AIVA (Artificial Intelligence Virtual Artist) composes original, royalty-free music using deep learning across a wide range of styles and moods. Content creators working on films, games, podcasts, and other media can generate custom soundtracks without licensing complications, choosing from various genres and adjusting compositions to fit their project’s pacing and tone.
AIVA: AI Music Composition for Film, Games, and Ads
AIVA’s core function is to generate unique musical compositions based on user input. Users define parameters such as genre, mood, tempo, key, instruments, and track length. This allows for tailored music creation. Moreover, it lets users upload their own MIDI or audio files (MP3, WAV) to influence the AI’s composition, guiding it toward a desired sound. A built-in editor, resembling a Digital Audio Workstation (DAW), provides tools for fine-tuning tracks.
Film Composers, Game Audio Leads, and Ad Music Producers
AIVA serves a diverse audience needing bespoke background music. This includes filmmakers, videographers, game developers, and digital content creators like YouTubers. Advertisers use it for jingles, while composers and musicians find it useful for overcoming creative blocks. Educators and students also utilize AIVA as a learning and creation tool. Its primary applications involve creating custom background scores for videos, dynamic music for games, and advertising jingles.
MIDI/WAV Export, Genre Presets, and Custom Training
AIVA’s engine is trained on extensive musical datasets, including classical, cinematic, and contemporary works. It uses symbolic music modeling, deep neural networks, genre modeling, and emotion-based tagging to generate compositions. The tool claims to produce original compositions, ensuring no copyrighted audio is reused, making outputs safe for commercial distribution.
Supported Formats and Integrations:
- Export: MP3, WAV (16-bit & 48 kHz uncompressed for Pro users), and MIDI (Orchestrated and Reduced).
- Upload for Influence: MIDI, MP3, or WAV files.
- Editing: The built-in editor allows adjustments to track structure, instruments, and tempo.
- External DAWs: MIDI exports can be used in external DAWs like Logic Pro, Ableton, or FL Studio.
Generation and Storage Limits:
- Users can generate up to 5 compositions at one time, 100 per hour, and 400 per 24 hours.
- Storage is limited to 4,000 compositions.
- Uploaded audio influences longer than 5’30" or MIDI files longer than 100 bars will be trimmed.
Free (3 Downloads/Month), Standard at 15 EUR/Month
AIVA offers a freemium model with distinct plans catering to different user needs.
| Plan | Price | Key Details |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | 3 downloads/month, MIDI only, AIVA copyright |
| Standard | $11/month | 15 downloads/month, MP3/WAV, full copyright |
| Pro | $33/month | Unlimited downloads, all formats, full copyright, commercial use |
No Vocals, Repetitive Patterns in Free Tier
AIVA has emotional depth limitations in its compositions:
- Track duration limits apply: 3 minutes on Free, 5 minutes on Standard, 5:30 on Pro plan.
- Compositions can lack the emotional nuance and dynamic range of human-composed music.
- Free and Standard plans require attribution, and all outputs are subject to AIVA’s licensing terms.