Current pop music is the result of an industrial process (teams of writers, complex recording and post processing, and of course, focus groups all along the way

Current pop music is the result of an industrial process (teams of writers, complex recording and post processing, and of course, focus groups all along the way) so a transformer system just automates some of that. The process is rather fascinating, actually, though personally I find the output mostly pretty dull. I don’t know about “democratization” — what incentive is there for someone to make that kind of stuff at home? Once upon a time you could imagine being found like, say, Bieber or Elvis, but if the factories can pump that stuff out easily, the commercial sphere will be fully populated, as with other industrial consumer products like breakfast cereal (how much cereal is sold at Farmer’s markets?). Homemade music will remain what it has always been — fun.