YuE2

Overview

YuE2 fits into music creation workflows where songwriting meets composition editing. It lets you start from lyrics and a style description to generate a full song with vocals and accompaniment directly in your browser. The distinctive feature is its approach: it creates an editable musical score in ABC notation before rendering the final audio. This way, the song’s structure and harmony become tangible, letting users inspect and modify chords or melodies and produce new versions. Instead of delivering an audio file alone, this middle score step invites deeper involvement in the song’s building blocks.

Beyond making songs from text, you can upload reference audio or record a melody hummed in your browser to guide new renditions. Once audio is generated, the model supports converting recordings into sheet music or MIDI files for further editing in digital audio workstations. YuE2’s openness is notable with downloadable weights, evaluation data, and clear separation of symbolic planning and performance. This makes it not only a tool for creators but also a resource for developers and researchers exploring AI music generation. The browser studio offers a user-friendly frontend, while more detailed score editing happens via separate workflows.

YuE2’s workflow suits songwriters who want to hear their lyrics turned into songs without needing a full band, producers who wish to revise compositions at the note and chord level, and researchers studying open music models. You begin by pasting lyrics and describing the sound, choose a music style or attach a reference clip, then generate an audio track within about a minute. The site provides five free credits to get started, with paid credit packs for more extensive use. Files are downloadable without limits, and multiple export formats like MP3, WAV, and FLAC are supported. Having looked through the site, what stood out to us was the focus on editable scores as a bridge from lyrics to polished audio.