Being a guy who doesn’t play an instrument very well I find it frustrating not being able to record the song I “hear” in my head when I write it. I use all sorts of helpers/tools to get as close as possible to what I envision. Like Marty, I love Toontrack’s EZ Keys, EZ Drummer and EZ Bass. I don’t think they are AI based, but they do come pretty close to AI. The good thing about those products is that I stay in control of what I’m doing. They follow my chord progression. I can modify the piano, drum or bass line any way I want to. I’ve also used Dreamtonics which is an AI based vocal generator. Here again, I stay in control of things and I can define not only the words of the song but also the vocal melody and a bunch of other things. It’s like having a singer in your studio and you telling them exactly the way you want them to sing. Very helpful if you can’t sing. I’ve also worked with Udio. That’s totally different because it does everything for you. You can enter your own lyrics but it can also write lyrics for you. I find Udio helpful if I’m looking for a musical sound, a missing melody for a section of my song or alternative lyric ideas. It lets me hear things I probably never would have thought of myself. In a way it’s like having a band in your studio making random suggestions what the melody, sound, vocals, instrumentation, etc. could look like. I can imagine that in the future some of these suggestions might lead me down a path with my songwriting and recording that I wouldn’t have thought of before. For me, Udio is like the other tools … they all help me write and record my words, my melodies, my songs.