AI is influencing just about everything, and AI music generators are finally catching up. With these tools, you input the parameters of your song and they’ll create a song for you automatically. Each track is tailored to the user’s tastes and has a unique feel. Are you ready to become the conductor of an orchestra of bots?
1 Suno (Web): Generate any kind of music for free
Suno is a free AI music generator that lets you create songs from text prompts. The output track can be in any genre, mood, and style. To use Suno, simply enter a description of the song you want to create, such as “a happy pop song about love” or “a sad ballad about heartbreak.” Suno will generate a song that matches your description.
Two of Suno’s great features are song continuation and remixes. Once you find a song you like, you can continue working on it until you have a complete song. The remix feature allows you to create a new song without straying from the original sound. Additionally, Suno can also generate lyrics and vocals with AI to add to your songs.
Suno is free to use and gives you 50 credits per day (usually enough for 10 generations). Suno songs do not require attribution for personal use, but you can pay a subscription fee to get more credits for commercial use.
2. Soundful (Web): AI Music with Custom Keys, Notes, and Beats Per Minute
Soundful generates songs based on musical criteria, not emotion, and once you’ve signed up, you can explore the catalog to find the genres and sub-genres that interest you most.
Next, Soundful will ask you to customize your song based on two factors: the first is the number of beats per minute (BPM), which sets the tempo of your music track, and the second is the note and key. You can choose the base note of your song (C, D, E, F, G, A, B) and set whether you want it to be in a major or minor key.
The song preview may be a little low quality, but that’s because it is a preview. When you save the song and download it from your Soundful library, you’ll get the mastered version with better sound quality.
Soundful also lets you create small looping tracks that can be used as perfect background music for your short videos. Check out their library of templates for inspiration, or check out global tracks added by other users.
The free version of Soundful allows you to download 10 created songs per month, but you must always attribute the music to Soundful whenever you use the tracks.
3 AIVA (Web, Windows, Linux, Mac): Step-by-step music creation
AIVA is a powerful AI music generator that gives you much more control than most other AI tools: it can create tracks based on style, chord progressions and influences, and it offers a wide range of genres, including some lesser known ones.
Once you’ve generated a song, you can edit it by changing the chord progression, rewriting the melody, changing the instruments, etc. What makes AIVA different is that it’s not designed for complete beginners: if you have a little bit of musical knowledge, you can edit the piano roll yourself or import a MIDI melody to make a complete song.
AIVA is available as a web app, but you’ll need to install the app to listen to the tunes, as you’ll likely get a message that your browser doesn’t support live playback.
A free subscription only allows three downloads per month and requires you to pay AIVA credits for songs, but a paid subscription lifts these restrictions, allows more downloads, and gives you the rights to monetize your songs.
4. Soundraw (Web): Customize your compositions
Soundraw works a little differently than other AI music generators. On the “Create Music” page, where you can change the length, tempo, and choose the vibe of your track, you essentially create guidelines. Soundraw then churns out dozens of sample tracks following these parameters. The tracks are based on tags (which can be further modified) that indicate specific samples.
All sample tracks are original creations provided to the AI by Soundraw’s team of producers, and you can play, edit, share and like each sample. You can further personalize your song customization by varying the energy of your track segments between Quiet, Mid, Intense and Extreme, depending on how you envision the dynamics and transitions between sections.
Additionally, you can duplicate sections of a song by clicking the plus icon below the selected segment on the sound wave, or delete a segment by clicking the trash icon. You can also create songs similar to samples you like to expand your options even further.
The free plan allows you to generate unlimited tracks, but if you want to download songs you’ll need to upgrade your membership.
5 Boomy (Web): Releases AI-generated songs with custom vocals
Boomy is an AI music generator that also works with vocals. First, choose your music style: Electronic Dance, Rap Beats, Lo-Fi, Global Groove, Relaxing Meditation, or Custom (you can create your own music). Depending on your selection, mood options will appear and then Boomy AI will generate the base track.
The app offers several editing options to customize your tracks, one of which is the ability to add vocals by singing directly into the app or uploading an audio file. Additionally, Boomy has an auto-vocal option that magically turns spoken audio into a complete song, a key feature that sets Boomy apart from other AI music generators.
AI-generated songs are divided into sections that can be dragged and moved to create new arrangements, copied or deleted, and you can also change the instruments used in the song to filter out sounds that the AI doesn’t need to consider when generating the track.
Once users release their tracks, Boomy automatically sends them to music streaming platforms like Spotify, Apple Music, etc. We recommend you read Boomy’s terms of service in detail to understand how revenue is shared.
Unfortunately, users on the free plan can’t download songs, but they can release three songs per month (up to 12 each), with Creator and Pro subscriptions increasing these numbers and adding even more features to Boomy.
6 Beatoven.ai (Web): Generate music from text prompts
Beatoven is one of the simplest free AI apps for generating music. Just sign up, fill in the prompts describing your song, and you can start creating a new song right away. You can then go to the main timeline editor and play the AI-generated song to further edit it by removing instruments, splitting the song into sections, changing the emotion, genre, or tempo. You can also listen to alternative track options.
Beatoven lets you customize your songs by modifying emotions. You can add new emotions or change the emotions of existing tracks. Click the play button on each card to play a preview of the emotion. Once you apply your selection, it will take a few minutes for the AI to create a new track that matches your selection from existing samples.
Once you have made your changes, you will need to click on “Create Track” to ensure your changes are applied. Beatoven allows free users to create unlimited songs, but unfortunately they cannot be downloaded. However, in addition to subscriptions, Beatoven allows you to purchase minutes and only pay for the time you use the service.
7 Loudly (Web): Quickly generate and distribute AI music
Loudly is an AI-powered music generator that can create songs in a variety of genres. It supports both ways of generating music, either by selecting a genre or generating it from a text prompt. Once you’ve created a song, you can blend it with another genre, change the tempo, energy, and length.
Loudly also offers five mastering presets: Radio, Destroy, Heaven Low and Master Punch. You can tweak each of these knobs to change the overall feel of your song. The output of Loudly almost always sounds good, but there isn’t much control beyond that.
The free subscription allows you to generate 25 songs of up to 30 seconds each per month, which can be downloaded once per month. You can choose a paid subscription to get more and longer songs, which also provide a commercial license so you can monetize your songs.
Loudly also has a distribution feature that allows you to release your songs onto music streaming platforms directly from Loudly.
8. Beware: Copyright issues are tricky with AI music
Once you’ve created an AI-generated music track, you’ll probably want to download it and use it in your projects. Depending on the app you choose and the plan you purchase, terms of use and services will likely apply. However, copyright can be tricky with AI-generated music, so keep this in mind when generating your song.
