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.
- 25 Sept
Tool News & Updates 25 SeptElevenLabs hits $600 million in annual revenue, and its CEO says callers should know they're talking to AI
- ElevenLabs CEO Mati Staniszewski told TechCrunch on September 24, 2026 that the company is at $600 million in annual recurring revenue.
- More than 55% of that revenue comes from enterprise customers, and much of the rest from small businesses, developers, builders and creators.
- Bloomberg reported in July 2026 that ElevenLabs was in early talks over an employee tender offer at about $22 billion, double its $11 billion Series D valuation.
- 25 Sept
Tool News & Updates 25 SeptLANDR says Spotify-flagged fake streams fell 95%, and names the release patterns its fraud AI now checks
- LANDR says artificial streams flagged by Spotify on the music it distributes fell 95% between Q1 2025 and Q2 2026.
- LANDR credits several fraud-prevention steps for the drop, and says the models it built with Mila, deployed in February 2026, are one part of them.
- The system now checks for unusually high release frequency, overnight catalogs, accounts sharing devices or payout details, and metadata impersonating established artists.
- 25 Sept
Tool News & Updates 25 SeptVoice-Swap becomes the first AI voice company in DDEX, to build consent data for AI vocals
- Voice-Swap joined DDEX, the standards body behind the music industry's shared data formats, as a Full Member on September 24, 2026.
- Voice-Swap says it is the first dedicated AI voice company to take part in DDEX's standards work.
- It wants to contribute to standards for voice-model identity, consent and authorisation metadata, usage-scoped permissions, provenance and rights reporting.
- 23 Sept
Tool News & Updates 23 SeptGRAI buys Hangout, the Turntable.fm successor, before launching its own AI social streaming app
- GRAI, an AI music startup based in Warsaw, acquired the social listening app Hangout on September 22, 2026.
- The deal was a merger, so Hangout's parent Turntable Labs is now a wholly owned GRAI subsidiary.
- Hangout launched in November 2024 with more than 100 million tracks licensed from Sony Music, Universal Music, Warner Music and Merlin.
- 22 Sept
Tool News & Updates 22 SeptSnapchat now turns your chats into AI songs, and won't say what model made them
- Snap announced Chat to Song on September 21, 2026 as part of a bundle of AI features for Lens+ subscribers.
- You press and hold a message in Chat, pick Hip Hop, Rock, Country, EDM or Pop, and the app generates a song from that text.
- Snap's own screen carries the line "This feature uses generative AI" under the Create Song button.
- 18 Sept
Tool News & Updates 18 SeptLunacy launches NOVA, a cloud instrument platform that runs in your browser and your DAW
- Lunacy Audio opened NOVA on September 17, 2026 as a library of instruments that live in the cloud and work in any DAW.
- The NOVA Host plugin is free, and there are no license keys or local installs to manage.
- NOVA launches with dozens of instruments, including free ones like Zephyr Strings, Woodland Piano, Silhouettes and Chiptuner.
- 18 Sept
Tool News & Updates 18 SeptSuno users are cancelling over v6, and they blame the licensed training data
- Suno subscribers have turned on v6 since its September 9, 2026 launch, calling the output muffled, generic and soulless.
- Several users on Suno's Reddit community say they have cancelled their subscriptions or set a deadline before they do.
- v6 was built with licensed catalogues from Warner Music, BMG and Believe instead of audio scraped from the open internet, and every older model was retired.
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- 16 Sept
Tool News & Updates 16 SeptBandLab's mastering update adds 11 intensity levels and 4 engineer-built presets
- BandLab now applies each mastering preset across 11 intensity levels instead of one fixed setting.
- Four new member presets, Natural, Cinematic, Spatial and Punch, join the existing Universal, Fire, Clarity and Tape.
- The new presets were designed with Grammy-winning engineers Mandy Parnell, Mike Tucci and Maria Elisa Ayerbe.
- 16 Sept
Tool News & Updates 16 SeptAntares put AutoTune Go inside FL Studio, free on every tier including FL Cloud
- Image-Line and Antares launched AutoTune Go, a pitch correction plugin built specifically for FL Studio.
- The plugin is free for every FL Studio user, including people on the free tier of FL Cloud.
- AutoTune Go has real-time visual pitch display, vocal range auto detection, key and scale locking, and 4 Retune Speed settings.
- 16 Sept
Tool News & Updates 16 SeptSoundPatrol launched an AI takedown agent, and every request still needs a human approval
- SoundPatrol introduced an AI takedown agent that identifies, verifies, queues and tracks copyright removal requests across digital platforms.
- The agent runs on the same neural fingerprinting stack SoundPatrol deployed with Universal Music Group and Sony Music in September 2025.
- Every takedown request has to be approved by a person before it is sent, so the automation stops at the paperwork.
- 16 Sept
Tool News & Updates 16 SeptUniversal Audio put 4-track stem separation in the free version of LUNA 3.0
- LUNA 3.0 puts 4-track stem separation, a piano roll and Strip Silence into the free version of Universal Audio's DAW.
- The $199 one-time LUNA Studio raises stem separation to 6 tracks and adds audio-to-MIDI, lyric transcription and chord extraction.
- Chord extraction runs on Moises technology and maps detected chords onto LUNA's Chord Track.
- 15 Sept
Tool News & Updates 15 SeptAudioShake now writes the first draft of a cue sheet inside Music Reports' Cuetrak
- Music Reports' Cuetrak platform now accepts a media file upload and returns a draft cue sheet built by AudioShake.
- AudioShake separates the music out from dialogue, effects and crowd noise first, then identifies the recording in each cue.
- Cuetrak adds the publishing data and stages the result for review and distribution.