I'm following up on my Berklee/Suno response video by answering the most interesting comments you left — from the "AI stole all the music" argument to whether generative tools belong in a music college at all. Expect a lot of nuance, a few disagreements, and an honest look at what music education needs to get right for the next twenty years.

I respond to Rick Beato's argument that AI data centres are headed for the same fate as 1990s recording studios, agreeing with the core pattern while adding nuance around the hybrid future of local and cloud AI. I also demonstrate how to generate a complete AI song entirely on your local machine for free, using LM Studio and ComfyUI with the open-source ACE-Step 1.5 model.

I test Amorph, a free plugin that lets you create your own audio effects and instruments using generative AI — no coding required. Watch me build a binaural panner with interaural time difference from scratch and see how it performs in practice.