Make a song

Simple

1. 1

   Open Music and stay on Simple. Describe the song in one sentence: the genre, the mood, what it is about, and the voice if you care ("a melancholy synth-pop song about leaving a small town at night, warm female vocal"). Out of ideas? Surprise me writes one.

2. 2

   Pick the length and the number of takes, then Generate. The songwriter writes the lyrics, the style and a title for you, included in the price, and the song starts rendering.

Custom

Custom gives you the two fields the engine actually reads. Style is how it sounds: a short comma list with the sung language first, then the vocal, the genre, a tempo, the instruments and the mood. Lyrics are only the words to be sung, shaped by section tags on their own lines: [Intro], [Verse], [Pre-Chorus], [Chorus], [Bridge], [Outro], which the Syntax menu inserts. Leave the lyrics empty and press Surprise me to get a draft for your style, free; with lyrics in the box the same button becomes Enhance, which polishes them and needs a paid plan.

• Everything in the lyrics gets sung: keep instructions, chords and notes in Style, never in Lyrics.

• A chorus that comes back twice is what makes a song stick.

• About one sung line every four or five seconds: the gauge under the lyrics warns when there are more lines than the length can hold.

• Describe a sound with genre, era and instrument words rather than an artist's name.

• Instrumental removes the vocals: the lyrics are left out.

Length, takes and price

• Length goes from 30 seconds to 4 minutes, in steps of 30. A song can find its ending a little before the length you chose; the Library shows its real length.

• Music One costs 3 credits per started 30 seconds, per take, billed on the length you choose: 6 credits for one minute, 12 for two, 24 for four. Generate shows the exact total before you click.

• Two takes by default, two performances of the same song, so you can keep the better one. One take costs half.

• A take that fails or never finishes is refunded on its own; the other take still delivers.

Where songs land

Every take is saved to your Library as an MP3, with its title, style and lyrics, and listed under Your songs in Music. Play it, download it, share it, press Score a film to start a Cinema film on it, or Remix in Custom to reopen the song with the same style, lyrics and length: change a word and generate again.