I queried ChatGPT asking if VCV Rack presets can be generated with it and here is some interesting stuff I read on VCV Rack with ChatGPT " Coming Soon? (Potential Use Cases with APIs)
If VCV Rack ever opens a scripting or automation API (Lua, JS, Python, etc.), ChatGPT could eventually:
Autogenerate patches in code
Modify or randomize presets
Respond to real-time control prompts
That would be next-level ." Do any of the forum lovers feel a scripting or automation API will lead to eventual ChatGPT autogeneration in code/randomized modifid presets/etc. some day? Maybe the op knows… I would love to be able to make any generative patch I could imagine without the guess work and fundamentals using AI.
I had an email about using Copilot at work, and tried asking it how to create a lush pad. Most of it was fine, apart from “use a sinewave oscillator for a rich harmonic sound”. This is what annoys me with AI, it all sounds feasible and efficient, but then you have to spend a fair amount of time checking that part of what it’s told you isn’t fabricated or just completely false.
Possibly, it could provide inspiration and wire up a few modules in a way you wouldn’t have thought of, but letting AI tools generate a whole patch would feel like cheating and take away the satisfaction of creating and figuring things out for yourself, which is the whole point of modular.
I hate to be a luddite, but I haven’t seen much yet to change my mind that AI is generally a waste of energy, bad for the planet and mainly exists to enrich the tech overlords that already have far too much money and power, providing minimal benefit to the rest of us.
Because seemingly we’re in the early era of AI assistance I think that you could even thoroughly research in depth if AI augmented reality can be used as a punishment tool even today even tonight or maybe yes maybe in the future after thorough research you can learn it through AI itself. You can even ask about the truth of religion/spirituality in theory blessed be. Ask the if’s ands or but’s also.
Yeah, I use copilot at work. It does some things pretty well. I really only use it to suggest a few lines of code. Often it’s correct. For example - I’m a ludite who uses console.log a ton for finding bugs. copilot knows how I log stuff, and usually suggests exactly what I want.
would I want AI to make me a full synth patch? no.
would I want AI to write an entire computer program? no.
would I want AI to put a few modules together in a common configuration? why not?
is AI overhyped? Yes. But isn’t every “new” thing? Remember teh intewebz in the 90’s?
does current AI implementations waste a ton of electricity? yes.
typing text to make some process twiddle the knobs for me, hopefully the way I want
I would typically pick “3. write a module that stochastically twiddles the knob in ways I find interesting”, and then completely forget about the music I thought I was making. But that’s just a “me” problem.
More to the point, the imagined interface using ChatGPT, et al is like telling an enthusiastic undergrad to use VCV rack for me. If, somehow, my job was to produce VCV-based sounds in bulk and at scale, that might be helpful, although I suspect there are upper bounds to the utility of enthusiasm/speed.
But who knows. People do seem to like doing an easy thing (e.g., picking a snapchat filter) that creates a complicated-looking result, as long as it’s easy to show your friends. “Look what I did!” is an impulse I can understand.
Coming Soon? (Potential Use Cases with APIs)
." Do any of the forum lovers feel a scripting or automation API will lead to eventual ChatGPT autogeneration in code/randomized modifid presets/etc. some day? Maybe the op knows… I would love to be able to make any generative patch I could imagine without the guess work and fundamentals using AI.