An AI song generator that hands you the sheet music

What it does

YuE2 Studio wraps YuE2, the open song model from M-A-P, in a native Windows desktop app. You give it a style and lyrics; it composes a melody with chords as sheet music (ABC notation, engraved for reading), then performs the whole thing as a full song with vocals — up to ten minutes, offline, on an NVIDIA card with 6 GB+ VRAM. The runtime is Rust and React in a Tauri window over yue2.cpp, the C++/CUDA port of the model. No Python anywhere in the runtime path, which is the whole point: one installer, one executable.

The interesting bit

The score is a first-class output, not a curiosity. Edit the notes, tempo or key and re-render: the composition stays, only the sound changes. Every track also keeps its request and audio codes, so you can replay it bit-for-bit or re-render with a new seed and different settings without composing again. That’s a workflow most cloud music generators don’t offer at any price.

Key highlights

• Full songs with vocals from style + lyrics; a 3:38 song renders in about 46 seconds on an RTX 4090 with the Q8_0 set
• Covers via SheetSage2: transcribe a recording to a score, then have YuE2 sing it in your style
• Six-stem separation (HT-Demucs), any track to multi-instrument MIDI, word-level karaoke timing
• Train your own LoRA on your GPU with a three-step wizard, resumable after crashes
• An MCP server so an AI agent can drive the whole studio by itself
• Extras that range from practical (proxy support, FLAC/MP3 export) to nostalgic (a full skinned Winamp 2 mode with MilkDrop)

Caveats

• Windows-only; AMD and Intel via Vulkan are explicitly experimental
• Covers are fragile: new lyrics must match the original’s syllable count and stress placement, or the singing drifts off the tune, and transcription mistakes carry through
• The feature list is enormous — covers, training, MIDI editing, mastering — so expect a lot of surface area to learn

Verdict

For anyone who wants local, offline song generation with actual control over the composition — and a GPU to spare — this is a serious tool, not a toy. If you’re on macOS/Linux or want a minimal one-button generator, keep moving.