AI Music Tool News: Latest Launches & Updates
The latest AI music tool launches, new features, partnerships, and pricing changes, newest first. Just the news, vetted for musicians.
- 10 Jul
Tool News & Updates 10 JulAudiotool 3.0 rebuilds its browser DAW for multiplayer, with an open-source AI SDK
- Audiotool 3.0 launched publicly on July 8, 2026, a ground-up rebuild of its free, browser-based DAW.
- It brings real-time multiplayer music creation to browsers and tablets, with native mobile versions coming soon.
- NEXUS, a new open-source SDK, lets anyone build instruments, effects, games, and AI-connected tools inside the platform.
- 10 Jul
Tool News & Updates 10 JulFL Studio 2026 lands with a smarter Gopher AI assistant and a no-AI-training pledge
- FL Studio 2026 launched on July 7, 2026, free for all existing license holders under Image-Line's Lifetime Free Updates policy.
- The Gopher AI assistant now takes multi-step instructions like routing mixer channels, setting levels, and generating Piano Roll content, and it does not train on user data.
- Image-Line says none of the projects stored in FL Cloud will be used to train AI.
- 06 Jul
Tool News & Updates 06 JulElevenMusic adds 4 Tools: Voice to Song, Loop Studio, Genreshift, and Unplugged
- ElevenLabs launched Tools on ElevenMusic on July 2, 2026, and all 4 are live in the app now.
- Voice to Song turns a rough phone-recorded vocal into a studio-quality track and keeps your melody and lyrics.
- Loop Studio generates a clean instrumental loop from a genre pick and a BPM.
- 06 Jul
Tool News & Updates 06 JuliZotope joins Boris FX, and your RX and Ozone licenses stay active
- Boris FX acquired iZotope on July 2, 2026, taking the maker of RX and Ozone out of the Native Instruments family.
- All iZotope licenses and subscriptions stay active, and support continues through the same channels and team.
- iZotope says it remains committed to selling both perpetual licenses and subscriptions under Boris FX.
- 03 Jul
Tool News & Updates 03 JulMadverse v2.0 lets independent artists keep 100% of their royalties
- Madverse relaunched as v2.0 on July 1, 2026, pitching one place for independent artists and labels to release, manage, promote, and monetise their music.
- Both subscription tiers now pay out 100% of royalties, up from 85% on Creator and 95% on Professional.
- The Creator plan costs Rs299 per month (Rs99 for the first month); the Professional plan is Rs3,999 per year.
- 03 Jul
Tool News & Updates 03 JulSuno explores a developer API to embed AI music generation in other apps
- Suno Chief Product Officer Jack Brody said on July 1, 2026 that the company is exploring a developer API, starting with a curated group of partners.
- Suno has no official public API today; developers have only built unofficial wrappers around its platform.
- The API would let outside apps send text prompts to Suno's models and receive finished audio, embedding generation into their own products.
- 01 Jul
Tool News & Updates 01 JulViberate launches an official MCP server, opening its music data to ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini
- Viberate launched an official MCP server so any compatible AI assistant can query its data in plain language.
- The database covers 11 million artists, 100 million songs, 19 million playlists, 160,000 labels, and 7,000 festivals.
- A free tier gives basic access, and a paid plan adds more than 20 tools with a 20% founding discount for the first three months.
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- 26 Jun
Tool News & Updates 26 JunOpenStage launches an MCP that connects your fan data to Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini
- OpenStage launched OpenStage MCP, letting artists connect their fan data to Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini and have the AI read, analyze, and act on it.
- The platform already powers fan data for more than 600 artists and 30 million fans, including Paul McCartney, Lana Del Rey, and Bad Bunny.
- In early testing, one manager's single prompt surfaced that an artist's fanbase had tripled in one city over six months.
- 26 Jun
Tool News & Updates 26 JunSuno Spark explained: grants, benefits, and the fine print for artists
- Suno Spark gives selected unsigned artists grants from the thousands to the tens of thousands of dollars, plus marketing money, writing camps, and a dedicated partner manager.
- Artists keep creative control and the commercial rights to their songs and pick their own distributor.
- Spark's fine print bars participants from portraying Suno negatively "during the Term and thereafter," with no end date.
- 25 Jun
Tool News & Updates 25 JunReactional Music wins $2.8M EU grant to scale in-game music monetization
- Reactional Music won a €2.5 million ($2.8 million) grant from the European Innovation Council.
- The EIC can add up to €6.5 million ($7.4 million) in equity later, taking the potential total near €9 million.
- Reactional's patented engine personalizes in-game music and reacts to gameplay in real time, without altering master recordings.
- 23 Jun
Tool News & Updates 23 JunMureka rebrands as the first 'AI-native music platform,' adding listening to generation
- Mureka announced on June 22, 2026 that it is rebranding as the first "AI-native music platform," built to handle creation and listening in one place.
- The pitch is closing a loop the AI music industry split apart, where songs were generated on one side and listened to on the other.
- Mureka's next-generation model, V10, is set to launch in Q3 2026, alongside Text-to-Song, Remix, a multi-track Studio, a desktop app, Music-to-Video, and a developer API.
- 23 Jun
Tool News & Updates 23 JunRTM Audio launches UAI, an AI music detector that issues a signed certificate per track
- RTM Audio launched UAI, an AI music detector that flags a track as AI only when two separate checks, one on production and one on the vocal, agree.
- Every UAI verdict produces a cryptographically signed certificate bound to a track's ISRC, formatted for EU AI Act disclosure and DDEX metadata export.
- RTM Audio reports a 0.06% false-positive rate across 8,236 masters in internal validation, with five tracks hard-flagged.
- 17 Jun
Tool News & Updates 17 JunWarner Chappell licenses its production catalog to AI brand-music startup EightSix
- EightSix named Warner Chappell Production Music as the first major music partner for its Brand Studio platform.
- Warner Chappell Production Music brings more than 135,000 tracks across 120-plus catalogs into the platform.
- The catalog sits inside Brand Studio as a premium module brands can activate without a separate licensing step.
- 17 Jun
Tool News & Updates 17 JunPush Push used AudioShake to lift a 35-year-old vocal out of a finished mix
- Push Push reunited after more than 30 years to rework "Euphoric Plunder in Bliss," a track from their 1992 debut album.
- The original recording had every instrument and vocal locked inside a single finished mix, with no separate stems to work from.
- AudioShake separated the original vocal and guitar straight from the mixed master, with no session files.
- 16 Jun
Tool News & Updates 16 JunVermillio launches an 'AI-Guardrails-as-a-Service' SDK for music rightsholders
- Vermillio launched a software development kit it calls "AI-Guardrails-as-a-Service" for the music industry.
- The tech lets artists set rules for how their name, image, likeness, and voice can be used by generative AI models.
- It also gives labels, artists, and streaming services tools to detect and attribute music used in AI tracks.
- 15 Jun
Tool News & Updates 15 JunSuno's product chief details its AI safeguards ahead of the first label-licensed model
- Suno chief product officer Jack Brody published a June 11, 2026 LinkedIn post detailing the company's platform-integrity safeguards as it preps its first label-licensed model.
- Brody said Suno deliberately does not use artist names as training metadata, under a policy it calls Original Creation, By Design.
- Suno says it screens uploads with Audible Magic, Musixmatch, and ACRCloud, and is building audio fingerprinting, watermarking, and impersonation detection.
- 12 Jun
Tool News & Updates 12 JunKobalt founder Willard Ahdritz leads a seed round in Madverse, India's AI distribution platform with 200,000 artists
- Willard Ahdritz, founder of Kobalt, leads Madverse's Series Seed round through Ahdritz Capital; the amount is undisclosed
- Madverse represents over 200,000 independent artists and labels across more than 45 countries, up from 150,000 in January
- The platform's userbase grew 25% in the past month, and its artists have passed 3 billion combined streams