Quite honestly, have any of you LISTENED to modern pop music? Do you see much of a burning need for an arranger engine that can generate half-diminished chords, or 7#9's, or augmented chords, or any of the chord vocabulary from the 20th century?

Today's music is relentlessly diatonic, utterly simple in construction, often little more than a four bar loop repeated ad nauseam..! Most of the interest and variety comes from drum beats and complex layering of textures. You’re lucky if a 'chord' even has a third, the open9 dominates...

If you want to make 'modern' music, the tools that actually created it in the first place are by FAR the better tool to replicate it. Trying to bend an arranger's OS into making utterly modern music is mostly an exercise in turning OFF the arranger, and using what rudimentary clip launching features have been half-assedly added to the OS recently in a vain effort to remain viable.

Young musicians honestly don't NEED what an arranger offers. The new tools they're using (and I exclude AI compositional tools because the minute you use them, you've admitted you're NOT a musician!) do the job they WANT to do far better than an arranger.

Simple exercise... take ANYTHING from today's Billboard Hot 20. Try to get even CLOSE with an arranger. Bloody near impossible, right?

I rest my case...!