Udio 1.5 is an AI music generation platform that allows you to create songs from simple text prompts. You describe the type of music you want, choose a style, adjust a few settings, and the tool generates complete musical ideas in seconds.

The interesting part is that Udio is not limited to basic song creation. You can create short clips, longer tracks, instrumentals, songs with custom lyrics, genre experiments, remixes, extensions, and even edit parts of an existing song.

Creating your first song

Getting started with Udio is simple. You only need to type a prompt describing what kind of song you want.

For example, you could write something like:

A pop song about a summer heatwave and a singer who cannot wait for winter to arrive.

After clicking create, Udio generates two song options. Each version may have different lyrics, melodies, vocals, and arrangements. This gives you options instead of forcing you to work with only one result.

The first result may not always match your personal taste, but that is where Udio becomes useful. You can quickly change the genre, rewrite the prompt, adjust the lyrics, or generate another version.

Exploring genres and subgenres

One of the best ways to improve your result is by choosing a specific genre.

Instead of asking only for “a song,” you can select styles like blues, soul, funk, punk, indie folk, dream pop, progressive metal, jazz funk, or many others.

Udio also allows you to go deeper with subgenres. For example, instead of just choosing blues, you can try something more specific like blue-eyed soul. This helps the AI understand the atmosphere, rhythm, instrumentation, and vocal style you want.

You can also change the genre while keeping the same lyric idea. A soft indie folk song can become a punk track, a synth-heavy cyberpunk piece, or a soulful ballad. This makes Udio useful not only for creating finished music, but also for testing creative directions.

Creating instrumental tracks

If you want music without vocals, Udio makes that easy too.

Inside the lyrics section, you can select the instrumental option. This tells the tool not to generate sung lyrics.

For example, a prompt like:

1970s funk, jazz funk, rare grooves, record store crate digging

can generate a vintage instrumental track with a retro sound. This is useful for background music, video intros, mood boards, demos, podcast beds, or inspiration for producers.

Controlling lyrics

Udio can automatically generate lyrics, but you can also write your own.

This is especially useful when you want the song to follow a specific message, story, or structure. For short 30-second clips, it is better to keep the lyrics concise. Around six lines is usually enough.

You can also guide the structure of the song by using simple commands inside brackets, such as:

[Verse]

[Chorus]

These commands help Udio understand where each part of the song should begin. You can use them to separate verses, choruses, spoken lines, drops, intros, outros, and other musical sections.

This gives you more control over the final result, especially when you want the track to feel closer to a real song structure.

Using the Udio 130 model

Udio includes different generation lengths. You can create short 30-second clips or use the Udio 130 model to generate longer tracks of up to around two minutes and ten seconds.

The longer model is useful when you want to build a more complete song with multiple sections, such as:

Spoken intro
Verse
Pre-chorus
Chorus
Drop
Outro

The impressive part is that Udio can understand structure even when the prompt is not perfect. In the example from the transcription, the tool interpreted a pirate sea shanty style song and placed the drop in a musically appropriate moment, even though the formatting was not completely clean.

This shows that Udio can follow creative direction while still making musical decisions that feel natural.

Extending songs

After creating a clip or a longer track, you can extend it.

The extend feature allows you to add new sections to the song. You can add music after the current track, before it, as an intro, or as an outro.

This is helpful when you generate a short idea that sounds good and want to turn it into a full song. Instead of starting over, you can continue building from the part you already like.

Udio also offers crop and extend. With this feature, you can select a specific part of the waveform and generate a new continuation from that section. For example, if the last few seconds of a song have a great synth delay or atmospheric ending, you can crop that section and extend from there.

This is a powerful workflow for discovering new ideas from small moments inside a track.

Manual mode

Manual mode gives you a different way to prompt.

Instead of writing natural language sentences, you can use keywords. This is useful when you want to combine genres, moods, and instruments more directly.

For example:

dark synth, post-bop, trumpet, cyberpunk, sci-fi

This kind of prompt can lead to more experimental results. Manual mode is especially useful for users who already understand musical genres and want to guide the sound with more precision.

Advanced settings

Udio also includes advanced settings for users who want more control.

Prompt strength controls how strongly the song follows your prompt. A higher value makes the output more faithful to your description, but it can also make the result sound less natural if pushed too far.

Lyrics strength controls how clearly the AI follows and pronounces the lyrics. Increasing it can improve lyric accuracy, but it may also affect rhythm and musical flow.

Seed changes the starting point of the generation. If results are sounding too similar, randomizing the seed can help create more variety.

Clip timing helps define where the generated section should feel like it belongs in a larger song. This is useful when you are planning to extend a track later.

Lyric timing lets you decide when the singing should begin. For example, you can create a long instrumental intro before the vocals enter.

Clarity affects the fidelity of the instrumentation. Higher clarity can make the sound cleaner, but too much may reduce the natural feel.

Generation quality can be increased to ultra. It may take longer to render, but it can produce better results.

Uploading and remixing your own audio

One of the most creative features in Udio is the ability to upload your own audio.

You can take a guitar recording, vocal idea, instrumental loop, or rough demo and upload it to Udio. From there, you can remix it into a different style.

For example, a simple guitar arpeggio can be transformed into an orchestral pop arrangement. The original musical idea remains present, but Udio expands it with new instrumentation and atmosphere.

This feature is useful for musicians, producers, composers, and creators who already have musical ideas but want to explore new versions quickly.

Extending uploaded audio

You can also upload your own track and ask Udio to extend it.

This allows you to start with something you created manually and let the AI continue from it. For example, you could upload a progressive metal riff and ask Udio to build a larger song around it.

This workflow is helpful because it combines human creativity with AI assistance. You can keep your original idea while using Udio to explore where the song could go next.

Inpainting audio

Inpainting allows you to replace or fix a specific part of a song.

Instead of regenerating the entire track, you can select a section and change only that part. For example, if you like the song but dislike the opening lyric, you can highlight that section and write new lyrics.

Udio then generates a revised version while keeping the rest of the song connected.

This is very useful for polishing a track, improving weak lyrics, replacing awkward lines, or testing alternate versions without losing the entire song.

Publishing and sharing

Once the song is ready, Udio gives you several export and sharing options.

You can download the song as:

MP3
WAV
Video
Stems

You can also generate a video, edit the title, add a description, include tags, and change the cover image.

Before publishing, it is a good idea to clean up the presentation. Remove draft labels, choose a clear title, add a short description, and use relevant tags. You can also generate a cover image directly inside Udio or upload your own square artwork.

After publishing, the song becomes available to the Udio community and can be shared through a link.

Final thoughts

Udio 1.5 is more than a simple AI song generator. It can help beginners create music quickly, but it also gives advanced users enough control to experiment with structure, lyrics, genres, uploaded audio, remixing, inpainting, and song extensions.

The best way to use it is to start simple. Write a clear prompt, generate a few versions, then refine the result step by step.

You can change the genre, control the lyrics, extend the best part, remix your own audio, and polish the final version before publishing.

For creators, musicians, video editors, and anyone curious about AI music, Udio offers a practical way to turn ideas into complete songs without needing a full studio setup.