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AI's influence on music gear may be bigger than we thought.

By Alec Hively Nov. 15, 2026 11:30 am EST Dragos Condrea/Getty Images Add Engadget on Google: Google Discover

Much has been made of artificial intelligence's intrusion into the music space. Most have focused on agentic AI's song generation capabilities, with proponents proclaiming the dawn of horizonless creativity and detractors decrying mass intellectual theft. And although the AI-slop flooding your Spotify app grabs all the headlines, it is the waves of AI-generated software flooding the audio engineering landscape that may have a more lasting impact.