Waveformer uses MusicGen to create music from text and save it as audio or a waveform video.
Open source
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MusicGen generates music with controls based on text and melody inputs.
About MusicGen
MusicGen is a controllable music generation model supplied with code and models through the AudioCraft PyTorch library for deep learning research on audio generation. It generates music from text descriptions, while melody editions also accept melody input. Local inference requires a GPU, with 16GB of memory recommended for medium sized models.
Pricing is not clearly stated.
Key features
- 10 pre-trained models in small, medium, large and melody sizes
- Stereo tuned variants of small, medium, large, melody and melody large
- Simple API with code examples
- Local Gradio demo
- Jupyter notebook demo at demos/musicgen_demo.ipynb
- Hugging Face Space demo and Colab notebook option
- Use through Transformers library from version 4.31.0
Best for: Deep learning research on audio generation.
MusicGen at a glance
- Category
- AI & Machine Learning › AI Music Generation
- Type
- Open-source project
- Pricing
- Not confirmed. Check the site
- Details verified
- Oct 22, 2026 · Official source
- Open source
- Yes · Source code
- Language
- English
- Last checked
- Oct 5, 2026 · Online when checked
- Listed
- Oct 5, 2026
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