“It’s not really enjoyable to make music now… it takes a lot of time, it takes a lot of practice, you have to get really good at an instrument or really good at a piece of production software. I think the majority of people don’t enjoy the majority of time they spend making music.” Founder of @suno_ai_ @MikeyShulman Always interesting to hear someone with a completely opposite view to me.

Apparently, the future is all of us sipping our cubcake-in a cup in floating chairs on a spaceship like Wall-E, making music this way? No thanks.

I disagree with him 100%. That’s the founder of Suno, not me.

It’s not just one person, it’s a general mentality that is driving this so-called ‘innovation’.

You’d be surprised how many incredible individuals and non-profits do all these things, voluntarily. Often inspired and moved by the person you quote here. Avoid twisting scripture to accomplish your political goals.

Why must every mainstream article about videogame music still say “it’s come a long way from beep boop sounds”.

If you look through the image and let the two images merge in your mind, the small difference in each image is visible.

Such good writing. Late night TV hosts take note. No politics can be funny.

Any super talented composers here want to write some demos for @musio? We can pay, offer free Musio perpetual and you would own and keep what you create 100%. We would use the music to show off Musio on socials etc. Just need to demonstrate the vast possibilities of what is now in Musio.

Music creation is for humans. I’ll die on this hill.

'Composer' in 2019: music editor, composer, orchestrator, instrument performer, recordist, mix/master engineer - all wrapped into one exhausted person!

Best job market in decades. We should collectively help all able bodied people to find employment. There is freedom in that life... opposite to the life of bondage to government programs.

Music is a gift. It is the result of a creative act by a human. All those small and numerous details, chosen by a human. We find that it is more than just a mechanical process of assembling one’s knowledge of harmony, melody and instrumentation. There is something extra, that we have labeled in different ways. Some call it a muse, some say the human spirit. When we look at nature, we see remarkable creativity. A sunset, intricate fractal patterns, a mountain vista. It reminds me of an ancient idea: that there is perhaps a Spirit, beyond time and space, that created this and for some reason, gifted that creative ability to us, pesky humans. The idea being that humans are “imago Dei”, made in the image of this Creator. Companies and technologies with a desire to fully replace that Creative source with some new breakthrough anti-human technology is Tower of Babel level stuff. In other words: kinda not good. The ideology is one that has permeated the Silicon Valley and VC world for decades, and it is absolutely the wrong use of technology. Yes, AI/LLM/ML technologies will have a great use in many cases: helping diagnose diseases, childhood education, replacing CEOs 😂. But replacing the exact thing that makes us Human: creativity, this is wrong, and humans must push against this. Whether you believe in God, or you are an atheist, or perhaps agnostic, I think we can agree that something just ‘isn’t right’ with all this. Keep being vocal about your views on this! I’ll do the same. And perhaps we will move the needle in the right direction.

Hi, I thought I’d re-introduce myself: I’m Mike, composer and founder of @cinesamples along with a new thing called @musio. As composer, I’ve written music for things (StarCraft II, League of Legends, Disney Parks, etc). Hoping to contribute to the positive side of Twitter.

I still think the greatest thrill for a music creator is to do this. Had some great sessions here in the UK this week. Been a while! Some personal music I’ll release to the intertubes soon. I was thinking, would anyone want to submit music you wrote with @musio and we will pay to have it orchestrated and recorded live for you? Free. I wouldn’t want to call it a ‘competition’ because music isn’t a competition. But maybe a random selection? Let me think on this. We all need virtual instruments but if I can help advocate for real musicians I will always do this.

Just got Google Stadia for the kids. Wow, how is this magic possible? And can we bring music production software to this?

I got fired off a gig for the first time. That means I’m a real composer now right?

Married 18 years, 5 kids: - Listen without solutions - Date night weekly (even if you can’t afford it) - Change yourself, not her

Hi friends, a note of thanks: I am so proud of what we and this team built with @musio the last 2 years. Huge risks were taken to try something ambitious. It brings me joy to see what people write and compose with it - especially those who can’t afford expensive virtual instruments. My wife and I used the proceeds from our home sale to get it over the finish line. And I know how fortunate I am to even be in a position to do that. I thought long and hard about this: I would rather build something and have it be a spectacular failure, than not having tried at all. My kids are watching me. However, it seems that @musio is NOT a spectacular failure 😂 but rather something that continues to grow, and you all seem to dig it so far. Thank you for your support of my little business and I can’t wait to share our plans for 2024. Happy holidays and Happy new year!

I think after you hit a certain age it is effectively impossible to switch DAWs. 🎶 👴

Here is a screen grab of a piece composed by 16 year old Ethan Kennedy (with a bit of assistance from his composer dad) using @StaffPad. The playback is 100% @cinesamples - on an iPad!

Creating music is an anti-depressive.

Greetings to all my new followers!👋🏻 Hi I’m Mike, composer, pianist, and founder of a couple music tech businesses. For 18 years I’ve held the view that music production can and should be made more accessible to more people. Music creation is a lifelong and rewarding passion, whether you are a hobbyist, student or a professional. It takes years to improve, and there is great effort in the creative process, and that is where the joy is found! However, there are efforts today to completely delete the human from the creative process with new AI/ML technologies that I view as wrong, and frankly, evil. I’ll continue to share my views on this subject here. I encourage all music creatives to continue sharing your views on this subject. Thanks for following!

So many great music tech companies building cool stuff for HUMANS to make music. Support them! List your favorites below 👇 To the investors drooling all over AI Music pitch decks, cut it out. Invest in music companies that actually make the world better.

Don't call yourself an 'aspiring composer'. Just say 'composer'.

Posted this on LinkedIn so I thought I would post here too: After 17 years of starting and running Cinesamples, Inc. and launching Musio (musio.com) these last 5 years, we’ve built a strong foundation. I’m incredibly proud of our amazing team, who, despite a pandemic and numerous challenges, launched a successful and profitable startup. From here, the goal is to build on this foundation and continue growing towards some exciting plans for the future and our customers. I’ve always loved making music, and it’s been my passion since I was 12. So I’ve decided to dive back into what I truly enjoy—creating music for cool projects. I’ve already begun some exciting work with my friends at Disney parks and other ventures. With that said, I realized that I can’t give my full attention to running the company as CEO while also pursuing my music work. The company deserves someone dedicated to this role, so I’ve decided to step away and am excited to promote our CMO, Chris Hayzel, to CEO. I’ll remain on the board and as an owner, and I’ll still be involved in those capacities. I truly believe this is the best decision for us to continue serving our customers long into the future. If you’ve supported us over the years, thank you, thank you!

All of Cinesamples for $10? Are we crazy?

Do I have any video editor / after effects folks here looking for a gig? Short 30s video.

At Cinesamples, one can expect the following: •Starting salary ranging from $70k to $120k per year •Bonuses •Premium health benefits •Employee Stock Option Plan (ESOP). In addition, we have shared over $2.5M in residuals to musicians and artists. It’s been this way for years. We aspire to make Cinesamples / Musio one of the best places to work in the music industry.

Is this woman someone you know? I encourage you to take initiative and help her.

We are now actively testing CineStrings PRO which is coming to @musio in a couple weeks. Couple of notable things are the fully recorded ensembles (with entire string section in the room together), lots of FX and con sordino - nails that Shawshank vibe... more to come...

This incredible woman and these 5 clowns are the most important people in my life. Making music, building businesses is awesome too - but man is that a far second. We will be celebrating 20 years of marriage this year. That’s insane to me, because I know how that sounds - I remember thinking that’s what old and boring people would say. I guess I’m one of those now. 😂 I’ve learned there is so much more to Life beyond one’s limited views, beliefs, and achievements. I hope that for you, not necessarily in having a bunch of tiny humans, but in seeing that there may be more beyond what the world thinks we want. Okay that’s my Monday morning musing. Have a good week.

I'm SO happy about this!! We now put all the Hollywoodwinds scales and runs from @cinesamples into @musio. Now in your DAW, have fun! (We're over 2100+ instruments and growing!)

Cooking and Composing are exactly the same thing. Change my mind.

Young men, guard yourself against snakes like this guy Andrew Tate. Married 20 years here, 5 kids, own two successful businesses. Led my family on a trip around earth last year. Seek deep relationship, seek wholeness, seek wisdom, seek love. All that other stuff is bullsh*t.

We have 5 kids. Last year we sold everything and circumnavigated earth. Lived in 52 places in one year. Came back to US about a year ago. Still live minimally and it’s kinda nice. Kids thriving. Renting a small house. Lots of time together. Wouldn’t change a thing.

My setup now. Yamaha Disklavier as a controller.

We spent several days sampling brass at the Alfred Newman Scoring Stage at 20th Fox Studios. And it is good.

When an AI company is silent about training data - it is likely they're stealing from you. I just spent the last few hours generating tracks with Suno v3. There is no way what they are doing is legal. I hope I'm wrong.

My daughter wrote a cool tune for piano, and we had an opportunity to record it. Here’s how we did it!

Uh oh. We whipped up an AI midi generator web-app for Musio.

16 years ago @cinesamples was launched with a small harp library called CineHarp. Here’s the site we made back in 2007. It was a digital download and I programmed it for Gigastudio format.

That John Williams doc on @DisneyPlus. So well done. Man, I had so many feelings watching this. It was a beautiful biography honoring the composer, but not without a sense of bittersweet nostalgia of times gone by. I pray and hope for a future where culture and art reflect goodness, beauty, human creativity. To me there is nothing more inspiring than humans creating awesome things which reflect these values. Especially in a way that unifies a divided culture. I think music really can do this. No? I believe we will get there. We kinda have to. Please watch it and keep creating cool stuff!

No one else comes close. What a genius. cbsnews.com/video/composer-j…

Having sampled every instrument, note, and articulation in that room over the last 15 years… nothing comes close to this. Beautiful.

“Delete Generative AI music companies”

Hi Mikey, good to read your response here. You seem like a good guy, and I believe you have a passion for music like so many others. In your interview you had mentioned that most of the feedback about Suno from music creatives was positive. I hope that the overwhelmingly negative response here will give you a more accurate view of the market. We are at a monumental turning point in history, and you are one of the leaders in all this. I strongly suggest you rethink your business model to benefit the creativity of human music creators and not delete them. I have been doing this a long time, I avail myself to you any time if you would like advice. We will all be watching closely to see what Suno (and others companies in this space) does.

Working with my daughter on writing. Reminded me of myself at 15. Improvising. Auditioning sounds. And the blank page looms. Just put down the first thing that comes to mind. Anything. Blank page should exists for 30 seconds max! Try it. #noblankpages

Am I the only one?

The more I watch films with John Williams scores, the more I want to throw in the towel. What a master of the craft.

Make your own original music. Don’t just combine loops together. Use time-tested old fashioned things like melody, harmony, rhythm, counterpoint and instruments. It’s not rocket science, you can do it!

Thoughts on competing priorities: A few years back I had to make a decision. I had 3 options, but I could only pull off 2. The choices were: • Be present for family • Grow the music/software business • Compose music for cool things I chose to focus on the first 2. Alternative was to be bad at all 3. Composing had to be put on the back burner - temporarily. Have you had competing priorities and had to draw a hard line to stay sane? Was just thinking on this again and I imagine others have had to make similar decisions… Have a nice weekend!

Don’t judge people for their choices, man. I’m a father of 5 and couldn’t care less what other people choose to do. My life is awesome, and looks like theirs is too.

Last 6 months: music for the Disney Parks, music for League of Legends, running the Cinesamples business, music for Macy’s 2018 fireworks, develop new unannounced software project, filing of non-provisional patent, father of 4 with #5 on the way, husband. I’ll rest when dead.

What defines good music? The content (notes, counterpoint, harmony) or the sounds (orchestration, sound design, production).

All pianos in @musio have been updated and rolling out in the next couple weeks. Tweaked velocity curves and normalization. They sound so good now!

Thank you @Tinaguo for inviting me to #hanszimmerlive concert - great to see @EustachePedro #fluteguy as well. So much talent, great show go see it!

Can’t wait to share what’s coming October 5th. We may break the virtual instrument industry with this, for the benefit of composers. This is insane. 🤐 @musio

Articulation switching is so important. Implementing now! @musio

Would you turn down big projects or big opportunities if they conflicted with your values?

Once again we ask: What are you trained on?

This conductor is fun to watch. Bernstein was WAY more dramatic. Seems to be a lot of conductor experts on here. No one goes to orchestra concerts anymore, if she is the reason people go, great!

Click and Drag Keyswitch assigning in @musio

At the dawning age of AI, we build technology to inspire the joy of music creation by HUMANS. That’s a stand we’re taking. @cinesamples @musio

What is true today that will be true in 10 years? Here’s one: Humans prefer human-created music. Remind me to check this post in 2034.

So happy. New setup. #disklavier #yamaha

Grateful I can make a living as a musician. I mean let’s be honest, that’s ridiculous.

This is the room I spent the last year. A Yamaha Disklavier and Mac Studio. What else does one need? This was a temporary home for the Patti family while we settled after living in 52 locations. Just moving 10 minutes away this weekend. New York for 21 years, California for 20 years, 18 countries 🌍 for 1 year, North Carolina for 1 year. Let’s say I’m married to an adventurous woman!

You can now get the entire Cinesamples catalogue in one plugin with Musio musictech.com/news/gear/enti…

A society that undervalues music education, values MIDI packs.

All the CineHarps Glissandos and Articulations are now in @musio beta. Testing now... and then it'll be in your DAW. Also there are new UX things - like the ability to filter the catalog to ONLY downloaded instruments.

What movie / game got you into wanting to create music for things? State the year and your age. Me: Jurassic Park 1993 - 12 years old

Great session today with the talented folks in Budapest. Their new scoring stage sounds great!

Almost two years ago @musio went on sale and there were only like 200 instruments and a promise of more instruments coming. The team ended up delivering over 2000+ instruments and growing. We stuck by our word! But only because of your support! Wait until you see what the team does next 😃 Thanks for joining us to make world class virtual instruments available to everyone.

Big announcement coming shortly for creators of music. :)

Wrote this for our wedding 20 years ago using old gigastudio samples. Felt it was time to record with a human orchestra. The cheesy early-2000s groove is from the original and I extracted with Logic’s Stem Splitter. Kept that in of course. open.spotify.com/album/4kIll…

Welcome Tina!!

Seems to be heated discussion over the statement “music is the universal language”. I don’t think it means ordering your Starbucks with a bassoon performance. The implication is that there is something higher than ourselves that music taps into - universally. No?

I saw a comment that a ‘real composer’ wouldn’t use technology to aide them. Implying, it seems, that a ‘real composer’ is superior to those other ‘lesser composers’ who need these tools. This comes off as incredibly pretentious. What is a ‘real composer’? We were all beginners at one point.

A whole new collection of deeply sampled instruments now in your DAW. Go look! @musio

5 here! Do it!

Mobile setup!

For several years I had to privilege to write and arrange music for the iconic NBC/Macy’s broadcast of the fireworks in NYC. One piece that’s special to me is one I wrote called ‘Liberty’. We recorded at the WB stage with our usual band of musician friends. Fun stuff. Happy 4th!

Is there a place where one can find ALL of this kind of stuff on Twitter? Scrolling midi, game music, game covers etc...

I sold my house to invest in @musio. Chris Hayzel and I dive into a deeper conversation and offer a little of this personal side of our story.

Livestream almost ready to go! I did a quick test on YouTube LIVE today and I think I got this working. Props to my friend and streaming master @H2Daniel for the tech help. Standby.

In this strange middle ground of taking cheap projects to prove yourself and build relationship, but also knowing you are extremely qualified for most any project, at the proper budget...

Rest of the CineHarps glissandos, scales, articulations on its way!!

I’ve been fortunate to get to write music arrangements for the great people at Tokyo Disneyland over the years, looking forward to visiting today for the first time.

I’m grateful for the struggles I went through. It built my character. If everything was handed to me on a plate I wouldn’t have grown. I hope this for my children as well and that I also continue to grow. Growth comes through challenges in life, as you know well too Dan.

Expensive marketing, GUI's and famous names alone do not make for great virtual instruments. At @cinesamples we refuse to do that, we have too much respect for customers. #wednesdaywisdom

BIG content push for @musio! Here’s a summary of what’s new: - World Series: Iceland - Nordic Voices: Women of the North - 31 all-new Keyswitch patches and over 300 patch UI/Engine updates for: Apocalyptica, CineSymphony, Industry Brass Pro, Gina Luciani, Orchestral Chords, Quatre, Studio Basses, Tina Guo Solo Cello, and Viola Da Gamba - Programming update and UI update for Tina Guo Acoustic Cello Legato - Keyswitch patch updates for CineStrings Core - Keyswitch, Sustain and Staccato patches updated for CineBrass: Low Brass Great work by the @musio team. More to come this is just the beginning!

Which option? Discuss! 👇 • 30 years of a subscription service at $199/yr that contains $6000 (and growing) worth of virtual instruments. • Lifetime license for $6000 up front. Some orchestral instruments can cost over $100k to produce. We want to make it affordable to you.

Dear @Cloudflare, Because of you we lowered our monthly cloud costs from a staggering $6000/m with @googlecloud to $10/month. Now we can afford to build more cool stuff for our @musio users! You rock! And I love you.

So good. Will AI compose like this one day? I hope not - but it just might. The beauty of this is that a human made it. That’s special. Happy #WorldPianoDay

We @cinesamples sampled the iconic Mrs. Mills piano with the guys at Abbey Road years ago. To my ear, the piano in this AI music sounds identical. Not good.