You don't need to be a musician to make your own song. Use these free online music generators to compose your own tune, whether by yourself or with the help of AI.
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Computer music generators come in various shapes. Some will let you make mind-blowing creations with artificial intelligence. With others, you'll be the musician, working like a maestro who changes each element to play a tune that sounds good to you. Each one needs different skills, so pick the one that's most apt for you.
1. MusicGen
Open-source and easily accessible with a browser, MusicGen allows anyone to generate convincing music using AI. Synthesizing raw audio has required some huge leaps in technology, and for its efforts, MusicGen does a decent job.
Following the popularity of AI image generators—that work by inputting a simple text description—this music generator can churn out a musical tune based on what you write. To use it, type a description into the text box, something like "80s rock band" or "Lo-Fi beats with calm synthesizer pads". When you're ready, press the Generate button and wait for your audio to load.
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To quickly get a sense of what it's capable of, you can listen to some of the examples we created for our guide on making AI music with MusicGen.
One benefit of making MusicGen open-source is that people can use the code to build other applications. You can, for example, use TextToSample to generate AI audio in your DAW. Use it as a starting point, or try to create a full song using snippets of AI audio.
2. Melobytes
Most online music generators only deal with instrumental sounds. But not Melobytes. This ambitious AI app is ready to sing along as well, as it analyzes lyrics and turns them into unique, procedurally-generated melodies.
In the basic version of Melobytes, you can set the language of the lyrics for it to analyze alongside the tonality, tempo, time signature, and type of singer you want, including male, female, duo, robot, and rapper. Add your lyrics to the dialog box and generate an original song with your words!
You can try using apps to find the lyrics to a popular song and generate a robotic cover. You can even use AI to create the lyrics for you! It's one of many things you can do with ChatGPT.
It's really up to you. If you don't like the first version the app makes, feel free to click that Melobytes button again and again till you like what you generate. Melobytes songs can be downloaded as a MIDI file and saved to reuse as you see fit.
And if you like this AI-generated music, check out Melobytes Pro. The advanced version of the app is also free but lets you customize almost every aspect of the song, including the time length, instruments, musical styles, types of vocals, and audio settings like reverb, echo, and distortion.
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If you're still feeling experimental, Melobytes will also generate a video to go with your song. So, there you have it. Go from just lyrics to a full-fledged music video using AI with Melobytes.
3. BeepBox
BeepBox is a fantastic little tool to create your own free musical track which could serve as the background score for a video game or a YouTube video. You don't need to know music; just play with the controls and be creative.
The app offers you four channels of instruments, which include a wide variety of guitars, trumpets, drums, vocals, and other strings, brass, and percussion. Set an instrument in a channel, and then click on different points of the virtual scale to produce a sound from it. A click keeps the sound alive and another click switches it off. Press play to hear the whole sound.
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You can change the tempo, reverb, and rhythm at any time. BeepBox also lets you tweak how and when each channel plays through a simple interface based on numbers. Play around with it to get a sound that you like, and then download it as a WAV, MP3, MID, JSON, and HTML file for free and use it as royalty-free music for YouTube videos or video games.
And all of this is just the basic interface of BeepBox. Once you've fiddled with this and mastered it, jump into the deeper settings where you can see all channels in one view, add piano scales, save and use presets, and so much more. BeepBox can be really powerful if you want it to be or basic for any novice who wants to create a quick track.
4. Typatone
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What does your name sound like if it's turned into music? Typatone has a melodious answer as it turns your keyboard into a musical instrument and your words into a song online for free. The idea is to map text to tunes so that you can make songs by typing.
Typatone used a study on how often some letters are used from the English alphabet and mapped it to the most melodious notes on a standard piano. Type any letters or words into the app, and it'll make a sound. You can even copy-paste big chunks of text. The cool part is how Typatone uses its AI to not just map the sounds but turn the sequence of letters into a harmonious tune.
You could turn anyone's name into a custom little tune as a notification alert or ringtone. Take someone's favorite book and turn it into a song for them. Or you could use Typatone to compose music as you walk around. The mobile-friendly website makes it easy to have a musical instrument always with you, so when a tune pops into your head, just type to make it happen.
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5. Beepster
Beepster is a funky little music generator with a few neat twists. You don't need any musical expertise to play it, just fiddle with the settings and see what you like.
First, choose from the scales: major pentatonic, minor pentatonic, blues major, blues minor, and suspended. You'll see four rows, each of which is a track or voice. Clicking the track image will change what plays.
You can adjust the speed, volume, and pitch for each track. And you can turn a track on or off. If you want a random selection of all settings in a single track, click its circular arrow. Beepster also randomly changes the notes each track plays, giving you a little variety in your tunes.
There is no way to download the track, but you can share it as a link with others. Alternatively, you can try using Audacity to record audio on Mac or Windows, it's a handy workaround that means you can still capture the music you create.
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Overall, this is a handy app for making free music tracks for yourself or enhancing online projects. If adding animated GIFs to Google Slides improves presentations, playing a fun tune can do the same.
6. ToneMatrix
ToneMatrix is the simplest of these musical generators, but that just makes it more appealing. You aren't fiddling around with a lot of settings here; all you have to do is click on blocks in the matrix to create your own music.
Each block generates a tone. ToneMatrix will play the active blocks sequentially, starting from left to right. There are 16 columns, and if you select multiple blocks in a column, it'll play with more impact.
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It's very cool to play around with, and you can create simple, soothing Lo-Fi music to study to. Unfortunately, you can't download the tracks on ToneMatrix, but you can share your creations online. Otherwise, refer to the workaround we mentioned in the section above.
Consider Paid Apps for Royalty-Free AI-Generated Tracks
All of the above music generators are free to use and download. However, there is always a new crop of AI music generators to check out. Generators like Boomy, Evoke Music, or AIVA require a paid subscription if you want to download and use the tracks in your creations for monetization, but they're much easier than the music generators above and offer a great variety of sounds.
If you're willing to pay some money, professional AI is what you should go for. Otherwise, there are plenty of free music generators you can use for your creative project.
