AI · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to On Making Music with the Machine
Have been making music using ML/AI tools for about as long as I've been on HN. Had a recent comment section on HN here [1] and after that thought it might be worthwhile to write out about the journey in greater detail... from crude LSTM models, to hacking around with Jukebox, and now Suno. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45388822
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier.
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Suno.aifree tier▲503I turned my resume into a catchy pop song. Thought you'd all appreciate it. Worked directly on the Song Style prompt, which you can duplicate for your own fun catchy resume song. Just replace the lyrics!
2023 · suno.com · its alternatives →
- 2IU
Hi Hacker News, This is definitely out of my comfort zone. I just wanted to show you guys because I'm super proud of it. It's a 100% faithful recreation based off of the schematics, patents, and ROMs that were found online. So please watch the video and tell me what you think https://youtu.be/auOlZXI1VxA The reason why I think this is relevant is because I've been a programmer for 25 years and AI scares the shit out of me. I'm not a programmer anymore. I'm something else now. I don't know what it is but it's multi-disciplinary, and it doesn't involve writing code myself--for…
Jan 2026 · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! I just shipped a project I’ve been working on called Maroofy: https://maroofy.com You can search for any song, and it’ll use the song’s audio to find other similar-sounding music. Demo: https://twitter.com/subby_tech/status/1621293770779287554 How does it work? I’ve indexed ~120M+ songs from the iTunes catalog with a custom AI audio model that I built for understanding music. My model analyzes raw music audio as input and produces embedding vectors as output. I then store the embedding vectors for all songs into a vector database, and use semantic…
2023 · maroofy.com · its alternatives →
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It's been a long slow hog and I almost gave up a few times (more than a few) but when covid hit this year it gave me some time to really focus on my product. There were stupid user journey things that I knew needed fixed. There were some features I knew needed added. And I knew the pricing was wrong. I spent some hardcore time working on these things back in March / April and since then my MRR has continued to grow. My product is SongBox (https://songbox.rocks) - it's an alternative to things like bandcamp and soundcloud for creators who need to share audio files privately.…
2020 · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, My cofounder and I trained an AI music generation model and after a month of testing we're launching 1.0 today. Ours is interesting because it's a latent diffusion model instead of a language model, which makes it more controllable: https://sonauto.ai/ Others do music generation by training a Vector Quantized Variational Autoencoder like Descript Audio Codec (https://github.com/descriptinc/descript-audio-codec) to turn music into tokens, then training an LLM on those tokens. Instead, we ripped the tokenization part off and replaced it with a normal…
2024 · sonauto.ai · its alternatives →
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A look into songwriting with an AI
2017 · its alternatives →
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After two years of development, I'm super excited to release Beat Maker! This is my take on what I hope is the best free, web-based drum machine. My goal was to build something that was not only fun and easy to use for beginners but also powerful enough for serious producers. I did extensive research on existing drum machines, analyzed their UX, and tried to build something that adds something new. It's a nearly 100% client-side app, written in ClojureScript, and is a PWA so you can install it to your home screen for an app-like experience. Besides the standard grid editor, Beat Maker has…
2025 · dopeloop.ai · its alternatives →
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2017 · blog.buildo.io · its alternatives →
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Pianolyze▲149Hey HN, I'm a pianist who's always been obsessed with understanding how great players think through harmony. What voicings are they using? How do they voice lead through changes? What's actually happening under their hands? Back in 2022, I built Harmonic Analyzer (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNgSgvUmiOs) – a Mac app that used ML to transcribe polyphonic piano recordings. It got some traction, but I never quite finished it. Requiring users to download a Mac app felt like unnecessary friction, and I didn’t want to limit distribution to Mac users. I just shipped Pianolyze…
Nov 2025 · pianolyze.com · its alternatives →
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CassetteAI▲171The AI-powered music producer, create your dream music
2023 · cassetteai.com · its alternatives →
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The HN community may find the context of the prompts, organized by each turn in each session, the most useful. See the website/docs/prompts.md and session-X.md files. I also started exploring some workflows for the LLM to execute, organized in the website/docs/tasks/ folder. I found it pretty handy to have the LLM document our work as we went and simply embedded the static site into the executable, along with all the music and logic. The whole project took me about a day for the backend. The C++ controller itself took only a few turns. I enjoyed focusing on my son's…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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mvntSTUDIO▲113I think Suno opened up music. Kling and Runway opened up video - but there's one creative domain nobody has touched yet: dance. So my team built an web app — give it a YouTube link to your music and it generates a 3D dance animation in under 2 minutes. The core is a diffusion-based music-to-motion model (mvnt-m4) trained on proprietary mocap/label data from professional choreographers. I think dance is the missing piece of AI-generated content — just like how performance made K-pop a global phenomenon, and we believe AI dance will play the same role in the AI UGC era. This is v0.1 — a…
Feb 2026 · mvnt.studio · its alternatives →
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BachBot: An AI that makes music like Bach
2016 · its alternatives →
- 16BF
2023 · beatbot.fm · its alternatives →
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Make music and art using Machine Learning
2017 · magenta.tensorflow.org · its alternatives →
- 18IJ
Hey all. For the last few years, I have been developing a software synthesizer as a side project. It's taken longer than I both hoped and feared, but earlier this week I finally shipped 1.0. Details about the synth itself are up on my website, https://lhiaudio.com/. For those who are unfamiliar, in music production, there are host applications (such as Logic Pro, Ableton Live, or REAPER) in which most of the work (such as recording or sequencing MIDI data) is done. These applications generally have some built-in tools for the actual generation and processing of audio data, but…
2018 · its alternatives →
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Your AI agent can now generate music!
Dec 2025 · api.cavn.ai · its alternatives →
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I've been tinkering with a browser-based rhythm game creation tool. The pitch is simple: AI makes the music, Essentia.js figures out the beats, and you write the game logic in JS. Demo: https://rhythm-seodang-web.vercel.app/ The problem I wanted to solve: most rhythm game workflows are heavy. Proprietary editors, manual charting, fixed gameplay patterns, desktop-only. I wanted something where you could just... open a browser tab and start messing around. How it works: - Music comes from AI services (Suno/Udio). No user uploads, no copyright headaches. - Essentia.js (WASM…
Dec 2025 · rhythm-seodang-web.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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Want to be a superstar? Now's your chance!
Nov 2025 · music.nextaibar.com · its alternatives →
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Ai song maker effortlessly create songs with AI
2025 · aisongmaker.io · its alternatives →
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