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https://sonauto.ai/

Create hit songs with AI

Sonauto is an AI music editor that turns prompts, lyrics, or melodies into full songs in any style. For example, in a few minutes with Sonauto you can make an original birthday song for your friend, sung by Frank Sinatra.
Sonauto
Founded:2023
Team Size:2
Location:San Francisco
Group Partner:Jared Friedman
  

Active Founders

Ryan Tremblay, Founder

Studied Computer Science (focus: ML) and History (focus: authoritarian regimes) at Cornell. Previously, I worked on core engineering teams at early and growth stage AI and creator economy startups. My goal is to help people be more creative by making GPUs go brrr.
Ryan Tremblay
Ryan Tremblay
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Hayden Housen, Founder

Currently, building a platform to share AI generated music and researching AI song generation. Previously, a software engineering intern at Vocode (YC W23) and an intern on the Machine Learning Team at Ada.
Hayden Housen
Hayden Housen
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Company Launches

Sonauto 🎸 Make hit songs with AI

TL;DR: Sonauto is an AI music editor that turns prompts, lyrics, and melodies into full songs in any style. Try it now!

For example, in a few minutes with Sonauto you can:

(Note: Use our website to hear the songs without YouTube compression)

Team

Ryan graduated in December with CS and History degrees from Cornell, though was also nearing completion of an early masters program focusing on ML. He also spent a year and a half researching music AI on the side in collaboration with the HarmonAI (by Stability) and open-source researchers.

Hayden was a Junior at Cornell until December. He was previously published at NeurIPS, the author of one of the first open-source transformer summarization libraries, and support unicorn Ada's youngest ML engineer intern at eighteen.

Problem

Records, radio, digital, streaming, TikTok. The music industry is well acquainted with transformation. However, participation has remained exclusive throughout. The software and sound engineering skills necessary to produce music at the quality mainstream listeners expect remain out of the hands of millions of would-be musicians. Accordingly, humanity is missing out on countless incredible songs and musical styles that could have been.

Product

Starting today, everyone is a professional musician. Make your first song right now at https://sonauto.ai!

Sonauto is training a music foundation model to allow you and musicians of any skill level to produce radio-quality songs with no prior knowledge. We're calling it Melodia.

Our first release is a text-to-music service reminiscent of Midjourney, along with a sharing platform. You can enter a description of the musical and lyrical qualities of the music you're imagining and receive a fully-produced song in seconds, or keep editing for something even more special. In addition, you can share, comment on, and remix the creations of others.

Asks

  1. Make some songs at https://sonauto.ai! For example, you can make a song about:
    1. Your S/O - makes for a great surprise gift!
    2. Your pet
    3. Your company, startup, or side project
    4. A song for your friend/family member with an upcoming birthday
  2. Post lyrics videos (Editor → Share → Download → Video) of your favorite songs on X and ping us there @SonautoAI
  3. Let us know if any words (esp. technical terms) are consistently mispronounced. We can fix them very quickly once we're aware of them.