Creating Music with AI: Tips and Best Alternatives

If you are interested in creating music with AI, you’ve probably realized that artificial intelligence is likely the biggest change humanity has gone through in recent years. The speed at which it evolves is so overwhelming that nowadays, it’s very challenging to even glimpse how it might develop in the future.

The music world is not exempt from this revolution. Today, Artificial Intelligence can create songs by imitating artists’ voices to the extent that inexperienced people cannot discern between real and artificial creations. 

In the realm of music composition, AI is a huge controversy, with some arguing that its use implies a loss of a song’s artistic value, while others believe it can greatly expand creativity. 

From our perspective, AI is a tool that, when used cautiously, can be very useful for composing songs. One must find a good balance between the “handmade” and the “machine-made” to avoid losing the distinctive mark that defines us as artists, which creates the charm of our music. 

There are thousands of tools that can help us in our compositions. In this article from GuitarRec Studio, we explain the AIs for creating music that we find most useful across various fields of musical composition. We’ll explore how they work and the different ways they can be used. Let’s dive in:

AI Tools for Composing and Producing Music

Suno AI

Suno is probably the best AI for music composition you can find, making it also the most dangerous. Suno does everything for you. Just give it a brief description of the composition you want, and it will create an entire song. You can specify details like structure, tempo, genre, theme, etc. You can also request it to create a song based on your lyrics.

Moreover, Suno includes personalized learning, which means it will improve its understanding of your preferences over time, creating songs that better align with your goals.

Suno is an AI for creating music that can be especially dangerous if we don’t limit its use. Everything depends on the purpose of your compositions, but from an artistic perspective, it may cause us to lose the personal and emotional touch in our compositions that gives our music its unique personality. However, restrained use can expand our creative potential.

For instance, this tool can be especially useful to unblock your inspiration when you’re unsure of how to compose a song. It can provide ideas in areas where you feel stuck and help you get started.

It might also be interesting to use it for sampling parts of the song it generates and incorporating them into your composition.

There are other alternatives similar to Suno that you can try, like Udio, Jukebox, or AIVA.

Voice Removers

Voice Removers are excellent tools, especially for creators who enjoy remixing or sampling. These AIs allow you to separate tracks from any song you provide.

They can also be helpful for tasks like extracting a particular drum sound from a song you love. They can even assist you in analyzing specific aspects of songs you like more thoroughly. Maybe you want to know the exact bass pattern of a specific song, but the other instruments make it difficult. Or you’re trying to decipher the complete instrumental set that makes up the composition.

For example, in our online music production service, we usually receive a basic vocal and instrumental recording of the song. To start producing, we use a voice remover to separate the vocals from the instrument. Although the audio may lose quality (this should be considered), it serves as a reference track.

The leading AI in this field is undoubtedly Moisés Audio. Its free version includes everything you need. There are different options such as separating vocals from instrumental tracks, separating each instrument individually, etc. Other AI tools I recommend trying are Vocalremover, LALAL.ai, or RipX.

AI in Lyric Composition (Songwriting)

Songwriting is a part of music composition that often proves frustrating for many emerging artists. Mastering AI for writing song lyrics can significantly speed up the process. Although tools like Suno already include lyric composition, I recommend using ChatBots such as ChatGPT for this purpose; you’ll be much more efficient and precise.

It’s essential to caution, once again, about the dangers of overusing Artificial Intelligence for composition. It’s not about telling the AI to write the song for you but about using it to shape YOUR ideas. Here are some functionalities you can try.

• Ask it to suggest rhyming words based on a specific context. For example, if you’re writing a love song and in one line you write, “How beautiful her blue eyes are,” but can’t think of a rhyme for “blue,” you can ask something like: “Suggest words that rhyme with ‘blue’ that make sense in this context: (…).”
• Sometimes, we struggle to fit a phrase into a measure correctly. You can ask the AI to rephrase it by changing a word or two to make everything flow seamlessly.
• You can paste your entire lyrics and ask if there’s any element that, according to its judgment, could be improved. It can help you refine various details of your song.

These are just a few ideas or tips for using AI in songwriting. You can come up with countless other questions and discover your own tips for writing songs.

ACE Studio (AI Singers)

ACE Studio is a desktop app that allows you to use MIDI and lyrics to synthesize AI voices with remarkable naturalness and expressiveness in performance. This helps musicians and producers save time and money searching for singers, making it ideal for creating demos, choruses, and other types of professional productions.

Access the ACE Studio page here.

AI Tools for Mastering

Mastering a song, like mixing, are stages of music production that are best performed by a specialized technician. However, in some cases, we may have no choice but to rely on artificial intelligence, especially for demo productions, when starting out, or when the budget is very limited.

You can opt for paid tools if you want a more professional sound, though many free tools deliver excellent results. Among the paid ones I recommend are LANDR, eMastered, or the monthly package from Slate Digital, which also offers various plugins. For mastering with AI, you have several applications and free VSTs, including BandLab, Auphonic, or MasteringBox (the latter two aren’t completely free, but their trial versions are more than sufficient).

Artificial Intelligence and Copyright in Music Creation

Before wrapping up, we’d like to briefly reflect on the current controversy surrounding AI and copyright. Many record labels argue that Artificial Intelligences function by collecting data from multiple audio and text samples found online without the proper license for these samples. Hollywood screenwriters recently held a 148-day strike demanding limitations on the use of AI in scriptwriting.

The debate centers around whether, when creating music with AI, the software or Artificial Intelligence is truly creating or whether the actual creators are the millions of artists whose information has been extracted, making its use a copyright violation. From our perspective, there’s no clear answer to AI yes or AI no. As we’ve seen, everything depends on how it’s used. AI should serve to speed up the composition process based on one’s own idea; it should not become the main artist of the song. Otherwise, what’s the point of composing music? Saying to people, “Look at this cool song I made” when, in reality, you did almost nothing?

Since it’s very difficult to regulate its use in artistic compositions, and many questions arise about how to register songs online created with AI’s help, everything falls on the ethical weight of using these tools for each person. If we’re not aware of the illicit uses of creating music with AI, we risk turning music composition into a narcissistic world where the artistic aspect takes a backseat.

You may also be interested in our article on what you need to record music at home.