Mastering UDIO: The Ultimate Guide to AI Music Creation

Welcome to the ultimate Udio master class! In this video, I’ll walk you through everything you need to know about creating AI music with Udio—whether you’re a beginner or looking to master its advanced features.

What You'll Learn:

How to get started with Udio and create music from prompts.
Customizing genres and refining your music’s sound.
Extending, remixing, and in-painting songs.
Advanced tools: manual mode, seed generation, and more.
Uploading and enhancing your own audio tracks with Udio.

LINKS:

00:00 Introduction
00:26 Creating Your First Song
01:18 Exploring Genres & Subgenres
02:34 Lyrics Control & Instrumentals
03:01 Advanced Creation Tools
4:12 Commands for Song Structure
4:40 Changing Genres but keeping lyrics
5:19 Advanced Commands in Udio
5:41 Looking at the Udio-130 model
7:34 Extending Songs in Udio
05:12 Genre Mashups in Manual Mode
8:36 - Crop and Extend in Udio
9:37 Manual mode in Udio
10:19 Advanced Features in Udio
13:44 Upload & Remix Your Own Audio
15:41 Upload and Extend Your Own Audio
16:34 Inpainting Audio with Udio
17:40 Publishing & Sharing Your Songs

[ShepherdsOfTruth]

Here's some meta tags I use in an organized list:

SONG BEGINNING:
[Start]
[intro]
[Begin]
[Fade In]

[Intro]
[Interlude]
[Instrumental]

SONG STRUCTURE
[Verse]
[Verse 1]
[Verse 1 Male/Female]
[Bridge]
[Chorus]
[Pre-Chorus]
[Chorus Repeats]
[Verse Repeats]

INSTRUMENTS:
[<instrument> Solo]
[Slow Violin Solo]
[Viola Solo]
[Guitar Solo]
[Bass Solo]
[Drum Solo]
[Synth Solo]
[Piano Solo]
[Vocalization Solo]
[Instrumental]


SOUND DIRECTION:
[Somber Atmosphere]
[Background Piano]
[Acoustic Rhythm]
[Guitar Rhythm]
[Drum Rhythm]
[Drum Beat Rhythm]

SONG CHANGES:
[Break:]
[Interlude]
[dance Interlude]
[Interlude drop]
[Hook]
[Breakdown]
[Breakbeat]
[Drop]
[Refrain]

[Rising Crescendo]
[Descending Crescendo]

VOICE STYLES:
[Choir]
[Male Vocalist]
[Female Vocalist]
[Chorus: Vocalist]
[Verse: Vocalist]
[Emotional]
[Cry]
[Crowd]
[Screaming]
[Breakdown (screaming)]

SOUND FX:
[Hype Man)
[Loud Crowd Cheer]
[Voiceover]
[Spoken]
[Laughter]
[Sample]

SONG ENDING: (Add Instrument Solo after Outro)
[Outro]
[End]
[Exit]
[Fade Out]
[Finish]
[Quit]
[Silence]
[Stop]

[Tenwaystospoildinner]

Oooh, this video was recorded while my song ("Paid For") was on Staff Picks. That's really cool! Great tutorial. Glad to see in-painting in a video format. It took me forever to figure it out, for some reason.

[skidmarkjohnson]

Thanks for explaining the "seed" in a way that's clearer than anyone else has explained it.

[og_bert_co]

That face when I've been prompting manual mode style without turning manual mode on. THANK YOU for that, that makes so much more sense why I wasn't getting the same results that others were.

[GoapprStudios]

Great video, I have been working with UDIO for a long time and this video has taught me so much. I'm going back to work on a couple project now that I have way more control Thank You Keep Creating Your changing the world !

[TeddyLeppard]

Udio now allows you to control chord and key changes also. This tool will be genuinely helpful when it becomes a plugin for Logic Pro and other DAWs.

[DiceDecides]

14:15 nice playing! sounds really good. My favorite track here was 7:54 :) Udio and Suno are incredibly amazing tools of the modern day. I got to extend a track my friend made and we never felt like it was finished, so much fun.

[Walterzuiderwijk]

I like udio it's so great to hear the sound the singers the instruments act

[MistaRopa-]

Udio has superior voice quality and more realistic all around audio quality. However, after the last update, it seems to produce a lot more gibberish and odd vocal artifacts (on standard settings). It became almost unusable as each generation would be ruined by undesired and weird vocals (even on instrumental setting). It's a shame because I loved Udio despite its other quirks. The latest update seems to have broke it. Had to cancel unfortunately in favor of the reliability and consistency of Suno. Thanks for the great vid!

[AllanGildea]

Thank you Tim, your content is second to none.

[ShepherdsOfTruth]

Please teach us - Clip start and lyric timing in conjunction with remixing and inpainting, or just in general with real examples. It's confounding but seems important!

[JamesBray-qmgr-qw]

Wish people would not difference between typing a few words and letting the Song AP completely develop a song from a song writer using one's own lyrics and using the Song AP to work the melody and refine your lyrics. When you say you are using AI song AP everyone thinks you just type a few words to get a song. Many do this, but song writers do not. We use our own lyrics.

[viche]

Thank-you - that was really useful! I consider myself reasonably proficiant at Udio but inpainting was driving me mad!

[legacylee]

I learned the hard way you can't really write too much in the 30 sec version as it just gets cut off, but I did get some dope results from the 2 min version. Did you know you could tell it to things like stand up comedy by using [dialogue] and prompting for a stand up comedy routine. Works better if you feed it the jokes. I was also able to have it perform songs in multiple languages in one song. It's fun to try to see what other things aside from just music you can actually get udio to reproduce.

[CaroleBaskin]

This was helpful as to inpainting, which I've not tried. You didn't say, or I missed it; as to whether using the same seed to continue a much longer song will keep it sounding similar throughout.

[reeanimationgaming]

1.0 is definitely better than 1.5
I’m glad they let the old version be in there 👍

[ceige]

Doing all the heavy lifting for us all Thanks Tim!

[KeroCrane]

I have an issue where I like 2 extensions of a song, but everytime I try adding another verse, it'll sing to me gibberish, or if I try to replace it with an instrumental, it'll give me the pre-chorus lyrics I inserted previously. It's annoying. I really like the first 1 minute and 30 seconds of the song I created. I want it to be a 5 minute song.

[animviw]

This is well detailed man, good for you man

[skidmarkjohnson]

I use inpainting a lot on the instrumental parts of songs. I haven't heard anyone speak on the creative things you can do with inpainting to change wonky notes in a solo section, alter a drum fill or other things like that. I've figured a lot of things myself, but since this is all so new, every new piece of information is potentially helpful.