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- 03 Aug
AI Music News 03 AugARIA is working on AI chart rules after an AI Madonna rework topped Australian radio
- ARIA confirmed on August 3, 2026 it is "working through" what an AI chart change could look like for the official Australian charts.
- The framework under discussion would exclude generative AI recordings unless they use authorised infrastructure and show human-led artistry.
- Josh Fawaz's AI rework of Madonna's "Like A Prayer," released in April, topped the Radio Monitor Hot 100 in June as Australia's most-played radio song.
- 03 Aug
AI Music News 03 AugCharli xcx's producers used AI plugin Concatenator to build No One Lasts Forever
- AG Cook and Finn Keane used Concatenator, an AI "audio mosaicing" plugin by DataMind Audio, on Charli xcx's "No One Lasts Forever" from Music, Fashion, Film.
- The producers ran a studio jam session through the plugin, with MS-20, Vermona, and Prophet hardware in the sample pool.
- Concatenator indexes samples by timbre, pitch, and amplitude, then rebuilds incoming audio in real time from the closest matching fragments.
- 03 Aug
AI Music News 03 AugMilk & Honey founder sues Silicon Valley couple for $5M over AI music software he says they stole
- Grammy-winning producer Warren "Oak" Felder and Milk & Honey founder Lucas Keller filed a $5 million lawsuit against tech entrepreneurs Walter and Samia De Brouwer in Los Angeles Superior Court.
- The 2023 collaboration produced AI music software with a proprietary "copyright checker" designed to detect copyrighted chords.
- Felder and Keller each received 345,000 shares in the De Brouwers' company Snowcrash, set to vest through 2028.
- 03 Aug
AI Music News 03 AugTyga's $TARFACE faces AI accusations after producer Medasin flags 'AFFECTION' as likely AI
- Producer Medasin publicly accused Tyga's July 31 album $TARFACE of using AI, tagging Tyga and EMPIRE on X on August 1, 2026.
- Medasin says a detection model built by Human Standard flagged the single "AFFECTION" as "likely AI," generated with Treblo software.
- He made the same accusation against Fenix Flexin's "RUBBERZ" and points to EMPIRE's involvement in both projects as a pattern.
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- 03 Aug
Tutorial 03 AugHow to write chords, arpeggios, and basslines fast with Reason 14 Players
- Chord Sequencer, Arpeggio Lab, and Bassline Generator are Player devices in the Reason Rack, and they generate editable MIDI from the notes you play (or from no input at all)
- Buying Reason 14 outright does not include these 3 Players. You need Reason+ (from €11.25 a month), the Reason Rack plugin subscription (from €6.58 a month), or the €74 add-on per device
- Chord Sequencer ships 100+ chord sets with 16 chords each, over 1,500 chords across 8 style categories
- 03 Aug
Tool News & Updates 03 AugOMNi is a free Rust-based DAW with native AI sample generation, out now in alpha
- OMNi v0.1 is a free DAW built entirely in Rust, released in alpha for Windows and Linux by developer Tomasz Głuc.
- It's the first DAW with native AI sample generation, powered by ElevenLabs, plus an image-to-sound spectral synth running on Gemini 2.5 Flash.
- The alpha ships 14 synth engines and 16 built-in effects, with CLAP, VST3, and LV2 plugin support.
- 31 Jul
AI Music News 31 JulGEMA wins Suno lawsuit: Munich court delivers first European ruling that AI music training needs a license
- Judge Elke Schwager of the Munich Regional Court ruled for GEMA on July 31, 2026, siding with the collecting society on virtually all points.
- The court held storing songs inside Suno's model violates the reproduction right, and serving outputs to users violates the making-available right.
- Suno must disclose its revenues to GEMA and pay damages, with the amount still to be set.
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I'm Christopher Wieduwilt. Founder of The AI Musicpreneur.
Christopher Wieduwilt
AI Music Educator & Journalist
I've been a musician for over 25 years — metal bands in Germany, a solo singer-songwriter project that toured the US coast to coast, 500,000+ plays on Myspace. Then Myspace crashed and I lost my entire fanbase overnight.
After that I worked inside the music industry for years on the business side: managing artists, working for record labels, organising concerts and festivals. Watched the same mistakes repeat on newer platforms.
In 2023, generative music AI started reshaping everything: production, promotion, rights, revenue. I started covering AI in music production in August 2023, before Suno's public launch. 200+ stories since.
Today the site is read by 20,000 music professionals every month — Grammy-winning engineers, artists, and people inside Warner Music, AWAL, Believe, Songtradr, and UnitedMasters.
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Frequently asked
Frequently asked questions
What is AI music and how does it work?
My article on What is AI music covers this in full: how AI models are trained on audio, what generation tools can and can't do, and where the copyright questions stand.
Will AI replace musicians?
The short answer is no, but the longer answer matters more. Will AI replace musicians breaks down what AI can produce, what it can't, and where human artists still have ground that's hard to take.
Is AI music copyrighted?
Practice is shifting. The US Copyright Office has ruled that purely AI-generated output doesn't qualify for copyright protection. Is AI music copyrighted covers the current legal position, the active lawsuits, and what this means for artists using AI tools in their work.
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How do AI music tools compare to traditional music production software?
Traditional DAWs give you full control with a steep learning curve. AI tools give you fast results with less manual work, but trade off some control. Most professional workflows now combine both: AI tools for ideation, stem separation, and mastering; the DAW for arrangement and final production decisions.
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