The #1 Text to MIDI Generator Plugin for Music Producers
AudioCipher is a text-to-MIDI melody and chord progression generator. This DAW plugin helps you create, save, and organize your best ideas.| AudioCipher
AudioCipher is a text-to-MIDI melody and chord progression generator. This DAW plugin helps you create, save, and organize your best ideas.| AudioCipher
OpenAI’s chatbot can generate lyrics, chord progressions, and guitar tabs. But ChatGPT music output isn't real.| AudioCipher
AI songwriting tools come in many shapes and sizes. This article focuses on AI songwriting tools for musicians, defining the most common workflows and sharing tips about the most popular apps. Most musicians don't want to automate away their creativity. If they're using AI tools, it's to help break through steps in the process where they tend to get stuck. This sponsored post was created in partnership with Hooktheory, who provided free copies of their software for testing and covered time spen| AudioCipher
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
A musical cryptogram is a series of music notes generated from text. When someone refers to "the words of a song" we usually think of lyrics. But what if there was a second, more mysterious type of musical word? A word that was never spoken aloud and yet, could be heard by those with ears to hear...AudioCipher published a MIDI generator plugin in 2020 that lets users transform words into melodies and chord progressions. This VST is designed for use with a DAW and helps music producers overcome c| AudioCipher
Drum programming is a special kind of skill. A lot of musicians know how to create melodic hooks and chord progressions, but struggle when it comes time to finding the right sounds and building a drum loop.Recent breakthroughs in artificial intelligence make this process a lot easier, whether it's through rapidly sequencing new drum parts or generating one-shots that have never been heard before. The idea of working with AI drums won't appeal to everyone. Purists have been known to look down on| AudioCipher
The history of AI text-to-music apps can be traced back to a pivotal moment in April 2023, when WavTool's AI DAW debuted with a GPT-4 chat assistant. It was able to help compose midi, generate instruments, control effects, and run activities in the workstation through AI chat commands. WavTool announced a new round of features in January 2024 that got us excited to revisit the app and revamp this article. Then in June 2024, they launched a new stem splitting product called SunoDAW (apparently wi| AudioCipher
Neutone is one of those rare AI music companies that creates software around the needs of musicians instead of the general public. While most companies were building web browser applications and trying to "disrupt the industry", Neutone took a road less traveled and released free, high quality AI audio VSTs.Their first plugin version was developed by Japanese music tech company Qosmo back in May 2022. Neutone eventually branched off and became their own company. They have continued to make updat| AudioCipher
AudioCipher is a text-to-MIDI melody and chord progression generator. This DAW plugin helps you create, save, and organize your best ideas.| AudioCipher
Uberduck is an AI voice generation company that offers text-to-speech features, AI rappers, voice cloning and voice-to-voice conversion. The website enjoyed viral popularity in 2021 Q4, hosting a small collection of celebrity voice AI models that anyone could use for free. Site visitors made typed in lyrics, generated audio files, and could edit the AI vocals in their DAW. As one might expect, the internet rushed in. AI voice training became a kind of underground obsession in Discord channels. P| 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
When it comes to AI tools for music production, audio separation is one of the most commonly used amongst song writers, producers and audio engineers. Sesh.FM is the first web app to offer a stable and completely free, unlimited, and browser-based suite of AI stem splitter products. No user registration is required and downloads are completely free. For those not familiar with the company, Sesh is a browser DAW that lets multiple users collaborate in the same project at once. They're curre...| AudioCipher
Fadr launched their new VST and web application DrumGPT near the end of April 2025. The plugin is a companion to their popular SynthGPT plugin, both centered on the use of text prompts to generate never-before-heard virtual instruments. They are the first and only company to offer text-to-instrument synthesis in the DAW, along with bonus tools for stem extraction and remixing. We've shared a detailed summary of their SynthGPT plugin in a previous article here. DrumGPT - The Hottest Ai-Powered Mu| AudioCipher
FL Studio is a digital audio workstation specializing in loops and sample based production. Championed by beat makers in the electronic and trap scenes, it's one of the three most popular DAWs, the other two being Ableton and Logic Pro.FL Studio 25 was released as a public beta on March 13, 2025. On April 11th, beta V3 was released with a powerful new AI text support feature called Gopher. AI Gopher STUNS in FL Studio 25 Beta 3! Epic UpdateGopher has actually been around since August 23, 202...| AudioCipher
Splice is an innovative music platform that gives creators access to high-quality samples on demand. Their massive audio library is rich with metadata, making it easy for musicians, producers and DJs to find loops and one shots that match their existing project. Trouble is, you can filter by genre, BPM and key signature and still return hundreds of samples. A friend of mine was complaining about this recently and I pointed them to the Similar Sample feature. They were shocked that after years on| AudioCipher
Sample managers are a category of software used by musicians and digital audio professionals, to help keep their audio files organized and accessible. Musicians often lose time combing through poorly named project directories and audio files, searching for a specific sample or idea. Yet they continue to play out the same unhealthy pattern at the end of their session, labeling a new project in a way that will be recognize to understand in the future. There's an underlying problem shared by DAWs a| AudioCipher
You know that feeling when you come up with a melody, but forget it moments later? A classic trick is to record yourself humming the idea and build on the concept when you have time. But what if you could turn that poorly hummed melody into a realistic audio sample of a flute or violin performance? Tone Transfer is an online music app powered by machine learning and designed by Google’s Magenta Team. The app lets users upload audio of a single voice or instrument, then play it back through ...| AudioCipher
Meta's had a tough time getting people to buy into their VR Metaverse over the couple years, but all's not lost. The company has been making up for some of their missteps by offering free access to pre-trained models and open source artificial intelligence tools. Their move to introduce MusicGen in June 2023 was a direct challenge to Google's MusicLM team. Meta proved they could give users simple and controllable music generation based on any text description.During mid-March 2024, the music cop| AudioCipher
Historians will look back at 2023 as the year text-to-music software made its big debut. AudioCipher published version 3.0 of the text-to-MIDI VST in January, followed by AI services like MusicLM, MusicGen and Chirp in May, June and July. But what if a developer flipped the script and published an AI music-to-text application instead? AI music companies like Moises have explored this previously, but these were lyric-to-text transcription services, like karaoke or the closed captions that appear| AudioCipher
Over the past few months, we've been covering OpenAI applications like MuseNet and Jukebox. These are some of the most cutting edge AI music applications to date. But OpenAI wasn't the first company to venture into this space. Google started publishing generative music applications a few years earlier, under the name Magenta. The Magenta Team first presented the machine learning model at a Moogfest workshop in 2016. A year later, Google Brain researcher Douglas Eck gave the following talk on Ten| AudioCipher
The ultimate collaborator in music | Music AI SandboxGoogle announced their new Music AI Sandbox tool on May 14th 2024 during its annual I/O developer conference. The promotion included endorsements from music industry heavyweights like Wyclef Jean, Mark Rebillet, and Donald "Childish Gambino" Glover. The artists focused on the value of writing faster and with less hassle. Gambino was quoted saying "You can make a mistake faster. That’s all you really want at the end of the day, at least in...| AudioCipher
Riffusion is an AI-powered text-to-song generator, on par with Suno and Udio. Like those apps, Riffusion accepts lyrics and descriptions of music styles. It uses those prompts to generate short music clips with singing, rapping and screaming AI vocalists. They launched V1 in December 2022, followed by a $4M seed round and V2 in October 2023. Near the end of July 2024, they released a new mobile app that centered around an image-to-song generation experience. Riffusion is moving away from the...| 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
Celebrities lashed out at Apple this week in response to an advertisement for their new iPad Pro. The short promotional trailer depicted a trumpet, grand piano, guitar, and record player being slowly crushed by a hydraulic press. When the plates finally separated for the big reveal, all that remained was a thin, sleek Apple tablet. That didn't go over so well with artists in the anti-AI camp.Crush! | iPad Pro | AppleMany interpreted the ad as advocating for "crushing the arts" with technology. A| AudioCipher
There's been a surging interest in AI chat bots these past couple of years, but imagine how helpful it could be to have a full on AI bandmate!AI can take on any personality, so you can decide what kind of person you want to be creative with and then make music. When you get stuck, you have someone to talk to and share the ideas with. They can compose ideas in a given style and help you move a project along. AI Bandmates might not be able to solve every problem we have on day one, but they will b| 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
DataMind Audio launched in 2024 and they’ve already proven to be one of the biggest innovators in the domain of AI audio plugins. Their flagship product, The Combobulator, is a neural audio synthesis VST built for sound designers and experimental electronic music producers.In this article we’ll share an overview of the interface, including full video tutorials that show you how the program works. Have a listen to some of the high-fidelity sounds the Combobulator can create right within y...| 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
Capture your vocal and musical ideas in real time with these audio to MIDI plugins. All DAWs are supported.| AudioCipher
Here are the best text-to-music apps in 2023| AudioCipher
Text-to-speech apps like Siri have been around for decades, but they were never able to hold a tune. Recent improvements to AI voice models and AI generated music have create fresh demand for AI singing voice generators. The market is responding with a wide range of different tools and solutions. AI web apps like Suno and Riffusion combine text-to-music with AI singing voices. Users describe the genre or style of music they want to hear and have a song in 30-60 seconds. The AI vocals match the i| AudioCipher
Apple recently acquired a big AI music company. Here's what music producers can expect in the coming years.| AudioCipher
