AIVA

AIVA comes from Aiva Technologies in Luxembourg and has been working on AI composition since 2016, specialising in instrumental and orchestral scoring rather than vocal pop songs. What it gives you is a score-level draft whose notes you can change, whose instruments you can swap and which exports as multi-track MIDI, and on Pro the copyright is transferred to you outright.

Core capabilities

• Drafting from 250 styles: three entry points, style, chord progression or reference audio, turn out several versions in seconds, and chords can even be generated from a one-sentence description
• Score-level editor: change notes, swap instruments, cut sections and adjust the BPM, shaping a melody in the browser until it is usable
• Multi-track MIDI and stem export: MP3, multi-track MIDI, 16bit/48kHz WAV and stems are all covered, ready to go into a DAW with real instrument libraries
• Style Designer: build your own style model and fix your usual orchestration taste into a reusable style
• Copyright transfer: on Pro the copyright of the work belongs to you and stays yours after you cancel, so client projects need no further licence checks
• Desktop clients on three platforms: macOS, Windows and Linux are all covered, with folder management and AIVA Radio

Where it fits People scoring film, games and advertising who need a cinematic bed but also want stems to rearrange; creators who monetise only on YouTube, Twitch, TikTok and Instagram; studios and music teachers who need a clean copyright chain. If you want vocal songs or batch API integration, this is not the tool.

What sets it apart It is a different species from Suno and Udio: those hand over finished songs, while AIVA hands over drafts you can keep sculpting in a DAW plus a copyright transaction. Against royalty-free libraries such as Soundraw, Beatoven.ai and Mubert, it is one of the few that can deliver multi-track MIDI, stems and copyright transfer at the same time, and the trade-off is higher prices and tight download quotas.

Editorial take Orchestral and cinematic writing keeps it firmly in the top tier of this niche, and its official showcase page includes Nvidia GTC and Luxembourg's national day. Reception is split, though: Trustpilot averages 2.8/5, AI Flow Review gives 7/10 and AI Tools Police 3.8/5, with refunds and support repeatedly named as the weak spots. It has no public API and no VST plugin, so the only bridge to a DAW is MIDI and stems. Want vocals? Go to Suno. Want editable drafts and clean copyright? Go straight to Pro.