Topic

Melody

Write a melody in your DAW, even if you can't play
To write a melody in a DAW without playing an instrument, draw single notes in the piano roll on the notes of your chords, keep the rhythm simple, repeat a short phrase and change its ending. The AI-assisted way lets you describe a hook or hum it into a microphone and turn it into any instrument as editable notes. Both routes, side by side.
1 Nov 2026Workflows
Melody guidance paper steers audio diffusion models to a tune without retraining
A new arXiv paper from Cristobal Andrade, Sebastian J. Schlecht, Ben Maman and Meinard Müller makes an existing audio diffusion model follow a given melody, using a pitch detector during sampling instead of training a new melody-conditioned model.
31 Oct 2026AIvia arXiv

Write a melody in your DAW, even if you can't play