Music Tools

Soundtrap is a browser-based studio for recording and producing music and podcasts, with built-in loops, instruments and vocal tools.

BandLab is a free cloud DAW paired with a social platform where users record, mix and publish tracks from a browser or phone.

Soundation is an online music studio with drum machines, synths, effects and a large loop library, plus real-time collaboration on shared projects.

Audiotool is a free browser DAW built around modular routing, letting users wire synths, drum machines, effects and VST3 plugins into custom chains.

Amped Studio is a browser DAW that mixes audio and MIDI tracks, ships virtual instruments and effects, and can host desktop VST3 plugins through a companion app.

Suno turns a text prompt or lyrics into a complete song with vocals and instrumentation in about a minute.

Udio generates songs with vocals from text prompts and lets subscribers extend, remix and edit tracks in a timeline view.

AIVA is an AI composition assistant with 250+ preset styles, custom style models and the option to steer results with an uploaded audio or MIDI influence.

SOUNDRAW generates royalty-free instrumental tracks from mood, genre, length and energy settings, with bar-level editing in the browser.

Lyria is Google DeepMind's family of music-generation models.

Synthesizer V Studio 2 Pro is Dreamtonics' vocal synthesis software.

ElevenLabs pairs its AI voice tools (text-to-speech, voice cloning, dubbing) with Eleven Music, which generates full songs with vocals from a prompt and which ElevenLabs says was developed with label and publisher partners.

Loudly is a Berlin-based AI music platform that generates royalty-free tracks from text prompts or genre settings and bundles a remixer, stem splitter, mastering and distribution to streaming services.

Boomy builds an original song from a chosen style and lets you edit it without any music background.

Magenta Studio is a free Max for Live MIDI plugin from Google's Magenta project with five machine-learning tools that continue, generate, interpolate, groove and drumify clips inside Ableton Live.

LALAL.AI is a browser-based audio separation service that splits songs into vocals, drums, bass, guitar, piano and other stems, and adds voice-cleaning and voice-changing tools.

Moises is a practice and production app that separates songs into stems, detects chords, key and tempo, and changes pitch or speed.

Audacity is a free, open-source audio recorder and editor for Windows, macOS and Linux maintained by Muse Group and contributors.

Fadr is a web-based AI music toolkit from Pebble that splits songs into stems, detects key, tempo, chords and MIDI, and adds remix and DJ tools.

iZotope RX 12 is an audio repair suite sold in Elements, Standard and Advanced editions; Standard and Advanced add a standalone spectral editor alongside the DAW and video-editor plugins.

LANDR Mastering is a browser-based AI mastering service that analyses an uploaded mix and returns a finished master as MP3, WAV or HD WAV.

eMastered is a web mastering engine that processes an uploaded mix in seconds and lets subscribers adjust strength, EQ, width and loudness.

Ozone 12 is iZotope's mastering plugin suite for Windows and macOS, sold as Elements, Standard and Advanced editions with up to 20 modules.

Maztr is an Australian-made browser mastering service, launched in 2016, that lets home recording artists upload a song or podcast, tweak EQ, compression, width and loudness, then download the result.

Kontakt 8 is Native Instruments' sampler and instrument host, playing a 900+ instrument factory library plus thousands of third-party Kontakt libraries.

Omnisphere 3 is Spectrasonics' flagship software synthesizer, combining sample-based, wavetable and granular synthesis with a factory collection of 18 libraries.

Serum 2 is Xfer Records' hybrid synthesizer built around five oscillator types: wavetable, multisample, sample, granular and spectral.

Valhalla Supermassive is a free Valhalla DSP plugin that blends delay and reverb.

Neural DSP develops guitar, bass and vocal processing plugins, including the artist-branded Archetype series, Darkglass Ultimate and the Mantra vocal suite.

Soundtoys builds creative effect plugins that draw on the character of classic studio gear, sold one by one or in the 23-plugin Soundtoys 5 bundle.

Waves Audio offers more than 240 mixing, mastering and live-sound plugins as individual licences or via the Creative Access subscription.

Splice INSTRUMENT is a sample-based instrument plugin with a free tier of several hundred presets and monthly free drops.

Splice is a subscription sample marketplace where producers spend monthly credits on royalty-free one-shots, loops and presets from a catalogue of over three million sounds.

Loopcloud is Loopmasters' subscription sample service, pairing a desktop app and plugins that let producers search, audition and edit millions of sounds in time and key with their project.

Arcade is Output's subscription sampler plugin that lays curated loops and multi-sampled instruments across the keyboard, with new kits added on an ongoing basis.

Tracklib licenses original recordings and stems from labels and publishers so producers can sample real songs and register clearances through the platform.

Cymatics sells royalty-free sample packs, MIDI collections and audio plugins aimed at hip-hop, trap and electronic producers, alongside a large catalogue of free downloads.

MuseScore Studio is an open-source desktop notation program for writing, engraving and playing back scores from solo piano to full orchestra.

Chordify analyses a song's audio to work out its chords and shows them in sync with playback, with diagrams for guitar, piano, ukulele and mandolin.

Ultimate Guitar is a community-built catalogue of guitar, bass and ukulele tabs, chords and lyrics, free to read on the web and in its apps.

Hooktheory makes Hookpad, a browser-based sketchpad for writing chord progressions and melodies with theory hints built in, plus the Theorytab database of analysed songs, two interactive theory books and the Chord Crush ear-training app.

Noteflight is a browser-based notation editor for composing, sharing and playing back scores, free for up to 10 scores.

Flat is a cloud notation editor for browser, desktop and mobile that lets several people edit one score at the same time.

DistroKid is a subscription music distributor that delivers unlimited releases to streaming services for a flat yearly fee, with add-on tools for royalty splits, lyrics, streaming stats and fan promotion.

TuneCore, part of Believe, distributes independent releases to more than 150 stores on annual plans and adds publishing administration, revenue splits and YouTube monetisation for self-releasing artists.

CD Baby charges a one-time fee per single or album and then keeps 9% of digital revenue instead of yearly renewals, and also handles cover-song licensing and physical CD and vinyl distribution.

Amuse is a distributor with web, iOS and Android apps that sends unlimited releases to streaming services on low-cost annual plans, alongside an artist and label services arm for larger acts.

UnitedMasters combines paid unlimited distribution to 150+ services with a marketplace of brand and sync opportunities, letting artists keep their royalties while pitching for licensing deals.