trying to build a career in this world. But yeah... Not good. Just bad. All around.