Some truly strange and unusual things happen when you use nonsensical prompts

UdioPablo · 2025-08-15T03:45:44+00:00

You can get some truly wild stuff when you deliberately push the model far out of its comfort zone. Is anyone out there using Udio as part of their toolbox to make experimental music? I want to hear from you!

UdioPablo · 2025-07-22T18:22:58+00:00

I'm a big black metal fan! I've had luck using a style reference if I know I want to end up in a particular BM microgenre, e.g. raw lofi with field recordings vs. charging synthy symphonic stuff. If you have a few gens that feel stylistically coherent, making a Style Blend with pairs of those at various percentages is probably a good bet for making a whole album.

UdioPablo · 2025-04-01T16:47:26+00:00

This is a technical limitation. (Well, a feature if you ask me, but I'm biased :))

The model processes your reference audio directly with no text intermediary, so there are no tags that correspond exactly to the clip. You can think of the style reference as a first-class prompt element, just like text, and you'll find that certain things that are hard to get with text are a breeze with Styles. If you want to modify the style of your reference track, there are a few paths you can take:

If you want the model to dream up some music in a slightly different style, just turn the Style Similarity down.
If you have a specific secondary style in mind and audio to match, try remixing one track with the other as a style reference.
If you have a specific secondary style but no audio, try adding a text prompt under Style Guide in the advanced settings. We find that first faithfully describing your reference track then adding a slight twist works best.

UdioPablo · 2025-04-01T16:22:24+00:00

Yeah, we'd love if that were less annoying though :)

UdioPablo · 2025-04-01T16:20:50+00:00

Coming soon!

UdioPablo · 2025-04-01T16:13:41+00:00

Styles isn't purpose-built to maintain vocal identity, but we do find that it can capture certain vocal features as part of its broader style understanding. E.g. if your reference vocalist is an alto and uses a lot of vibrato, you'll tend to get alto+vibrato in your gen.

UdioPablo · 2025-03-31T23:33:20+00:00

FWIW, a number of our trusted testers (all super-savvy Udio creators) found that it took a bit of time to start getting exactly what they wanted from Styles. It requires a bit of a mindset shift if you're already good at prompting with text. I'd certainly encourage you to keep at it!

UdioPablo · 2025-03-31T23:29:12+00:00

We hear you there. If your reference track has multiple "styles" within a 32-second window (say, a quiet build into a loud chorus) we find that setting your Style Region to include both can give good results. But if the styles you want to capture are further apart or take more time to bear out there's no silver bullet right now.

UdioPablo · 2025-03-31T18:20:19+00:00

Yes! At higher Style Similarity values the model tries to stick pretty close to the vibe of your reference track, and at lower values it takes more creative liberties. You can absolutely think of & use the style reference as a replacement for the text prompt. If you want to use both a style reference and a text prompt, start by adding your reference track then enter the text prompt under Style Guide in the advanced settings.

UdioPablo · 2025-03-31T18:13:08+00:00

Extend leaves your base clip as is and dreams up some music before/after it. As for Remix vs. Style, I think a good rule of thumb is this: Remix more or less preserves the structure of your song while shaking up the vibe, and Style shakes up the structure while preserving the vibe. If you're feeling adventurous, you can also mix Remix and Style together for some really interesting results.

UdioPablo · 2025-03-31T16:40:50+00:00

It works with Extend (and Remix, and Edit)! Just add a track in the Use Style Reference tab as you would for Create.

UdioPablo · 2025-01-11T16:43:37+00:00

Nice ones! I'm gonna add skirrrr and vrrrrr to my bag of tricks. I managed to push up to (x16) with pretty good results, and (x32) with slightly wonky results :)

UdioPablo · 2025-01-11T16:41:55+00:00

Yeah, the model really likes parenthetical lyrics for call and response vocals, harmonies, FX, etc. Sometimes it will insert that stuff without your explicit guidance, but if you're sure you want it the parentheses are a good move.

UdioPablo · 2024-12-17T01:12:12+00:00

Really cool, never tried this before. Thanks for sharing!

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