Editable MIDI.
Not finished tracks.

MIDI. Staccato generates symbolic music — notes, velocities, timing, key, meter — and outputs standard type-1 .mid files. That means you pick the instrument sounds and effects yourself inside your DAW. You won't get a finished, mixed audio track the way Suno or Udio produces; you'll get the underlying composition that you can shape into your own sound. For musicians who care about owning the production, that's the point.

Text-to-MIDI starts blank. You give the AI a prompt and it composes from scratch. The MIDI Extender starts from your own clip — paste in four bars of your verse and the AI continues it in the same key, scale, tempo and rhythmic feel. It's the difference between asking an assistant for a new song and asking them to finish the one you've already started. Reviewers consistently call this the strongest extension model on the market.

Any DAW that imports standard MIDI files — which is effectively all of them. We've tested directly with Logic Pro, Ableton Live, FL Studio, Cubase, Studio One, Reaper, GarageBand and BandLab. You drag the .mid file from your browser into the DAW's piano-roll or arrangement view, assign your own instrument plugin, and you're producing. No special plugin or installer required.

Honestly, the free tier is a demo. You can generate a handful of short clips to evaluate the model, but you'll hit the paywall before you produce anything you'd actually release. The paid plans start at $6.49/month with unlimited generations and commercial rights. We'd rather be straight about this than imply there's a usable forever-free experience.

Yes. On the Pro plan, output is yours: you can release it on streaming platforms, sell it in beat marketplaces, license it for sync, use it in advertising, sample it in your own work. No royalties owed back to Staccato. The free tier is for personal/evaluation use only — check the current terms on the official site for the latest licensing language.

For musicians it's well-tuned — it respects rhyme schemes, syllable counts and genre conventions in a way a general LLM doesn't out of the box. For pure lyric depth, a specialized creative-writing tool may still produce more interesting writing. We'd describe Staccato's lyrics tool as a solid starting point that pairs naturally with the MIDI generation, not as best-in-class on its own. The instrumental side is the stronger of the two.

No, and that's deliberate. Staccato outputs MIDI specifically because MIDI invites editing — you'll almost always want to keep 50–70% of a generation and rewrite the rest in your own voice. Most musicians using the tool describe it as a collaborator that breaks them out of habit, not an automated songwriter. If you wanted an "AI does it all" experience, finished-audio tools like Suno would suit you better.

Simple Create prompts — say a 4-bar drum loop or chord pattern — usually return in 4 to 8 seconds. Complex multi-section Rewrite jobs that touch multiple bars and instruments can take around 15 seconds. There are no credit caps, so iteration is essentially unlimited within your subscription period.

Paid plans start at around $6.49 per month, with a higher Pro tier in the $7.99 range that adds commercial-use rights and the full feature set. There are no per-prompt credits — the subscription unlocks unlimited generations. Some users have noted the lack of a meaningful free trial as a downside, which is fair feedback worth weighing before subscribing.