Introducing Styles
Ever struggle to describe the song in your head? The Styles feature enables you to create new songs using one or two audio clips and/or an existing Udio songs as style references, capturing a vibe more easily than ever before!
Availability
The core Styles experience is available to all Udio creators.
Some aspects of Styles -- such as Styles Blending and the Styles Library -- are only available on desktop/laptop.
And some Styles features are subscriber-only, called out below when those features are described.
How Styles makes Udio'ing easier and more fun
Faster, more directed creation: Using one or two existing songs as style 'references', you can show rather than try to describe to Udio what you want in a new song.
Creative mashups via blending: The Style Blend feature lets you take your imagination in crazy-fun directions (e.g., choral + reggae, folk + funk), even setting the relative influence of each genre.
Style Blending is a subscriber-only feature.
π However, everyone can access it through July 24! π
Kicking off a Styles creation
Styles can come from four core sources, or "references"
Your own songs on Udio
Others' songs on Udio
Note that Pro subscribers can adjust this permission [learn more].Audio uploads
Styling songs created on Udio
You can hover over any song in your library lists (including in Playlists & Favorites) and select the Style button
βFrom any song page, you can click Create and then Use Style
βYou also have access to a zillion Style options via the full Create experience; click Create on the lefthand sidebar, then select "Style Your Song".
Uploading audio as a Style
You can upload an audio clip right from the homepage...
... or via Create (lefthand side menu option) --> Use Style Reference
Two important caveats with audio uploads:
Usage rights
You must have the rights to any audio you upload to Udio.
βPublishing-on-Udio restriction
Any song that's been made from an audio upload (or stylized via any song that was made from an audio upload) cannot be published on Udio.com. However, these songs can still be shared by linking to their song page, or shared outside the platform by first downloading them as an audio or video file.
Navigating the Stylizing process
Once you're here...
...drag, select, or upload a reference style or styles.
Styling with one reference
If your reference song is longer than our 32-second context window (highlighted below), you can optionally mouse-drag the red portion to represent the part of the song you want the style referenced from.
Underneath that, you can optionally change the Style Strength. 100% means Udio will strive to leverage your reference above everything else, and 0%... er, why are you even styling?! π We default to 80%, which we generally find to be the sweet spot, but feel free to experiment!
All other settings on this page are the same as you'd find in the normal prompt-based creation flow.
Styling with two references: Blending!
Remember that you can mix-and-match reference types -- Udio songs & audio uploads!
Dragging the slider (shown below) to the left accentuates Song A, to the right (you guessed it) Song B. We've usually gotten the best results from a 50/50 split (the default) or something veering 15 points in either direction.
Troubleshooting
"Udiolish" (unwanted vocals)
If one or both of your source songs has lyrics and you're trying (but failing) to make a purely-instrumental song... selecting "Lyrics" and putting [INSTRUMENTAL BREAK] in the lyrics box can often help!
Marking Styles for later use
Save the style
On any song in your library that was crafted from a style, select Use as style via the three dot menu:
You can also click on the style or style blend descriptor in any styled song in your library and then click "Save style"
Find the style later
You'll find these marked styles under Styles (lefthand panel) --> Your Styles
Understanding how Styles fits in the Udio toolbox
Using Styles and Style Blending offers the broadest capabilities for crafting a new song from one or more source songs. This toolset pulls from instrumental makeup & sound, vocalist tone, tempo, overall sound color, song structure, and much more.
Remixing provides a more musical structure-focused mirroring, aiming primarily to recreate the basic rhythmic and tonal core of a piece.
Extending creates what the AI thinks "should come next"... a continuation rather than a mirroring.
Styles feedback & help
We know you might have a lot of feedback & questions about our Styles feature and Styles library, so we've created a dedicated #styles channel in our Discord community; hope to see you there!