AI Music Generator: Create Royalty-Free Background Tracks, Beats, and Soundtracks

Imagine you’re growing your YouTube or Twitch channel and aiming to earn money through monetization. Good content shouldn’t be dry, so you spend a lot of time editing exciting and interesting videos for YouTube, as well as hosting engaging streams on Twitch where you play games, watch videos, or listen to music. Unfortunately, that very music can become an obstacle on your path to earning money.

The problem of copyright (and receiving a Copyright Strike for using someone else’s music) kills monetization on YouTube and Twitch. Searching for free, royalty-free stock music is a long and sometimes fruitless process. It may be hard to find the right audio track for your video content, especially when you know exactly what you need. The perfect melody seems to be playing in your head, but you can’t find anything close to it. Running into this problem during editing can not only drain your time and energy but even kill your desire to continue and finish the video.

Top AI music generators can create a unique soundtrack for a specific mood in just minutes. One prompt frees you from searching the entire internet for copyright-free tracks and protects you from strikes on YouTube or Twitch. Please note: this article focuses on creating beats online, high-quality instrumentals, background music for videos, podcasts, and games — not on generating pop hits for radio.

Top Neural Networks for Background Music and Video Production

Soundraw

Who is it for and what does it suit? Best suited for video editors, YouTube creators, SMM specialists, production teams, and commercial creators. The service is convenient when the music must precisely match the video structure: intro, development, climax, and finale.

Main features. The service is especially convenient for video editors. You can set the track length and adjust intensity and energy by section — essentially shaping an "energy curve" to match your video structure: intro, development, climax, drop.

Pricing and limitations. Soundraw can be used for free for trial and music generation, but full downloading and commercial use require a paid plan (from $16.99/month). The commercial license allows you to use downloaded tracks in YouTube videos, ads, client projects, streams, and other content, but only under the conditions of your chosen plan.

Mubert

Who is it for and what does it suit? Mubert is suitable for streamers, gaming bloggers, live-content creators, and channels that need continuous playback music. It’s a great choice for Twitch streams and long online formats.

Main features. Mubert’s key feature is an endless generative music stream. The service can create music in real time, tailoring the sound to a desired mood, genre, or content type. This is especially useful for streamers because the music never ends, requires no manual track selection, and can serve as a constant background.

Pricing and limitations. Commercial use, monetized videos, ads, or public broadcasts require a paid plan (from $14/month) or a proper license. Some free options may be available, but they do not grant full commercial use without restrictions.

Stable Audio 2.0

Who is it for and what does it suit? Stable Audio 2.0 is another top neural network music tool. It suits sound designers, video editors, motion designers, game developers, short‑video creators, and anyone who needs samples, sound effects, or short music clips. The service is especially useful when you need a specific sound based on a text description.

Main features. Stable Audio 2.0’s main strength is generating audio from text prompts. You can describe the sound, music fragment, effect, or atmosphere you need, and the tool creates an audio file based on that request. Besides text‑to‑audio, the service supports working with uploaded audio fragments, sound transformation, and creating samples, sound effects, and short music pieces.

Pricing and limitations. Stable Audio 2.0 can be used for free for personal and non‑commercial projects, but commercial use requires a paid plan (from $11.99/month) or a license. Also consider rights to uploaded audio: if you use your own sample for transformation, you must own the copyright to the original material.

Tools for Composers and Game Development: Working with MIDI

AIVA

A tool for those who need more than just "generate sound." AIVA lets you export your created project in MIDI format (essentially as notes for each instrument) and freely edit it in your own DAW (FL Studio, Cubase, Ableton). This is useful for composers and musicians — for example, you create an instrumental via the neural network, export it into your music workstation, change the arrangement, instruments, process the sound, do your own mix & mastering, and get the sound you need.

Pricing and limitations. The minimum paid subscription for AIVA is €11/month + tax. There is a free tier, but only for non‑commercial use: rights to created compositions belong to AIVA, monetization is prohibited, and you must credit AIVA.

Beatmaking and Lo‑Fi: Generating Atmosphere

Lo‑Fi is a term describing the aesthetic of "imperfect" sound. In Lo‑Fi music, background noises, vinyl crackle, and muffled sounds are often used. This music helps you relax and concentrate, and is often used as a background for work and study.

Beatoven AI – a lo‑fi beat generator. It specializes in creating music from descriptions in genres that prioritize a unique mood and atmospheric sound. These genres primarily include Lo‑Fi, jazz, ambient, electronic, and house. You can describe your desired track in a text prompt, set the tempo, mood, and emotions, and choose a genre. The generated online beats and instrumentals can be edited — adjust instruments, add extra sound layers, change mood and tempo in selected song sections.

Pricing and limitations. The minimum paid subscription for Beatoven.ai starts at $10/month, or $100/year if paid annually. Music can be used in monetized content, but not as a standalone music product for resale, registration, or uploading to music streaming platforms.

Styles and Prompts: How to Describe Music in Words

In the past, creating a musical piece required knowledge of musical notation and the ability to play at least one instrument. The 21st century is changing our perception of reality. Now a single good prompt is enough — and the neural network will do the job better than any composer.

What are the specifics of writing prompts for music generation?

Even if you are far from the world of music, writing a good prompt won’t be a problem. Neural networks don’t even need the genre of the desired piece mentioned. You just need to abstractly describe the mood, tempo, instruments used, and the emotions that listening might evoke.

The most effective formulas for a successful music generation prompt include:

- Genre + Mood + Tempo: “Cinematic orchestral, epic, heroic, fast tempo” or “Melancholic and a little sad, giving hope at the end, slow and deep.”

- Situation + Instruments: “Music for meditation, soft piano and rain sounds, slow” or “Motivational and uplifting music for vlog intro, rhythmic guitar riffs, bright drums, tempo around 150 bpm.”

- Mixing styles: “Cyberpunk synthwave mixed with classical violin” or “Hip‑hop drums and complex classical piano.”

If you want to reference existing audio as an example for your composition, it’s better to upload the file (this feature is available in Stable Audio 2.0, AIVA, Beatoven.ai). We recommend not writing song titles (even the most famous ones), as the neural network may not know them. The most reliable method is to describe the mood and atmosphere of the desired track as closely as possible.

Making Money with Audio Stocks and YouTube Channels

AI music generators can help you earn money! Here are a few methods:

- Create niche YouTube channels and monetize through views. Your imagination is not limited to one genre or purpose — the channel can be anything (Music for Sleep, Lo‑Fi Radio, Study with me, Let’s go on a walk, etc.). You can generate an endless number of tracks via Mubert or AIVA, edit a simple fitting video as background for each track, upload them, and wait for your millions of views.

- Sell samples and jingles on audio stock sites (AudioJungle, Pond5). The first step is to check whether the neural network’s license allows selling generated tracks. Then it’s simple. We recommend studying the market for short music tracks and samples. There are trends and seasons there too (for example, in December, the sound of New Year’s bells and Christmas melodies are much more popular).

Keep in mind: both YouTube content and audio stock services require detailed descriptions for each video or track in English, with many keywords (tags) for optimal search ranking; otherwise, your content may go unnoticed on the platform.

For quickly creating such descriptions, ReText’s functions — Paraphrasing and Extension — are perfect. You can easily and quickly find synonyms for the words you need and expand your text by selecting many keywords. Those keywords will help boost your materials in search results and attract more viewers and listeners.

The Future of the Industry: Will AI Replace Composers?

Online AI music generators can indeed significantly undercut the market for cheap stock sounds. Composers and musicians need not worry — AI will not replace human creativity and true talent. The authorial vision behind creating soundtracks for AAA games and films will not lose its relevance.

As in other fields, AI becomes a “smart assistant” and co‑pilot that can handle the routine of chord progressions and initial melody generation, leaving further creative decisions to humans.

FAQs About Sound Generation

Who owns the rights to AI‑generated music?

The rights to music created by a neural network depend on the specific AI service, the subscription plan, and the license terms. In most music‑generating neural networks, the user does not receive full copyright but rather a license to use the track: for YouTube videos, TikTok and Reels, podcasts, games, streams, or other commercial content. Such music is often called royalty‑free, but that does not always mean the user becomes the full rights holder of the composition.

Can I upload a reference for the neural network to create something similar?

Yes, some AI music generators allow you to upload an audio reference so that the network creates a track in a similar style, mood, or structure. This feature may be called audio‑to‑audio, upload audio reference, upload influence, reference audio, or style transfer. It is especially useful when you need background music for a video, commercial, podcast, game, or Reels with a specific atmosphere.

For example, some services let you upload an MP3 or WAV file as a musical example and then generate a composition based on that reference. The neural network can take into account the mood, tempo, dynamics, genre, instruments, or overall energy of the source audio. This helps you quickly get music similar in vibe but freshly generated.

Is there a completely free AI music generator with no restrictions?

Unfortunately, a completely free neural network for music generation with no restrictions does not exist. Most music‑creation tools offer a free tier, trial mode, or limited access, but such plans usually have limits: a restricted number of generations or downloads, watermarks, a ban on commercial use, a requirement to credit the service, or no full license for monetization.