AI Music Tools News

Viberate launches an official MCP server, opening its music data to ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini

• Viberate launched an official MCP server so any compatible AI assistant can query its data in plain language.
• The database covers 11 million artists, 100 million songs, 19 million playlists, 160,000 labels, and 7,000 festivals.
• A free tier gives basic access, and a paid plan adds more than 20 tools with a 20% founding discount for the first three months.

OpenStage launches an MCP that connects your fan data to Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini

• OpenStage launched OpenStage MCP, letting artists connect their fan data to Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini and have the AI read, analyze, and act on it.
• The platform already powers fan data for more than 600 artists and 30 million fans, including Paul McCartney, Lana Del Rey, and Bad Bunny.
• In early testing, one manager's single prompt surfaced that an artist's fanbase had tripled in one city over six months.

Suno Spark explained: grants, benefits, and the fine print for artists

• Suno Spark gives selected unsigned artists grants from the thousands to the tens of thousands of dollars, plus marketing money, writing camps, and a dedicated partner manager.
• Artists keep creative control and the commercial rights to their songs and pick their own distributor.
• Spark's fine print bars participants from portraying Suno negatively "during the Term and thereafter," with no end date.

Reactional Music wins $2.8M EU grant to scale in-game music monetization

• Reactional Music won a €2.5 million ($2.8 million) grant from the European Innovation Council.
• The EIC can add up to €6.5 million ($7.4 million) in equity later, taking the potential total near €9 million.
• Reactional's patented engine personalizes in-game music and reacts to gameplay in real time, without altering master recordings.

Mureka rebrands as the first 'AI-native music platform,' adding listening to generation

• Mureka announced on June 22, 2026 that it is rebranding as the first "AI-native music platform," built to handle creation and listening in one place.
• The pitch is closing a loop the AI music industry split apart, where songs were generated on one side and listened to on the other.
• Mureka's next-generation model, V10, is set to launch in Q3 2026, alongside Text-to-Song, Remix, a multi-track Studio, a desktop app, Music-to-Video, and a developer API.

RTM Audio launches UAI, an AI music detector that issues a signed certificate per track

• RTM Audio launched UAI, an AI music detector that flags a track as AI only when two separate checks, one on production and one on the vocal, agree.
• Every UAI verdict produces a cryptographically signed certificate bound to a track's ISRC, formatted for EU AI Act disclosure and DDEX metadata export.
• RTM Audio reports a 0.06% false-positive rate across 8,236 masters in internal validation, with five tracks hard-flagged.

Warner Chappell licenses its production catalog to AI brand-music startup EightSix

• EightSix named Warner Chappell Production Music as the first major music partner for its Brand Studio platform.
• Warner Chappell Production Music brings more than 135,000 tracks across 120-plus catalogs into the platform.
• The catalog sits inside Brand Studio as a premium module brands can activate without a separate licensing step.

How to separate stems in Suno: Auto Split, Split from Mix, Advanced Split

• Suno's stem update adds three modes: Auto Split (classic 12 stems), Split from Mix (one instrument plus a backing track), and Advanced Split (regenerated custom stems).
• Advanced Split rebuilds each stem from scratch with Suno's latest model, so the output is cleaner and free of the bleed you get from frequency filtering.
• Advanced Split lets you target close to 100 instruments, down to a single violin, 808, or didgeridoo.

Push Push used AudioShake to lift a 35-year-old vocal out of a finished mix

• Push Push reunited after more than 30 years to rework "Euphoric Plunder in Bliss," a track from their 1992 debut album.
• The original recording had every instrument and vocal locked inside a single finished mix, with no separate stems to work from.
• AudioShake separated the original vocal and guitar straight from the mixed master, with no session files.

Vermillio launches an 'AI-Guardrails-as-a-Service' SDK for music rightsholders

• Vermillio launched a software development kit it calls "AI-Guardrails-as-a-Service" for the music industry.
• The tech lets artists set rules for how their name, image, likeness, and voice can be used by generative AI models.
• It also gives labels, artists, and streaming services tools to detect and attribute music used in AI tracks.

Suno's product chief details its AI safeguards ahead of the first label-licensed model

• Suno chief product officer Jack Brody published a June 11, 2026 LinkedIn post detailing the company's platform-integrity safeguards as it preps its first label-licensed model.
• Brody said Suno deliberately does not use artist names as training metadata, under a policy it calls Original Creation, By Design.
• Suno says it screens uploads with Audible Magic, Musixmatch, and ACRCloud, and is building audio fingerprinting, watermarking, and impersonation detection.

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