AI Music Tools News

Kobalt 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

I tested the 5 best AI music video generators in 2026: Here's what happened

I tested Neural Frames, OneMoreShot AI, ElevenLabs Flows, Kaiber, and RunwayML. Here's the best AI music video generator for your release in 2026.

How to use Riffle: make a song in your browser, step by step

• Riffle is a free, browser-based music studio where you build a track on an infinite canvas, with no DAW install.
• You start human-first, browsing samples or playing instruments with your computer keys, then layering parts into stacks.
• The sous chef assistant suggests chords and parts and gives mix feedback, but never hands you a finished song.

How to Make an AI Music Video with OneMoreShot AI (Step-by-Step)

• OneMoreShot AI turns a finished song into a beat-synced, lip-synced music video, with you as the only person on the crew.
• The Auto Videomaker walks you through five screens, video type, song, AI artist, customize, then a full moodboard you review before any render tokens are spent.
• I tested it on a 4 minute song in June 2026, the on-screen countdown read about 60 minutes but the finished video landed in 20 to 30 minutes.

Fender Studio Pro 8.1 adds Moises stem separation, backing tracks, and vocal AI

• Moises is now built into Fender Studio Pro 8.1, its first DAW integration and the first of its kind for the company
• Three features run inside the DAW: stem separation, backing track creation, and vocal transformation across 40 artist-built voices
• No plugin to install, and you drag files between the Moises app, Moises Studio, and Fender Studio Pro

Neural Frames launches Short-Form Studio for vertical AI music videos

• Short-Form Studio ships 9 audioreactive templates built from the ground up for vertical video
• You drop in a character and lock an environment, or skip both and Neural Frames generates them from the song's mood
• You pick a template, upload a track, select a 10 to 60 second clip, and get a share-ready vertical video for TikTok, Reels, and Shorts

Abbey Road REDD showcases seven music-tech startups at SXSW London 2026

• Abbey Road REDD Labs presented seven music-tech startups at SXSW London in a Studio Four session hosted by Music Ally COO Patrick Ross
• Chaos pitched a workspace for music creators to manage sessions, splits, files, lyrics, and contacts; Forte focused on automating audio workflows
• Musical Beings showed Tembo, the wooden instrument it crowdfunded on Kickstarter earlier in 2026

The 12 Best AI Mastering Tools Worth Testing Before Release

I tested the Best AI mastering tools before release to compare masters fast, catch mix issues, and export cleaner, release-ready tracks with confidence.

The 7 Best AI Instrumental Generators in 2026 (Free and Paid)

I tested the 7 best AI instrumental generators in 2026: LANDR Layers, ElevenMusic, Suno, Moises, and more. Free and paid picks, compared by type and export.

EightSix's Brand Studio turns brand music into a data decision, not a vibe

• EightSix, a Berlin sonic branding agency, launched Brand Studio in March 2026 and calls it the first brand music intelligence system.
• The platform runs on mDNA, a framework that scores a brand's music as a sonic fingerprint across sound, pace, intensity, emotion, voice and audience.
• Five modules cover music discovery, scene matching, artist matching, consumer testing and licensing.

TONE3000 launches A2 amp modeling that runs on a $3 chip and tops blind tests

• TONE3000 launched NAM Architecture 2 (A2), a free, fully open-source amp modeling system built with Neural Amp Modeler creator Steve Atkinson.
• In a blind listening test of over 1,000 people, A2-Full scored 100, tying real recorded gear and beating Neural DSP V2, IK Multimedia ToneX and Line 6 Proxy.
• A2-Lite runs at 50% CPU on a $3 ARM Cortex-M7 chip, with sound TONE3000 says beats Neural DSP's Quad Cortex.

RoEx launches Automix Desktop, AI mixing and mastering that runs locally on your Mac

• RoEx launched Automix Desktop, a native Mac app that runs its AI mixing and mastering locally on Apple Silicon, with no uploads
• A new .amx file opens a full mixing and mastering session when you double-click it on a Mac
• RoEx says the desktop app runs 2-5x faster than its web tool and works offline for up to 24 hours

ElevenLabs signs a voice AI agreement with the Greek government

• ElevenLabs and the Greek government signed a Memorandum of Understanding, a framing agreement rather than a binding contract or a shipped product.
• The partnership covers three pillars, voice AI for public services on gov.gr, tourism marketing on Visitgreece.gr, and the preservation of regional dialects starting with Cretan.
• Cofounder Mati Staniszewski marked the deal with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis in Athens, and Digital Governance Minister Dimitris Papastergiou signed the MOU.

ONCE adds real-time copyright scanning to its AI music distribution chatbot

• ONCE replaced its release form with an AI chat agent that collects metadata and delivers to Spotify, Apple Music, and roughly 20 other DSPs.
• Real-time copyright scanning runs inside the chat via Vobile's Search and AI Song Detection API, against a library of 100-plus million assets.
• The pre-submission scan catches covers, remixes, pitch and speed shifts, mashups, and modified live recordings before a release is submitted.

Last.fm founder backs Tonada, an AI startup selling royalty-free in-store music

• Tonada exited stealth on May 27, 2026 with an undisclosed funding round backed by Last.fm founder Michael Breidenbrücker.
• The Stockholm startup generates original adaptive in-store music for retailers and ships customers like Hawaii Poké, Thai House Wok, El Birria, Convendum, and Vercel from day one.
• Tonada names ASCAP, BMI, SESAC, GEMA, and SAMI on its homepage as the per-location PRO fees it routes around.

AudioShake launches Copyright Compliance System, one week after BMI buys Soundmouse

• One API replaces three vendors for music detection, identification, and removal
• Identification module returns artist, song title, label, release date, and ISRC per segment, then exports ASCAP, BMI, SESAC, and PRS-compatible cue sheets
• Lands one week after BMI bought Soundmouse — AudioShake is positioning identification as an open API layer that any rights platform can plug into

ElevenLabs launches Music v2 with mid-track genre transitions and section-by-section composition

• Music v2 powers three ElevenLabs platforms: ElevenMusic for creators, ElevenAPI for developers, and ElevenCreative for brands
• ElevenLabs cut self-serve Music pricing by up to 50% on ElevenAPI and up to 40% on ElevenCreative, applied to both v1 and v2
• New capabilities include mid-track genre transitions, embedded sound effects and voiceovers, section-by-section long-form composition, and improved inpainting