AI Music Tools News
Hands-on coverage of AI music tools, vetted for musicians.
I cover the latest tool launches and updates, write step-by-step tutorials, rank the best AI music tools by use case, run head-to-head comparisons, and publish explainers on how the tools work. Every recommendation comes from hands-on testing.
- 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.
- 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.
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- 15 Sept
Tool News & Updates 15 SeptBeatoven.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.
- 15 Sept
Tool News & Updates 15 SeptLALAL.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.
- 15 Sept
Tool News & Updates 15 SeptSuno 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.
- 14 Sept
Tool News & Updates 14 SeptElevenLabs 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.
- 11 Sept
Tool News & Updates 11 SeptMusiMap 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.
- 10 Sept
Tool Roundup 10 SeptSuno mastering: the 6 best AI mastering tools to make Suno tracks release-ready (2026)
- Suno has no mastering module: Studio 2.0 ships 7 effects and no limiter or loudness meter, and the Remaster button regenerates the song instead of making the file louder.
- A raw Suno WAV sits well under Spotify's -14 LUFS playback level, so the track plays quieter than the song before it until you master it.
- SoundBoost ranks first for browser-only Suno creators: a Spotify reference or a typed prompt, about 1 minute per render, $48 a year for unlimited masters.
- 09 Sept
Tutorial 09 SeptHow to master a song online with SoundBoost AI mastering, step by step
- SoundBoost masters a song from a typed or spoken sentence, a Spotify reference link, or both, in about 1 minute per render.
- Upload a 24-bit WAV with 6 dB of headroom, pick the loudest 30 seconds as the peak moment, then choose 1 of 6 AI mastering engineers.
- A mastering prompt can now remove or rebalance stems, so 'drop the drums and push the vocals forward' runs in the same pass as the master.
- 09 Sept 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.
- 09 Sept
Comparison 09 SeptI compared Suno v6 vs. v5.5 – here's what you need to know:
- Suno v6 sounds better than Suno v5.5. The fear that a licensed model would cost audio quality did not hold up in a 27-file test across 7 genres.
- v6 generated a full 2:30 to 3:41 song in 10 to 20 seconds on every run, across all 3 v6 models, where v5.5 never came close.
- v6 bends an uploaded voice to fit the genre, so a Voices clone sounds better than on v5.5 and further from your own timbre at the same time.
- 08 Sept
Tool News & Updates 08 SeptChartmetric 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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The AI music tool news category lists every launch, feature update, partnership, and pricing change, newest first. New stories go up most weekdays, and the Wednesday AI Musicpreneur newsletter rounds up the best tools and tutorials of the week.
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Yes. Reviews, tutorials, and comparisons come from hands-on use on real music projects. Each tool page in the AI music tools directory lists pricing, pros, and cons from that testing. Launch coverage is marked as news; the review follows once I've used the tool.