HookTheory is a music software company built for songwriters and composers. Their core interface is a colorful MIDI piano roll that supports melodies and chord charts. They have two major products available, including a free song directory called TheoryTab and a music creation tool called HookPad. TheoryTab hosts over 50,000 user generated transcriptions of popular songs across every genre. Site visitors can search for an artist, pick a song, and explore the underlying chords + melodies to see| AudioCipher
AI MIDI generators are an emerging software category that cater specifically to songwriters. They produce MIDI material based on user parameters, using neural networks instead of hardcoded algorithms. They are generally available on web browsers, standalone apps, and as DAW plugins.Music producers favor plugins and native DAW features to web apps. Toggling between a web browser and your DAW rarely makes for a good experience. That's why we've seen a growing number of native applications in...| AudioCipher
Riffusion is an AI-powered text-to-song generator, best compared to Suno and Udio. Like those apps, Riffusion takes in lyrics and descriptive music prompts to generate songs with AI vocalists. The company launched their initial app version in December 2022, followed by a $4M seed round. They published a V2 web app in October 2023, scrapped it in early 2024 after being eclipsed by Suno's superior product. In July 2024, they released a mobile app that centered around an image-to-song generation ex| AudioCipher
AI music extension refers to recording / uploading musical content and using generative AI models to expand on that idea.Musicians can now upload ideas and overcome creative block quickly, sampling the music directly or referencing it as the starting point for their own songwriting. There are currently only a few products on the market with an AI music extender; Suno, Udio, and Soundgen. We'll cover each of them her and share tips on how to get the most value from them. This sponsored post was c| AudioCipher
Artificial intelligence is changing the way people create and listen to music. Anyone can boot up an AI song generator like Suno, Riffusion, VoiceMod and Udio to create original tracks in minutes. The broader category of text-to-music apps like our MIDI app AudioCipher have aimed to solve sample, chord and melody generation for music producers. They were built as creative inspiration tools that fit into your DAW workflow. AI text to song apps, on the other hand, seem to be driving toward the com| AudioCipher
Suno AI is the most controversial and polarizing generative AI music company in the world. They have been accused of stealing intellectual property from artists without remunerating labels, diluting the revenue streams from DSPs like Spotify and devaluing music as a whole. On the other hand, Suno was the first generative AI music app to show the world what this technology was truly capable of. No former competitor came anywhere near to compositional variety and quality of Suno. They challenged l| AudioCipher
