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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.

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  1. Beatoven.ai co-founder Mansoor Rahimat Khan beside the beatoven.ai logo after the company discontinued its consumer service
    Tool News & Updates 15 Sept

    Beatoven.ai has discontinued its B2C service after 6 years, with the core team moving to Rusk Media

    • Beatoven.ai discontinued its consumer service in August 2026, 6 years after the company started, announced by co-founder and CEO Mansoor Rahimat Khan on LinkedIn.
    • The core team has been absorbed by Rusk Media, the Mumbai digital entertainment company that raised 100 crore rupees led by Nazara Technologies in June 2026.
    • The intellectual property, including the Maestro model and the company's music intelligence work, stays with Beatoven Private Limited and is being licensed to businesses.
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  2. The Neko wireless device plugged into an electric guitar jack while a player performs in a dark studio
    Tool News & Updates 15 Sept

    LALAL.AI put real-time stem separation inside a $349 guitar device, fully offline

    • LALAL.AI showed its first embedded hardware integration at IBC2026 in Amsterdam, which ran September 11 to 14, 2026.
    • The stem-separation engine runs natively on Neko, a pocket-sized wireless guitar device from UAE-based Neko Engineering, splitting vocals, drums, bass and guitar in real time.
    • Processing happens on the device's built-in neural chip, so there is no upload, no cloud latency and no per-use inference cost.
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  3. The shop.suno.com storefront showing a COMING SOON headline above a mailing list signup form
    Tool News & Updates 15 Sept

    Suno is opening a merch store, 5 days after switching on its licensed v6 models

    • A storefront at shop.suno.com surfaced on Monday, September 14, 2026, carrying the Suno logo above the words "Coming soon", a mailing list signup and a password gate.
    • The page credits Fourthwall, the creator commerce platform that also runs shops for New York Magazine, Vox, SanDisk and the Smithsonian.
    • Suno told Music Business Worldwide it had no details to share about the project.
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  4. ElevenLabs Music v2.5 launch graphic showing the Eleven Music logo above a glowing blue sphere
    Tool News & Updates 14 Sept

    ElevenLabs launches Music v2.5, and says the UMG deal had nothing to do with it

    • ElevenLabs released Music v2.5 on September 14, 2026, four days after announcing a multi-year licensing deal with Universal Music Group.
    • The company added a note to its own announcement stating that the UMG agreement is separate from Music v2.5.
    • ElevenLabs says v2.5 beat Music v2 in a blind test across 47,885 paired takes, with the widest gap in vocal-led and acoustic-heavy genres.
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  5. MusiMap brand visual showing a track analysed into genre, tempo, emotion, energy and language tags
    Tool News & Updates 11 Sept

    MusiMap relaunches with 4 music intelligence tools and 1m hand-analysed songs

    • MusiMap announced four products on September 10, 2026: MusiTag, MusiSearch, MusiProfile and MusiTrace.
    • Ty Roberts, formerly of Gracenote and Universal Music Group, has joined as chief commercial officer.
    • The company was founded in 2008 by Belgian musicologists, drawing on research that dates back to 1986.
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  6. Suno's official v6 launch art, the v6 logo in neon above the line Whatever you want, get it done with v6
    Tool News & Updates 09 Sept

    Suno v6 release date: v6, v6-wild and v6-mini go live on September 9, 2026, and every older model retires

    • Suno v6 arrives on September 9, 2026 as a family of 3 models, v6 and v6-wild on the Pro plan and v6-mini on the free plan, the first time Suno has shipped more than one model at once.
    • v6 adds plain-language editing of a finished song, multi-source mashups, sampling in one workflow, and prompts built from audio, images or video instead of text alone.
    • Suno confirmed in its launch post that every previous model retires and the platform moves entirely onto the v6 generation.
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  7. Chartmetric Flow landing page showing the ask-anything prompt box and the label logos listed as customers
    Tool News & Updates 08 Sept

    Chartmetric launches Flow, an AI agent for music data, from $60 a month

    • Chartmetric launched Flow on September 8, 2026, after two years of internal development
    • Flow answers plain-language questions against Chartmetric's own dataset, cross-referencing 14 million artists
    • Pricing runs $60 a month standalone, with Flow Lite inside the $150 Premium plan and full Flow inside the $180 Ultra plan
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  9. Roland Melody Flip running as a plugin inside a DAW session on a laptop, showing its palette browser over a track arrangement
    Tool News & Updates 08 Sept

    Roland ships Melody Flip with 250 palettes, free on every Roland Cloud tier

    • Roland released Melody Flip on September 4, 2026, built on Sony Computer Science Laboratories research
    • The release version ships with roughly 250 palettes, each carrying a connected melody, chord, bass and drum part
    • Reference Search analyses an imported track for tempo, key, chord progression, genre and mood, then recommends matching palettes
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  10. Sonorie homepage with the describe an audio effect prompt box and example requests for compressors, filters and synths
    Tool News & Updates 08 Sept

    Sonorie builds a working VST3 plugin from a chat description, for $19.99 a month

    • Sonorie turns a plain-language description into a compiled VST3, AU or CLAP plugin for Windows, macOS and Linux
    • The service writes C++ DSP code, compiles it to WebAssembly, and lets you play the result in the browser before exporting
    • Generation runs on S1, an in-house model split into S1 Pro for complex builds and S1 Mini for simpler ones
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  11. Google's Lyria 3.5 launch graphic showing a generated K-pop track inside the Gemini app
    Tool News & Updates 05 Sept

    Google put Lyria 3.5 in the Gemini app and opened the API to developers

    • Google made Lyria 3.5 available in the Gemini app and the Gemini API on September 4, 2026.
    • The model had been limited to Google Flow Music since its July 29 launch, so this is a distribution change rather than a new model.
    • Gemini app users can now describe a genre, pick vocal or instrumental, and choose a short or longer track.
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  12. The Audacity 4 launch page showing the rebuilt multitrack editor running on a laptop
    Tool News & Updates 04 Sept

    Audacity 4 is out, and it ships with no AI features at all

    • Audacity 4 launched on September 3, 2026, rebuilt on Qt and running natively on macOS, Windows and Linux.
    • Clips can now overlap, and the release adds clip grouping, ripple editing and non-destructive editing.
    • The core app contains no AI features. Audacity's stem separation and transcription come from a separate OpenVINO plugin pack.
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  13. The Songscription homepage showing an upload box that turns audio files or YouTube links into guitar notation
    Tool News & Updates 04 Sept

    Songscription is signing publishing deals before anyone sues it, starting with Spirit Music Group

    • Songscription has signed licensing deals with independent publishers, and the Spirit Music Group deal is the first one made public.
    • CEO Andrew Carlins says publishers "seem more keen to license us than some other AI services".
    • Carlins puts the size of the opportunity at "well over 90% of songs written are untranscribed today".
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