Guides, deep dives, and opinions on AI audio editing, stem separation, podcast production, and why local-first software matters.
Vendor lock-in is the oldest trick in enterprise software. AI audio tools that hardcode a single provider are not tools — they are subscriptions. Here is what BYO-key architecture means in practice.
You type what you want. The AI figures out which audio operations to run, in which order, and executes them against your session. Here is exactly how that translation happens.
The typical podcast post-production workflow takes 4–6 hours per episode. Here is how to use an AI audio editor to collapse that to under 30 minutes without sacrificing quality.
Stem separation used to require a mixing console and a human engineer. Now Demucs can split a stereo mix into vocals, drums, bass, and other in seconds — and it runs entirely on your laptop.
Cloud AI audio tools upload your stems to third-party servers, lock you into subscriptions, and go offline when the API is down. Local-first AI audio editing changes all of that.
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