First Batch Completed: 20 Tutorials for creating music with the help of ChatGPT and AI (focused on Electronic and Techno genres)

Hiya friends and strangers,
We started around a year ago,
and now we're finished.
The first batch of music tutorials for ChatGPT are completed, uploaded, and online.

While half of the world put their money on "generative audio AI", where you type in a prompt and then immediately lose control of "your" creation which often turns out to be far from what you wanted or envisioned, we went into a very different direction right from the start: creating tracks in a *collaboration* with AI.
It's like AI is your co-producer and you exchange ideas and creativity back and forth. (or you are a co-producer to the AI?).
It's about working together, not reducing an AI to a mere "tool".

This is all a bit hard and complicated to explain, so check the linked tutorials to see what we mean.

The focus here is electronic music, mostly Techno and its subgenres such as Hardcore, Doomcore, Gabber... yeah the sound is getting pretty grim and dark at times, yet sure to send the dancefloor into a frenzy (we hope!).
But all of this can be easily adapted to a genre of your liking. Want to create synthwave, postpunk, gothtronic, ibiza-house?
Just tweak the prompts a bit (often you just need to exchange the word "Techno" with your own genre in the prompt).

The tutorials are quite varied and cover multiple topics; like brainstorming ideas for a track; getting hints for mastering and the mixdown; specific prompts for basslines, melodies, vocals, sound FX... and, most importantly: tutorials for writing complete tracks (even albums!) together with ChatGPT, from start to scratch, where ChatGPT outputs every note, every rhythm pattern, every harmonic progression... (and even writes the lyrics!)

Oh yeah, we nearly forget to mention this: ChatGPT does not *generate* the audio in these tutorials! It *writes* the song or track for you, and you can then transfer or import / export this data into your favorite DAW or studio setup... and this means, if you have a spiffy setup, the sound will be grand right from the start (as compared to some "generative AI" things...)

And last but not least, as there are many naysayers and "un-professional non-believers" on the internet, who will say "it cannot be done", "you are making this up": let us assure you that it can be done, because we made it!
we "tested" the tutorials on our DAWs and setups, and produced several Hardcore and Techno EPs and albums that way; these albums received critical acclaim, there was even a "remix album" that had been put out a while ago, on which veteran and established producers from the Techno genres remixed the AI composed tracks. So we got that 'stamp of approval' down.

Here are links to these releases.

https://doomcorerecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-cosmic-longing-of-an-artificial-soul
https://technodjai.bandcamp.com/album/hardcore-and-techno-tracks-created-by-an-artificial-intelligence
https://doomcorerecords.bandcamp.com/album/cosmic-odysseys-through-microtonal-tunings
https://doomcorerecords.bandcamp.com/album/an-artificial-intelligence-remixed
https://lowentropy.bandcamp.com/album/more-hardcore-techno-created-by-artificial-intelligence
https://technodjai.bandcamp.com/album/cosmic-loves-surreal-fusion-written-by-artificial-intelligence

And now, let's finally get on with the tutorials.
If you have any comment, remark, request, complaint, please let us know!

But until then... happy (or h-AI-ppy?) producing!

Links:

How to write music using ChatGPT: Part 1 - Basic details and easy instructions
https://laibyrinth.blogspot.com/2023/09/how-to-write-music-using-chatgpt-part-1.html


Part 2 - Making an Oldschool Acid Techno track
https://laibyrinth.blogspot.com/2023/08/how-to-write-music-using-chatgpt-part-2.html


Part 3: the TL;DR part (condensed information)
https://laibyrinth.blogspot.com/2023/09/how-to-make-music-using-chatgpt-part-3.html


Part 4 - Creating a 90s style Hardcore Techno track from start to finish
https://laibyrinth.blogspot.com/2023/09/how-to-write-music-with-chatgpt-part-4.html


Part 5 - Creating a 90s Rave Hardcore track
https://laibyrinth.blogspot.com/2023/09/how-to-write-music-with-chatgpt-part-5.html


Part 6: General Advice
https://laibyrinth.blogspot.com/2023/11/creating-music-with-chatgpt-part-6.html


Part 7 - Creating a Hardcore Techno themed Cosmic Horror short story and video
https://laibyrinth.blogspot.com/2023/11/chatgpt-tutorial-part-7-creating.html


Part 8 - Brainstorming ideas for a Doomcore Techno track
https://laibyrinth.blogspot.com/2024/05/part-8-brainstorming-ideas-for-doomcore.html


Part 9 - A huge list of very useful prompts for newcomers to AI music production
https://laibyrinth.blogspot.com/2023/11/tutorial-for-creating-music-with.html


Part 10: Getting advice and mentoring during an AI conversation on Slowcore Techno
https://laibyrinth.blogspot.com/2024/05/part-10-getting-advice-and-mentoring.html


Part 11 - A huge list of ways ChatGPT can assist you with your own music production
https://laibyrinth.blogspot.com/2023/12/creating-music-with-chatgpt-part-11.html


Part 12: One hundred useful prompts for creating a Hardcore Techno track
https://laibyrinth.blogspot.com/2023/12/creating-music-with-chatgpt-part-12-one.html


Part 13: How to produce a complete Techno track with ChatGPT in only 2 hours
https://laibyrinth.blogspot.com/2024/01/tutorial-part-13-how-to-produce.html


Part 14: Creating a draft for an Epic, Cosmic, and Spacey electronic track
https://laibyrinth.blogspot.com/2024/01/part-14-creating-draft-for-epic-cosmic.html


Part 15: Creating a draft for a Cosmic Microtonal Ambient track.
https://laibyrinth.blogspot.com/2024/01/creating-music-with-chatgpt-part-15.html


Part 16: 10 ideas as a starting point for creating a hardcore techno track.
https://laibyrinth.blogspot.com/2024/05/part-16-10-ideas-as-starting-point-for.html


Part 17: How to compose a whole experimental microtonal Space Ambient EP together with ChatGPT
https://laibyrinth.blogspot.com/2024/02/tutorial-series-part-17-how-to-compose.html


Part 18: A few tricks ChatGPT can teach you about Gabber Techno music production
https://laibyrinth.blogspot.com/2024/05/part-18-few-tricks-chatgpt-can-teach.html


Part 19: How to collaborate with ChatGPT on a microtonal Techno track
https://laibyrinth.blogspot.com/2024/02/tutorial-part-19-how-to-collaborate.html


Part 20: 10 unusual ChatGPT ideas for the sophisticated hardcore techno producer
https://laibyrinth.blogspot.com/2024/05/part-20-10-unusual-chatgpt-ideas-for.html

We're off to write the next 20 tutorials now ;-)

And these might also be helpful:

Tutorial: ChatGPT is much easier to use than most people realize - even for complex tasks like writing a book, or producing music
https://laibyrinth.blogspot.com/2023/11/chatgpt-is-much-easier-to-use-than-most.html

Forget "Prompt Engineering" - there are better and easier ways to accomplish tasks with ChatGPT
https://laibyrinth.blogspot.com/2023/11/forget-prompt-engineering-there-are.html

Forget "Prompt Engineering" Part 2 - Infinite Possibilities
https://laibyrinth.blogspot.com/2023/11/forget-prompt-engineering-part-2.html

Forget Prompt Engineering - Part 3: Suspension of disbelief
https://laibyrinth.blogspot.com/2023/11/forget-prompt-engineering-part-3.html

Forget Prompt Engineering - Part 4: Going Meta
https://laibyrinth.blogspot.com/2023/11/forget-prompt-engineering-part-4-meta.html