ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an overview of the history and the state of the art in intelligent audio and music production, with a particular emphasis on the psychoacoustics of mixing multitrack audio, automatic mixing systems and intelligent interfaces. The music lifecycle, from creation to consumption, consists loosely of composition, performance, recording, mixing, mastering, distribution and playback. The democratization of music technology has allowed musicians to produce music on limited budgets, putting decent results within reach of anyone who has access to a laptop, a microphone, and the abundance of free software on the web. Professional music production systems offer a wide range of audio effects and processors. Many of the classic audio effects were designed as a means to automate, or at least simplify, some aspects of music production. In the early 2000s, research towards Intelligent Music Production systems was in its infancy, partly because digital music production was still an emerging field.
