Some of you may have noticed that if you're doing lyrics and you "extend" on multiple occasions, the written lyrics on the track page of Udio get all messed up. You can use "inpaint" to fix this. Simply replace all of the lyrics with the ones you wrote originally and put "***" at the front and back. Then select just the last second of your track. It will replace all of your lyrics and, if the last second is a face to silence, you won't hear it at all.
@@RandomInternetDude5000 I'll explain it, but as of this morning they changed the system to add "lyric strength", "prompt strength", and several other dials. Keep in mind I don't work for them and their tool tip is garbage, but it's my understanding that it will look backward from wherever your cutoff is by that many seconds. So for example. Let's say you have a 120 second song, but the last 20 are bad so you decide to "crop and extend". The left crop is at the start of the song (0 seconds) and you put the right crop at 100 seconds. If you then set "context length" to "30", it will only consider the sound found between "70" and "100" (100-30=70).
You deserve a lot more views on this. It contains exactly the info i wanted, some extra stuff i didnt know i wanted, and its really well produced. Thank you!
@@AtomicGains-ql8hg I've been making classical music with it. Udio seems geared towards more modern music and it does weird things like turn background noise into drum beats lol, but it's come up with some pretty good stuff!
Excellent tutorial 👍 Amazing. I’ve been using Suno and it doesn’t have these capabilities. Question: When you added the guitar solo you selected the surrounding lines and they weren’t changed, but could they have changed? In order to fully protect the song and only add something, could this have worked: Word word word word Word word word * * * [Guitar solo] * * * Word word word word word Word word word What do you think? Just curious!
Great video. Thanks for this. I'm just curious if I overlooked something? Is there no way in Udio to cut & splice pieces of the track? For instance, if I only want to use the first 17 seconds of a 32 second intro and splice it to the verse?
Brand new to Udio, as a lyricist it's pretty damn impressive, however, and I know this maybe a dumb question, but is there anyway to find a vocal that you like and have it on all your songs? Each generate when starting a new song gives me a different vocalist, so keep wasting credits regenerating trying to find the right vocal again. Thank you.
Having some experience generating ai songs from my own lyrics, I have to say that if I was working at creating a new song, and this first stem popped up, I would send it to the trash can first listen and try for something a lot better, which I know is possible. And IMO, necessary. You don't fall in love with the first girl you meet.
Thanks, this was really helpful. Do you know if it's possible to remove all the lyrics from a track to make it just an instrumental? I have a song that I would like without the words but obviously remixing just brings up a different version.
I can't get Inpaint to work reliably. Sometime I want to change one word. Sometimes I want to change a whole line. But no matter how wide or narrow I mark the region and *** it screws up the whole thing, changing the music, messing up the rhythm and even squeezing the first word of the next line on to the end of the previous. It can produce some great stuff if you leave it its own devices but every time I try to tweak something, it's like it has a meltdown!
I'm having the same problem. I just paid a subscription fee to use the inpaint feature but after 10 generations I haven't managed to come up with something I want. It's either gibberish or the music is incoherent with the rest of the song. Very frustrating.
Did you manage to solve the problem? I thought it might work badly only on the trial version. But now I see the last comment in this thread that the person paid for the subscription and he also has this problem. I don't understand how people make cool remixes with song lyrics replacement. P.S. Sorry for my bad english.
@@HUMjaya Not yet. I did try again following an update but still couldn't get the result I wanted. I've now just downloaded the tracks and am hoping to replace all the vocals with my own, which I guess will solve the issue in a roundabout way.
@@HUMjaya Yes. I didn't use it correctly. You have to enclose the entire selection in **, not just a few words around the inpainted area. It works fine now.
That’s a really cool feature to be able to edit a song without having to change the whole thing and I find that the tracks specifically the lyrics so much clearer than say Suno but overall the song quality you know how good the actual song is is not that good. I think Suno is much better at generating songs that sound more like they could be a real radio ready song. Is there a way to upload a song that you generated and then have it edited a certain part?
In Udio can you control the song structure like for example : [verse 1 - no repeat] Word word word... Or [Verse 1 - repeat 2x] Word word word... Also, is there a time limit for the two videos tools you demoed?
Im not sure, I will have to try that though. And yes, there is a limit to the video tools, but there may be options to keep extending the video. Thanks for the comment!
It isn't perfect and requires a lot of trial and error, hopefully they will update it soon. I would urge you to keep trying though as it may take a few tries to get the desired result.
Impaint is frustrating as it changes nothing. I've set it strict to my lyrics but keeps adding verses of gibberish, ignoring the lyrics. It would be great if you could simply cut out the gibberish bits
Nice review of features thanks. Is it me or do the vocals sound like Tom Petty? As much as I love this tool, I'm thinking its going to really open up a can of copyright issues. I'm a bit hesitant to add some of my originals via the audio upload because the terms of services get into some pretty complicated issues on ownership and rights, as well as the US copyright office not allowing AI generated content to be copyrighted. Maybe you could do a deep dive on that in a video?
I would like to create a complete song in another language. Out of 100 attempts to convert a text block into another language, it only works in 1 or 2 cases at most. Does anyone have any tips on how to do this more easily?
New to Udio. If I try to utilize the inpainting feature and mess up, is that version of my song stuck modified improperly? Or does it save inpainting as a new, separate version of the song? Or is there perhaps a revert to prior version feature? Any advice appreciated. Thanks.
my suggestion is to NOT use chatGPT to generate any lyrics!. This because the lyrics are probably the most direct way to control the music in the direction you want. Udio is a sort of expert about "metrics and rhymes"... try to do some "Remix" to discover how is creative about this point. At 11:17 ChatGPT helped you to prepare a sort of regular monolithic lyrics and, infact is exactly what you got at 12:50: a regular monolithic boring song! Instead, use the lyrics from some famous song (Depeche Mode, Pet Shop Boys etc...) to discover how a *real* good lyric carry to a much more interesting song! Important: DO NOT stuff a random lenght text in Udio. If you put too text it will generate a sort of rap, simple because is the only solution to fit the time. Instead, stuff the same amount of text you will find in 30 seconds of a real song...
Thank you for your feedback. Using chatGPT is just an option for people that aren't song writers (like myself) to get familiar with how Udio works. I do agree that if you want to produce a more nuanced song that is unique, then using your own lyrics is the way to go.
I agree and disagree. At this point, everything seems to be up for grabs as far as replicating what is already out there, lol. You both have 2 techniques that should be applied. One creates a more custom specific lyric that gives you some sort of orginality while the other allows you to have style and a standalone delivery. What I like about your idea the most it can be more accurate if pulled from an artist of the same genre. I used an AI lyric generator and it gave me like 5 verses. Without good prompts (like ChatGPT) you really have no idea what youre creating, only that your lyrics are more customed to your desire. Idk, if you truly broke down a song from an artist or treated it like a mad lib. Kind of how ppl do parodies or remixes. Specifically for those reasons that is fine, but its not when you really are trying to be creative. Lastly, for free users, both suffer from good quality gen due to a linear song build that has to be followed which sucks imho. 30 secs of lyric at a time isnt how pros write. Its why ppl use basic structure because Udio doesnt do dynamic without lots of gens.
Agree with you on that. ChatGPT, while helpful really doesn't have a human quality to lyric writing yet. It over rhymes and misses the subtleties of human interpretation. Had it help once with a verse I was stuck on, and it did have some interesting suggestions. After a few tries however, I finally ask it "How good are you at lyric writing, and to my surprise it basically said not as good as a human for the same reasons.
I'm looking for similar. How u remove lead instrument and just have rhythm section. I'm gonna try selecting the area and use prompts like 'remove lead, erase solo instrument's '.
I have no lyrics listed for my song. Not sure why the lyrics for the song is not posted so I want to know is how do I do inpainting without the lyrics. Actually, a lot of my songs do not have lyrics listed. Why? I'm a paid subscriber.
Im addicted, cant stop! There's a button at bottom that says advanced. Its a scale you can adjust.. all the way to the right will give you more consistency of Melody
Yeah it’s definitely best to use your own lyrics. Generated lyrics seem to have a limited vocabulary, and use the same 4 or five words to every song. “Neon, Collide, Shadows, Echoes”. Not sure why.
Inpaint worked in the beginning, now it's just crap. Not only it alters the song structure on 9 out of 10 times and the vocals become gibberish but it alter the song that is not selected for inpaint when it is advertised that it doe not alter.
Pro tips? Instructions sure, but you didn't show anything to help with the constant errors of Udio. Free users can't use inpaint. At least, use it to fix your pop song to get a pro song like you mentioned. Didn't even hear it at the end.
Thanks for your feedback, this video was to showcase what can be done within Udio, I'll make sure to show the viewers the final outcome in future videos, as I understand people will want to see/hear the final product. I do mention that the inpaint feature is for paid users...I still think the Udio is great for all the free content it has to offer.
@@AtomicGains-ql8hg Youre welcome, I wasnt trying to harp, but as a free user I find it frustrating a good portion of the time (now at least since sub started) to get good gens and was hoping for actual pro tips. I wanted to see them in action because lots of times when I enter prompts they still fail. Ex. gender voices, genre prompts, instrumental solos, etc. Inpaint sounds like the only way to assure a change to occur. Remixing a change doesnt seem to always fix it or rarely does. Im also noticing that selection change sometimes fails and ADDS your change on to your song. I dont even want to mention how bad your lyric page looks most of the times. I wish they allowed lyric prompts to be separate from your final lyric post on the song page.
As a music producer I’m not personally bothered if it can’t do it all in the website. I just want more tools to take material OUT of Udio and write over the top with samples and synths and remix etc
@@EdbradThey’ve said that the ability to save out stems is coming, which should allow exactly this. I’ve signed up for the paid plan to support them in anticipation of this feature. Would be a nice way to add loops and other elements to songs I’m working on. Might also help speed along the production process. We’ll see. 😊
Some of you may have noticed that if you're doing lyrics and you "extend" on multiple occasions, the written lyrics on the track page of Udio get all messed up. You can use "inpaint" to fix this. Simply replace all of the lyrics with the ones you wrote originally and put "***" at the front and back. Then select just the last second of your track. It will replace all of your lyrics and, if the last second is a face to silence, you won't hear it at all.
Now, that’s a pro tip! Thanks! 😊
Great tip! Thanks for sharing.
@@AtomicGains-ql8hg My pleasure.
Thank you, could you also explan how the function at the bottom "Context Lengh" should be set?
@@RandomInternetDude5000 I'll explain it, but as of this morning they changed the system to add "lyric strength", "prompt strength", and several other dials.
Keep in mind I don't work for them and their tool tip is garbage, but it's my understanding that it will look backward from wherever your cutoff is by that many seconds.
So for example. Let's say you have a 120 second song, but the last 20 are bad so you decide to "crop and extend". The left crop is at the start of the song (0 seconds) and you put the right crop at 100 seconds. If you then set "context length" to "30", it will only consider the sound found between "70" and "100" (100-30=70).
You deserve a lot more views on this. It contains exactly the info i wanted, some extra stuff i didnt know i wanted, and its really well produced. Thank you!
Thank you so much for the feedback. I'm happy you found it useful, It's a great tool!
@@AtomicGains-ql8hg I've been making classical music with it. Udio seems geared towards more modern music and it does weird things like turn background noise into drum beats lol, but it's come up with some pretty good stuff!
Good clear explanation into the workings of Udio. Thanks
Glad it was helpful!
Perfect video. 😊Thank you very much!
Glad you liked it!
Wow what a wonderful site! I've had this site bookmarked for awhile now but I haven't looked at it yet. Thanks so much for showing us how to use it.
Thanks for watching! I hope you have fun creating some awesome songs.
Your creativity is off the charts! I'm dabbling in AI music on my channel too, it's such a fascinating field!
Wow, thank you for your kind words. It is an incredible app, I hope you're having fun with it.
I use it all the time and have made several full-length songs with lyrics I've written myself.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
That's great, glad you enjoyed the video.
Generated using simple text not " made " , that will never be the same thing
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Super useful video dude, thanks
Thanks, glad you liked it!
Thanks for the tutorial...super!
You are welcome!
Excellent tutorial 👍 Amazing. I’ve been using Suno and it doesn’t have these capabilities.
Question: When you added the guitar solo you selected the surrounding lines and they weren’t changed, but could they have changed?
In order to fully protect the song and only add something, could this have worked:
Word word word word
Word word word
* * *
[Guitar solo]
* * *
Word word word word word
Word word word
What do you think?
Just curious!
Hi, thanks for watching. You could be right, i'll definitely have to try to see if it works, thanks!
Dude thats awsome!
Thanks.
Glad you like it!
Great video. Thanks for this. I'm just curious if I overlooked something? Is there no way in Udio to cut & splice pieces of the track? For instance, if I only want to use the first 17 seconds of a 32 second intro and splice it to the verse?
Thanks! They don't have that editing function at the moment, hopefully soon they will add a tool for us to do that, it would be incredibly useful.
Brand new to Udio, as a lyricist it's pretty damn impressive, however, and I know this maybe a dumb question, but is there anyway to find a vocal that you like and have it on all your songs? Each generate when starting a new song gives me a different vocalist, so keep wasting credits regenerating trying to find the right vocal again. Thank you.
Saw in their update announcements yesterday they are working on just that.
@@nmdpa3 That's very good news. Thank you for the info.
Thats great news!
Having some experience generating ai songs from my own lyrics, I have to say that if I was working at creating a new song, and this first stem popped up, I would send it to the trash can first listen and try for something a lot better, which I know is possible. And IMO, necessary. You don't fall in love with the first girl you meet.
Yes I agree it can take a few tries to get it right, its all trial and error.
Thanks, this was really helpful. Do you know if it's possible to remove all the lyrics from a track to make it just an instrumental? I have a song that I would like without the words but obviously remixing just brings up a different version.
Download it, remove the vocals with a stem separator, then re-upload it to Udio using their "Upload your own audio" feature, and modify as you please.
Yeah that could work, thanks for the comment.
I can't get Inpaint to work reliably. Sometime I want to change one word. Sometimes I want to change a whole line. But no matter how wide or narrow I mark the region and *** it screws up the whole thing, changing the music, messing up the rhythm and even squeezing the first word of the next line on to the end of the previous. It can produce some great stuff if you leave it its own devices but every time I try to tweak something, it's like it has a meltdown!
It definitely is quite awkward to use at the moment...but I'm sure soon they will update the feature to be more reliable.
I'm having the same problem. I just paid a subscription fee to use the inpaint feature but after 10 generations I haven't managed to come up with something I want. It's either gibberish or the music is incoherent with the rest of the song. Very frustrating.
Did you manage to solve the problem?
I thought it might work badly only on the trial version. But now I see the last comment in this thread that the person paid for the subscription and he also has this problem. I don't understand how people make cool remixes with song lyrics replacement. P.S. Sorry for my bad english.
@@HUMjaya Not yet. I did try again following an update but still couldn't get the result I wanted. I've now just downloaded the tracks and am hoping to replace all the vocals with my own, which I guess will solve the issue in a roundabout way.
@@HUMjaya Yes. I didn't use it correctly. You have to enclose the entire selection in **, not just a few words around the inpainted area. It works fine now.
Excelente explcación.
Thanks!
Great tips - thank you :)
Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
That’s a really cool feature to be able to edit a song without having to change the whole thing and I find that the tracks specifically the lyrics so much clearer than say Suno but overall the song quality you know how good the actual song is is not that good. I think Suno is much better at generating songs that sound more like they could be a real radio ready song. Is there a way to upload a song that you generated and then have it edited a certain part?
I’m not sure, I’ll have to try that and maybe make a video about it.
can I add the old song and make changes to it to create new music
In Udio can you control the song structure like for example :
[verse 1 - no repeat]
Word word word...
Or
[Verse 1 - repeat 2x]
Word word word...
Also, is there a time limit for the two videos tools you demoed?
Im not sure, I will have to try that though. And yes, there is a limit to the video tools, but there may be options to keep extending the video. Thanks for the comment!
I can't get impaint to work, it just replaces the marked section with gibberish.
It isn't perfect and requires a lot of trial and error, hopefully they will update it soon. I would urge you to keep trying though as it may take a few tries to get the desired result.
@@AtomicGains-ql8hg Yes. Very frustrating to use at the moment. I can't imagine how many credits I've used on inpainting.
@@slowdive101 I wish I had seen this comment before I decided to subscribe just now.
Impaint is frustrating as it changes nothing. I've set it strict to my lyrics but keeps adding verses of gibberish, ignoring the lyrics. It would be great if you could simply cut out the gibberish bits
Nice review of features thanks. Is it me or do the vocals sound like Tom Petty? As much as I love this tool, I'm thinking its going to really open up a can of copyright issues. I'm a bit hesitant to add some of my originals via the audio upload because the terms of services get into some pretty complicated issues on ownership and rights, as well as the US copyright office not allowing AI generated content to be copyrighted. Maybe you could do a deep dive on that in a video?
Thanks for the comment. Yes it is something I would like to cover in a future video.
I would like to create a complete song in another language. Out of 100 attempts to convert a text block into another language, it only works in 1 or 2 cases at most. Does anyone have any tips on how to do this more easily?
New to Udio. If I try to utilize the inpainting feature and mess up, is that version of my song stuck modified improperly? Or does it save inpainting as a new, separate version of the song? Or is there perhaps a revert to prior version feature? Any advice appreciated. Thanks.
Hi, it should save it as a new song.
my suggestion is to NOT use chatGPT to generate any lyrics!. This because the lyrics are probably the most direct way to control the music in the direction you want. Udio is a sort of expert about "metrics and rhymes"... try to do some "Remix" to discover how is creative about this point. At 11:17 ChatGPT helped you to prepare a sort of regular monolithic lyrics and, infact is exactly what you got at 12:50: a regular monolithic boring song! Instead, use the lyrics from some famous song (Depeche Mode, Pet Shop Boys etc...) to discover how a *real* good lyric carry to a much more interesting song! Important: DO NOT stuff a random lenght text in Udio. If you put too text it will generate a sort of rap, simple because is the only solution to fit the time. Instead, stuff the same amount of text you will find in 30 seconds of a real song...
Thank you for your feedback. Using chatGPT is just an option for people that aren't song writers (like myself) to get familiar with how Udio works. I do agree that if you want to produce a more nuanced song that is unique, then using your own lyrics is the way to go.
I agree and disagree. At this point, everything seems to be up for grabs as far as replicating what is already out there, lol. You both have 2 techniques that should be applied. One creates a more custom specific lyric that gives you some sort of orginality while the other allows you to have style and a standalone delivery. What I like about your idea the most it can be more accurate if pulled from an artist of the same genre. I used an AI lyric generator and it gave me like 5 verses. Without good prompts (like ChatGPT) you really have no idea what youre creating, only that your lyrics are more customed to your desire. Idk, if you truly broke down a song from an artist or treated it like a mad lib. Kind of how ppl do parodies or remixes. Specifically for those reasons that is fine, but its not when you really are trying to be creative. Lastly, for free users, both suffer from good quality gen due to a linear song build that has to be followed which sucks imho. 30 secs of lyric at a time isnt how pros write. Its why ppl use basic structure because Udio doesnt do dynamic without lots of gens.
Agree with you on that. ChatGPT, while helpful really doesn't have a human quality to lyric writing yet. It over rhymes and misses the subtleties of human interpretation. Had it help once with a verse I was stuck on, and it did have some interesting suggestions. After a few tries however, I finally ask it "How good are you at lyric writing, and to my surprise it basically said not as good as a human for the same reasons.
How can I remove the voice somewhere without losing the quality or how could I improve it? I tried to use remix but it changes the whole song
I'm looking for similar. How u remove lead instrument and just have rhythm section.
I'm gonna try selecting the area and use prompts like 'remove lead, erase solo instrument's '.
I have no lyrics listed for my song. Not sure why the lyrics for the song is not posted so I want to know is how do I do inpainting without the lyrics. Actually, a lot of my songs do not have lyrics listed. Why? I'm a paid subscriber.
Hi, so are your songs instrumentals? Or are you saying that they do have lyrics but UDIO isn't displaying them?
i used UDIO for like 5 hr last night without limits... today i have a 10 credit limit 🤔 how can i make this more predictable ?
Im addicted, cant stop! There's a button at bottom that says advanced. Its a scale you can adjust.. all the way to the right will give you more consistency of Melody
Maybe they add more credits daily.
Yeah it’s definitely best to use your own lyrics. Generated lyrics seem to have a limited vocabulary, and use the same 4 or five words to every song. “Neon, Collide, Shadows, Echoes”. Not sure why.
Have you had any success with consistent results from prompting Udio for a mid song key change?
Hi, I haven't tried that. I'll have to give it a go though. Thanks
I assume that inpainting is a destructive process. No undo?
I think you can still keep the original, and you can can always download them for safety.
Inpaint worked in the beginning, now it's just crap. Not only it alters the song structure on 9 out of 10 times and the vocals become gibberish but it alter the song that is not selected for inpaint when it is advertised that it doe not alter.
Doesn't the fact the [Verse 1] of Wind Chaser only has 3 lines throw off the symmetry of the song?
It probably does, I should have changed it for better results.
There was into-music?
Yes....although it may have been too quiet. I'll make sure to bump up the volume next time.
the vocals do sound like Neil Young
I guess so!
Pro tips? Instructions sure, but you didn't show anything to help with the constant errors of Udio. Free users can't use inpaint. At least, use it to fix your pop song to get a pro song like you mentioned. Didn't even hear it at the end.
Thanks for your feedback, this video was to showcase what can be done within Udio, I'll make sure to show the viewers the final outcome in future videos, as I understand people will want to see/hear the final product. I do mention that the inpaint feature is for paid users...I still think the Udio is great for all the free content it has to offer.
@@AtomicGains-ql8hg Youre welcome, I wasnt trying to harp, but as a free user I find it frustrating a good portion of the time (now at least since sub started) to get good gens and was hoping for actual pro tips. I wanted to see them in action because lots of times when I enter prompts they still fail. Ex. gender voices, genre prompts, instrumental solos, etc. Inpaint sounds like the only way to assure a change to occur. Remixing a change doesnt seem to always fix it or rarely does. Im also noticing that selection change sometimes fails and ADDS your change on to your song. I dont even want to mention how bad your lyric page looks most of the times. I wish they allowed lyric prompts to be separate from your final lyric post on the song page.
As a music producer I’m not personally bothered if it can’t do it all in the website. I just want more tools to take material OUT of Udio and write over the top with samples and synths and remix etc
@@EdbradThey’ve said that the ability to save out stems is coming, which should allow exactly this. I’ve signed up for the paid plan to support them in anticipation of this feature. Would be a nice way to add loops and other elements to songs I’m working on. Might also help speed along the production process. We’ll see. 😊
Tom petty slowed down country twang.
Yeah I guess it does sound like Tom Petty.
Uxío is just too expensive, compared to other option, and it really isn’t that great atm
I agree it is expensive, but I still think the free version is great for playing around with. It will definitely get better over time.
inpainting is SOO GOOD! makes udio miles ahead of Suno (not to mention the audio quality is 10x better)
Yeah I think UDIO has the edge on Suno, always good to have some competition to keep them innovating. Thanks for the comment.