An open music model writes the sheet music before the song.
A university team released YuE2 this week, a free model that turns lyrics into finished songs. It first drafts a melody and chord sheet you can read and edit, then sings it. On a blind listening test it edged past Suno v5, though the weights bar commercial use.
Why it mattersMusic generators normally hand you a finished track you cannot take apart. Here you can fix a single chord instead of rolling the dice again.
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