And it's not just that some people still engage in those activities, but a lot of people are starting their carriers by direct influence from those tools.
And, this is subjective, but a lot of those tool-enabled artists seems to do better even in absence of such automagic enablers than non-enabled. Good AIs sharpen humans into unassuming Olympians, bad AIs just fall out of the Internet attention span.
And it's an instrument like any other. It doesn't magically write lyrics and a melody for you, it doesn't mix, and it certainly doesn't sound great without a good ear for the different parameters and EQing. It takes a lot of skill to make music with vocaloid.
> First all the music industry will collapse under A.I. lords
The purpose seems as usual to get rid of as many human musicians/singers they can so that everything can be made by a single person (or AI in a few years), therefore saving money. In a different context, the transition from multi elements bands to one man bands with keyboard, then finally karaoke, in many cases is motivated by costs as well.
The point is that it enables musicians who would never have found a vocalist before this. Vocaloid has been around a decade and hasn't eliminated any jobs, unless maybe someone hurt their throat trying to sing Disappearance of Hatsune Miku.
There's hardly any evidence automation ever destroys jobs; it seems to actually create them. It's very silly people just keep claiming this.
I was not referring to musicians using electronics to create something they have no access to (I have two synthesizers just here because I can't afford an orchestra) but to the music industry that in many contexts pushes for solutions motivated only by money.
All the stats about the rise of the old music are supporting my claim:) Young people, invest in your talents, with analogue processes in mind.
This will be a huge market.