AIVA Freemium

AIVA is an AI music composer from Aiva Technologies (Luxembourg) that generates orchestral, cinematic and electronic tracks from style presets or your own MIDI. Unlike song generators, it outputs score-like material with stems and MIDI. Free accounts get limited downloads; copyright transfers to you only on paid plans.

What is AIVA and who made it?

AIVA — Artificial Intelligence Virtual Artist — launched in 2016 and was one of the first systems publicly registered as a composer with a rights society (SACEM). It is built for people who need background and score music: filmmakers, game studios, YouTubers who want something other than a loop pack.

The model was trained on around 30,000 classical and contemporary scores. That training data shows. Ask for an emotional piano cue and you get something that sounds like a competent film composer took a pass at it — voiced chords, dynamics, a real ending. Ask for a pop song with a hook and you will be disappointed.

AIVA product features

• 250+ style presets grouped into cinematic, pop, electronic, jazz and world categories, each tagged by mood and tempo range.
• MIDI and stem export. Every track downloads as WAV or MP3, plus individual instrument stems and an editable MIDI file you can open in Logic, Ableton or Cubase.
• Duration control up to 3 minutes per generation on standard plans, longer cues via section-based generation.
• Style transfer from audio or MIDI. Upload a reference track or hum a melody and AIVA re-composes around it.
• Editor view. A piano-roll style timeline where you move, mute or stretch individual instrument tracks before export.
• Ownership on paid tiers. Pro and Pro Unlimited subscribers receive full copyright of generated tracks; free tier output is for personal, non-commercial use only.

Product highlights

Pricing runs roughly €11/month for Standard, €33/month for Pro and €49/month for Pro Unlimited (annual billing is cheaper). The Pro tier is where copyright transfer and monetisation rights appear — a detail many reviewers skip. If you plan to put AIVA music in a monetised YouTube video or an indie game, you need Pro or above.

What separates it from Suno and Udio: AIVA is instrumental-first. No vocals, no lyric prompting, no 2-minute pop structure. The trade-off is that it produces usable multitrack material rather than a finished song. A game developer can take an AIVA cue, mute the strings and keep the percussion. That is not possible with a black-box song generator.

Generation is fast — most 90-second cues render in under 30 seconds — and the free tier gives 3 downloads per month, enough to evaluate but not to ship.

What can you use AIVA for?

1. Indie game soundtracks. Generate 8-12 loopable loops per level, export MIDI, then re-orchestrate with your own sample library.
2. Short film and documentary scoring. Temp tracks that are actually licensable rather than a copyrighted reference cue.
3. YouTube and podcast beds. 60-90 second intros and outros with consistent mood across episodes.
4. Trailer and ad music. Cinematic presets with rising tension sections, edited in the timeline view.
5. Music students and composers. Use generated MIDI as a harmonic starting point and rewrite the melody yourself.

Is AIVA better than Suno or Udio?

No — it is a different job. Suno and Udio win on vocals and full songs for social content. AIVA wins when you need stems, MIDI, and a track that can be edited inside a DAW. It also wins on rights clarity: the copyright position on paid AIVA plans is spelled out, while Suno’s commercial terms have shifted more than once.

Weaknesses are real. The orchestral library behind AIVA’s previews is decent but not Vienna Symphonic. The editor is basic next to a real DAW. And the “inspired by” style transfer produces recognisably derivative results if you push it too close to a living composer.

Quick Summary

• AIVA is an AI composer by Aiva Technologies (Luxembourg), trained on roughly 30,000 classical scores, focused on instrumental music.
• It exports WAV/MP3, stems and editable MIDI — something Suno and Udio do not.
• Plans run about €11-€49/month; copyright transfer requires the Pro tier or higher.
• Best for game, film and video creators who edit music in a DAW. Not for anyone who wants a finished vocal song.