Nova Reyes
Nova Reyes edits The Signal and reviews AI music tools after a decade scoring indie games and short films; still owns four broken synthesizers.
AI Music Regulation Is a Metadata Problem, Not a Courtroom One
Somewhere between your final master and your release date, there is now a checkbox. It asks whether the recording was created with generative tools, and in what proportion, and the answer you give…
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Kuro Kasetto Artist Profile: How to Build a Generative Composition Rig Around a Norns Shield
There is a click in this kind of recording that is not a drum machine. It is a solenoid — a spring-loaded metal plunger the size of a AA battery — hitting something thin and resonant, a tin lid or a…
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Who Actually Played That? Authenticity, Trust, and AI in Music Production
You have watched a version of this clip. A gear brand posts a sixty-second promo: hands on a fretboard, a warm strummed figure in open D, a bass sitting a little too politely underneath, a hi-hat that…
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Does an Enterprise AI Partnership Change What Voice AI Can Actually Do for You?
The demo voice was flawless. It usually is. Warm mid-range, breath in the right places, no robotic vowel snap on the word "account." Then someone on the call asked to hear it over the actual phone…
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AI Voice Cloning, Step by Step: Where Brand Consistency Actually Breaks
The German cut came back three decibels hotter than the English one, brighter in the top end, with half a second less air before the first word. Same script, same brand, same week.
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The 20 kHz Shelf: What a Spectrogram Actually Proves About AI Music Generation
The screenshot landed in a group chat at 1am with three words attached: look at that. It was a spectrogram of a track that had done well enough for strangers to have opinions about it, and someone had…
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The Noisy 2.6 Synth Update: Is the Expression in the Engine, or in the Effects?
The patch was a bowed metal thing — filtered noise pushed into a resonator sitting somewhere near D, no oscillator in the traditional sense anywhere in the signal path — and for about ten minutes I…
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AI-Generated Music Bans Aren't About Taste — They're About the Math
Last Tuesday I set a kitchen timer for sixty minutes and tried to bury my own hard drive. One text prompt after another, minor variations, no listening back beyond a few seconds to confirm the render…
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The AI-Generated Music Statistics Everyone Quotes — and the Thin Source Underneath
There is a number that has quietly become the load-bearing wall of every AI-and-music panel this year: the claim that a majority of tracks uploaded to a major streaming service each day are now…
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