Over the past year, we’ve seen AI-powered music generators develop in sophistication at a breakneck pace. First, we had Refusionthen Google MusicLMof Meta MusicGenand then AI Stability Stable audio arrived at the scene.
However, this year, two new platforms have completely blown away all previous efforts: Suno and Udio. To summarize, these are all AI generation tools, trained on large libraries of existing music, that have the ability to almost instantly generate music clips based on instructions or requests provided by the user.
Where MusicLM could only produce short 20-second clips, platforms like Suno and Udio can now generate full songs on demand, complete with AI-generated lyrics and vocals. You’re able to give AI guidance on genre, style, instrumentation and lyrical content, and you can even set your own lyrics to appear in songs.
From a creative perspective, the results are decidedly mixed; a quick listen to some of the samples on Udio’s front page reveals mostly bland, uninspiring songs that you might imagine watching a joyless insurance commercial. From a purely technical perspective, though, it’s definitely impressive that these fully formed songs are being instantly summoned from the digital ether.
Here at MusicRadar, we like to make our own music, so the concept of an instant song generator isn’t something that particularly appeals to us.
Here at MusicRadar, we love to OURS I music, so the concept of an instant song generator isn’t something that particularly appeals to us. Additionally, there are a number of valid concerns about platforms like these; as they grow in sophistication, they may well threaten the livelihoods of working musicians. The question also remains as to whether they were trained on copyrighted music – both Suno and Udio have yet to confirm or deny this.
However, these concerns aside, what intrigues us about services like Udio and Suno is their potential to integrate into the music-making process as a tool to enhance our creativity – and the latest feature of introduced by both platforms can surely help us. just do that.
Both of these platforms now have the ability to take user-uploaded audio clips and build them into full songs that include user-generated material. With this feature, you can use your music to gain greater control over the AI’s output, shaping the results through prompts given along with your audio input. Currently, the feature is only available to paid subscribers of both platforms.
Listen to Udio’s demo below; in the first example, the app adds AI-generated vocals to a user-uploaded guitar lick, and in the second, it adds a rhythm and additional instruments to an original bassline. In the third, most impressive example, Udio takes a drum groove and uses this as the intro to a full rock track.
We can imagine this feature coming in handy for those stuck at a creative crossroads. Instead of using the platform to create an entire finished piece based on an initial idea—a process that feels a little creatively bankrupt—it can be helpful to throw that idea into Udio or Suno in order to discover new paths for its development, its structuring. either fleshing it out, taking inspiration from particular AI-generated track elements or even sampling the results and throwing them back into your DAW for further manipulation.
It’s not hard to imagine a tool like this being integrated into a DAW like Logic Pro or Ableton Live
As tools like these continue to develop in their capabilities and AI begins to penetrate further into the software we use every day, it’s not hard to imagine a tool like this being integrated into a DAW like Logic Pro or Ableton Live. Logic Pro’s latest update offers music creators the ability to produce AI-generated accompaniment with its Bass Player and Keyboard Player features, and Live 12 is now able to output beats, melodies and chord sequences on demand via tools its MIDI generator.
Years from now, if we’re stuck on how to develop an idea, instead of diving into our DAW library for inspiration, we can simply ask its AI assistant to intelligently scan our file of the project, analyze its musical characteristics and instantly generate a set of customized and completely unique samples or stems, adapted to work with the original idea. Whether that’s a good thing or not, we’ll let you decide.
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