I agree with your DAW UX suggestion very much. I think the writing is on the wall, and Suno is doing exactly that with their Suno Studio.

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mh- 3 hours ago | parent [-]

I think this wasn't done earlier because the Suno (etc.) models couldn't output stems.

They could attempt messy stem splitting like all of the other tools have done for a few years now, but those aren't really usable in a production setting beyond small samples you were already going to chop/distort.

	▲	filoleg 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I agree, the tech was likely not there at the time. I am not sure if it is there yet either, but imo your UX vision for it is the correct one, so if the tech is still not quite there yet, it is just a matter of time. But the AI-powered DAW UX is imo where it will eventually end up.