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ML & Generative Audio Tools, compared

All 13 ml & generative tools in the directory, side by side — language, license, and platforms. Open any tool for install steps and a code example.

ToolLanguageLicensePlatforms
ACE-StepFast open-source music-generation foundation model producing full tracks from a style prompt and lyrics.PythonApache-2.0Linux Windows macOS
AmphionOpen-source toolkit for reproducible audio, music and speech generation (TTS, SVS, VC, TTA).PythonMITLinux
AudioCraft (MusicGen)Meta's PyTorch library for audio generation, home of the MusicGen text-and-melody music model.PythonMITmacOS Windows Linux
BarkinactiveTransformer text-to-audio model generating speech, music, sound effects and nonverbal sounds.PythonMITmacOS Windows Linux
DDSPDifferentiable Digital Signal Processing: DSP modules (oscillators, filters) usable inside neural nets.PythonApache-2.0macOS Windows Linux
DemucsinactiveState-of-the-art deep-learning music source separation (vocals, drums, bass, other) by Meta.PythonMITmacOS Windows Linux
MagentainactiveGoogle research project using ML (TensorFlow) to generate music, art, and drawings.PythonApache-2.0macOS Windows Linux
note-seqinactiveSerializable NoteSequence representation and utilities from Google Magenta for music ML.PythonApache-2.0macOS Windows Linux
RAVEIRCAM's Realtime Audio Variational autoEncoder for fast, high-quality neural audio synthesis.PythonCC-BY-NC-4.0macOS Windows Linux
RiffusioninactiveGenerates music by diffusing spectrogram images — the original open project, now also a polished web app.PythonMITLinux Windows macOS
SpleeterDeezer's pretrained source-separation library (2/4/5 stems) built on TensorFlow.PythonMITmacOS Windows Linux
Stable Audio OpenOpen text-to-audio diffusion model for generating short instrumentals, loops and sound effects locally.PythonMITmacOS Windows Linux
YuEOpen foundation model that turns lyrics into full songs — vocals and backing — across many genres.PythonApache-2.0Linux Windows macOS

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