Is AI in music actually moving in the right direction? If you’ve spent any time playing with generic prompting tools lately, you might beg to differ. We can probably all agree that prompting music is a fun toy for about five minutes, and then you get bored and go back to work.

But in this episode, we’re looking past the slop. We dive into the real future of the industry: the niche tools and professional applications like AI de-noising, mastering, and future tools like MIDI workflows. We also get real about the mess that was the 2025 plug-in market.