On Wed, 19 Oct 2016 21:52:36 +0100
Chris Cannam <cannam(a)all-day-breakfast.com> wrote:
  On Wed, 19 Oct 2016, at 21:43, Jeremy Carter wrote:
  What does the AI community think of it though?
 Dunno about AI exactly, but the auto-mixing area is quite a popular
 topic in academia. The AES workshop on intelligent music production
 (
http://www.aes-uk.org/forthcoming-meetings/wimp2/ - hosted by the group
 I work in) covered some of this ground, to interesting but inconclusive
 ends.
 The SAFE plugins (
http://www.semanticaudio.co.uk/) are related as well:
 based on crowdsourced mappings between musical terminology and plugin
 parameters, rather than on inputs from surrounding tracks, but the
 mechanism is vaguely similar.
 I'm working on a project about shared feature requisition from tracks at
 the moment, though I don't know whether it would be directly applicable
 to this sort of use.
 Chris 
Not a recording engineer myself (and never will be) but I do know a couple.
When I tried to describe this as best I could to one today he jumped in with
"Automation. Great. Provided I'm the one who set it up and know exactly what is
happening at all times".
--
Will J Godfrey
http://www.musically.me.uk
Say you have a poem and I have a tune.
Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song.