[LAU] The future of audio plugins ?

[jonetsu]

On Wed, 19 Oct 2016 18:54:33 +0200
Tito Latini <tito.01beta at gmail.com> wrote:

> The "artistic" sensibility is difficult to simulate (also for humans),
> however I think that robot is probably a friendly (*) assistant for a
> person without experience.

Another thought about this concerns the work done by the mixing
engineer assistant.  When a client has tracks for a mixing engineer
with a Name, then the assistant, a human, will set up the mix.  The
engineer will not do that.  The assistant, according to the engineer
wishes, will organize the tracks in a preferred way, set up stems, do
basic clean up of tracks, even perhaps some multing.  Spending those
hours, even more, to set up the mix up so that when the engineer comes
in, everything is prepared to do the actual mix work.

I do not know if the assistant will also do basic sound placement and
separation, but the question about artistic input can still be valid:
to what extent the assistant work can be considered as such ?