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.
- 29 Sept
Tool News & Updates 29 SeptEngram launches on Kickstarter as a $770 offline AI sampler built for model bending
- Thoughtful Things launched Engram on Kickstarter on September 26, 2026, with a $10,600 funding goal.
- The $675 early-bird tier sold out, and 40 production units are now offered at $770, with delivery estimated for May 2027.
- Engram runs its audio models on the device itself, with no internet connection, app or subscription.
- 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.
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- 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.
- 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.
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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.