User guide
In this user guide, you’ll find advice on how to get the most out of Stable Audio, information about the AI models and training data behind the product, and a guide to how you can use the tracks you create.
Prompts
Prompts are the text you use to tell the AI how you want your music to sound.
Learn how to tweak your prompts to optimize what you can get out of the product.
Model
We use state-of-the-art audio diffusion AI models to generate music.
Check out some technical details about how our models work.
Training Data
Our first model is trained on music provided by our partner AudioSparx.
Learn more about the training dataset.
Licensing
As a Pro user, you can use music generated in Stable Audio in your commercial projects.
Learn more about what our licence does and doesn’t allow.
Prompts
With Stable Audio, you describe the audio you want with a text prompt, and the system generates it for you. This guide shares some tips on how to prompt.
This is just what works for us - we encourage you to experiment and find what works for you!
Add detail
If you have something specific in mind, include it. Genres, descriptive phrases, instruments and moods work particularly well.
For example, a detailed prompt might look something like this:
Cinematic, Soundtrack, Wild West, High Noon Shoot Out, Percussion, Whistles, Horses, Action Scene, SFX, Shaker, Guitar, Bass, Timpani, Strings, Tense, Climactic, Atmospheric, Moody
Set the mood
When including detail on the mood you want, try using a combination of musical and emotional terms.
Musical might be groovy or rhythmic. Emotional might be sad or beautiful. Using both musical and emotional words in combination can work well.
Choose instruments
We’ve found that adding adjectives to instrument names is helpful.
For example, Reverberated Guitar, Powerful Choir, or Swelling Strings.
Set the BPM
Setting the beats per minute is a great way to ensure your output is the tempo you want, and can help keep it in time. The key here is to try to stick to BPM settings that are appropriate to the genre you’re generating.
For example, if you were generating a Drum and Bass track, you might want to add 170 BPM to your prompt.
Full instrumentals
Use Stable Audio to generate full musical audio encompassing a range of instruments.
Include as much detail as you can!
| Prompt example | Output |
|---|---|
Trance, Ibiza, Beach, Sun, 4 AM, Progressive, Synthesizer, 909, Dramatic Chords, Choir, Euphoric, Nostalgic, Dynamic, Flowing | |
Synthpop, Big Reverbed Synthesizer Pad Chords, Driving Gated Drum Machine, Atmospheric, Moody, Nostalgic, Cool, Club, Striped-back, Pop Instrumental, 100 BPM | |
Post-Rock, Guitars, Drum Kit, Bass, Strings, Euphoric, Up-Lifting, Moody, Flowing, Raw, Epic, Sentimental, 125 BPM | |
Ambient Techno, meditation, Scandinavian Forest, 808 drum machine, 808 kick, claps, shaker, synthesizer, synth bass, Synth Drones, beautiful, peaceful, Ethereal, Natural, 122 BPM, Instrumental | |
Warm soft hug, comfort, low synths, twinkle, wind and leaves, ambient, peace, relaxed, water | |
Lofi hip hop beat, chillhop | |
Drum solo | |
Disco, Driving Drum Machine, Synthesizer, Bass, Piano, Guitars, Instrumental, Clubby, Euphoric, Chicago, New York, 115 BPM | |
Ambient house, new age, meditation, advertisement, 808 drum machine, 808 kick, claps, shaker, synthesizer, synth bass, soaring lead heavily reverbed, modern, sleek, beautiful, inspiring, futuristic | |
Calm meditation music to play in a spa lobby | |
3/4, in 3, 3 beat, guitar, drums, bright, happy, claps |
Individual stems
You can also use Stable Audio to generate individual stems featuring a single instrument or group of instruments.
Just specify what you want in your prompt.
| Prompt example | Output |
|---|---|
Electric guitar top line solo instrumental, no drums, Classic Rock, 105 BPM, Grade: Featured, Instruments: Guitar | |
Samba percussion | |
Drum solo |
Sound effects
Stable Audio can also be used to generate sound effects.
Cars, fireworks, footsteps... describe what you want and see how the model does.
| Prompt example | Output |
|---|---|
Ringtone | |
Explosion | |
Car passing by | |
Fireworks, 44.1k high fidelity |
Model
The AI model behind Stable Audio is a latent diffusion model for audio generation.
You can read more about the model architecture in our research blog post here.
Training Data
Our first audio AI model is exclusively trained on music provided by AudioSparx, a leading music library and stock audio website.
Licensing
As a free user, you can use audio generated via Stable Audio as a sample in your own music production (i.e. music track).
As a paid user, you can use it in your commercial media projects: videos, games, podcasts and more. This includes internal projects and external client projects.
You can’t train AI models on the generated audio. For more detail, see our Terms of Service.