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# User feedback

# User Feedback

## Max

### Willingness to Pay

> "I would pay \$100 for this today for plugin creator"

### Feature Ideas

* **Mobile App for Field Recording**: Designing a small mobile app for field recording and easy recording

### Comfort Level with GenAI

Ranked from most comfortable to least comfortable:

1. Advice
2. Actions in the DAW
3. Writing MIDI
4. Generating audio clips / samples
5. Generating full songs

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## Johnny

### Feature Ideas

1. **Generative Audio**
2. **Generative MIDI**

### Philosophy: Complement the Human

* Makes a lot of 4 bar loops — the question is: how do you go from a loop to a track?
* AI should generate arrangement around it

### Suno Workflow

* The killer feature was the **stem splitter**
* Upload a loop → generate 10s of ideas for tracks → favorite the best ones → split into stems
* Makes a giant Ableton session with groups for each song, layered on top of each other — almost like comping

### Variation Exploration

* Exploring lots of variations and exploring in **melodic space**
* Explore variations across different tracks — "more like this"
* What was a cool drum line? What was a cool fill?

### Other Observations

* Studio engineer stuff is downstream from the creative work — less of a hook
* Apple has a feature with 2 buttons: "Proofread" and "Rewrite" — suggests a new rewrite

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## Doug

### Starting Skepticism → Demo Won Him Over

Came in skeptical of the idea of building a DAW — a month ago told me not to do it.

* "Do we really need another DAW"
* "Is there room in the market"

The demo helped him visualize what it could be and made him want to play with it — despite being janky.

### What Resonated

* **Rust vs web** — too many web DAWs
* **Microtonal as a first-class citizen**
* **AI native**, and understanding that Ableton et al. have a lot of tech debt
* **Collaboration** — he liked Splice back in the day for async collab, and mentioned the Chuck language for realtime collab
* **AI operator / interface creation** — usually he wants a simple way to record one thing through simple effects; he "knows what he wants" but it's clunky to get there
* **AI generated MIDI + Bird** — he feels pure audio is not enough, since sheet music / music notation is still very important
* **Future Magenta models** could do audio→audio generation based on your master output as a first-class citizen
* **Drop in video** felt important — he works across gen media, not just music
* **Claude Code moment** is really good timing for this, and the TAM is a lot bigger than we thought given Suno's success