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Sometimes doing the work is easier than shopping for a tool that does the work for us.

Particularly when the application is a corner case or requires aesthetic judgment.

Of course in the case of sound effects shopping is a well established practice. Sound libraries and foley artists are widely available.

Finally, sound is much harder than images because psychoacoustics are more complex than the mechanical descriptions while human visual experience is a massively filtered set of stimuli.

We chunk the visible into symbols/archetypes like chairs and trees to a much much greater degree than we chunk sounds into symbols.

What is the sound of a chair? Of a tree?

LLM music is heavily dependent on genre. There is no genre for SFX. Good luck.



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