Why do music producers choose and use certain musical instruments and sound-generation technologies for their creative work?
This online survey investigates how music producers choose and experience different technologies for sound design and music production.
It is part of my Bachelor’s thesis in Media Informatics at IU – Internationale Hochschule. Title of the thesis is ‘Between Haptics, Flexibility, and Automation: The Influence of Hardware-, Software-, and AI-based Sound Design on the Creativity and User Experience of Music Creators.’
The study focuses on the role that hardware instruments, software instruments, and AI-based sound generation tools play in the creative process. It examines why music creators use particular technologies and how these technologies are perceived in terms of creative support, and user experience. Please join this study.
In this survey, sound design refers to the creation, selection, modification, and shaping of individual sounds for music production. This includes technologies such as:
Hardware synthesizers
Software synthesizers
Sampling instruments
AI-based sound generation tools
The survey focuses on two practical sound-design tasks:
Designing a lead sound, the main melodic sound in a track
Done! One thing of note, the survey seems heavily leaning towards electronic music production, but you mention punk amongst the genres. Personally, I create in quite a few genres, and use a wide variety of tools to create both the types of sounds you’re inquiring about. For example, guitar through a Meris Enzo X for lead, sampling found sounds for a kick, etc. This information could possibly be more useful or might skew things…just a thought.
thank you all for your feedback! The survey and the bachelor thesis are focusing on electronic musical instruments and sound generation tools like synths, samplers and AI-based generators.
Ofcourse there a lot more sound generation tools like guitar, violin or the voice. I will keep that in mind!