What we learned from 10,000 AI prompts (and what we built because of it)
Analyzing 10,000 real AI prompts revealed where creative workflows break down. Here's how those insights shaped better AI UX and guided workflows.
The pace of AI music generation is breathtaking. What seemed impossible six months ago is now reality. In fact, it’s now yours.
We’ve integrated ElevenLabs’ latest music model, Eleven Music, into MusicGen, and the results are striking: lyric generation that captures emotion, and prompt adherence so precise it feels (almost) like telepathy.
What we’ve just launched will probably feel quaint compared to where we will be by December. And that’s a good thing. Because as the technology evolves, so too will your Envato subscription.
But right now, in this moment, our latest MusicGen represents something genuinely new: AI that understands not just music, but intention. It’s a truly fascinating time to be creating.
Let’s explore what’s new in MusicGen.
What’s new in MusicGen:
- Toggle on lyrics — Generate vocals automatically or write your own. Real songs with real words that actually make sense.
- Define song structure — Control chorus, bridge, and verse sections individually. Build tracks like a real producer.
- Powered by the best — We’re always updating MusicGen with the best models available. ElevenLabs’ Eleven Music joins other top music generation models — like Google Lyria 2 — under the MusicGen hood, so your prompt is always brought to life by the best-suited AI for the job.
Skip the hunt for “almost there” audio
Every creator knows the feeling: you have a precise sonic vision, but no practical way to realize it. The track you need exists in your mind — specific, perfect, purposeful — but not quite in the libraries you’re searching through.
MusicGen bridges that gap. Toggle on lyrics and watch it craft coherent songs with genuine vocal melodies. Provide your own words, and it treats them with musical intelligence, finding natural rhythms and emotional peaks. MusicGen understands that a bridge should build tension, that a chorus needs to soar, that verses tell stories.
The genre understanding runs deep. Request “ethereal dream pop with organic textures” and receive exactly that — not an approximation, not a guess, but music that understands the assignment at a fundamental level. MusicGen grasps subtlety, nuance, and the spaces between definitions where real creativity lives.
Dial in your mix with full production controls
Technical precision meets creative intuition. Specify 120 BPM in G major with a half-time feel, and MusicGen locks to those parameters while still creating something musical, something alive. MusicGen’s new capabilities bring a new level of prompt adherence — complex, layered instructions that once would have confused any AI now produce remarkably coherent results.
Powered by all the best and latest music generation models — including ElevenLabs’ Eleven Music, and Google Lyria 2 — MusicGen will intelligently interpret your prompt, and use the best-suited model to bring it to life.
Watch how it handles complexity: “Start intimate, solo piano and whispered vocals, gradually introduce strings at measure 16, full orchestration by the second chorus, then strip back to the original intimacy for the outro.” MusicGen parses this, understands it, executes it, and leaves you genuinely in awe with the result.
Get commercial-ready audio without the pro-level price tag
Quality without compromise. Every track exports as uncompressed PCM — studio-grade WAVs that hold up under scrutiny, in broadcast, through aggressive post-production. The fidelity is there from the start; no artifacts are hiding in the shadows, and there are no surprise frequency gaps when you push the levels.
Commercial licensing is built in and available to download with every track. It offers lifetime usage, complete coverage, and zero ambiguity. If your project scales, pivots, or explodes into something bigger than planned, the license scales with you. There is no renegotiation, no additional fees, and no legal archaeology required.
This all happens within your existing Envato subscription. There are no new logins, no separate billing, and no fragmentation of your creative tools.
Now go make some magic
Every time you use MusicGen, you’re creating something new, something yours, something that didn’t exist until you imagined it.
And you can start creating right now. To access it, head to labs.envato.com/music-gen or select Gen AI > MusicGen in your Envato menu.
Once there:
- Toggle lyrics on for vocals
- Describe what you hear in your mind
- Generate and refine sections as needed
- Download your track!
No learning curve that demands investment. No complexity masquerading as capability. Just cleaner translation from imagination to audio file.
The future of music creation is arriving in waves that are crashing on the shore of reality ever faster. This wave brings vocals, brings precision, brings creative control that actually feels like control. The next wave is already forming (and we’ll ride that one together, too). But today, right now, you can create music that sounds like what you meant — or smashes what you thought possible into pieces, leaving you with something better than you imagined.
