Beatoven.ai maestro
Generates royalty-free background music and text-prompted sound effects for video, podcast, game and advertising work, downloadable as MP3 or WAV with a licence emailed on every download.
- Resolution
- MP3 or WAV (bit depth and sample rate not documented)
- Weights
- Not released
- API
- Yes
- Commercial use
- The vendor keeps the copyright
The underlying model, maestro, is described by Beatoven as trained on over 3 million ethically sourced music and sound-effect tracks. Composition, Music Intelligence and Music Search APIs are offered alongside the web app.
Beatoven's terms state that, as between you and Beatoven, Beatoven owns the copyright in your AI music. You receive a synchronisation licence to use it inside your project, not ownership.
Who owns the output: the vendor, by their own terms
- May not be released on streaming platforms. Explicitly prohibited: permitting the music to be performed or distributed via any digital service provider.
- Output may not be used to train AI. Prohibited: using it to train any AI system.
Specification
- What it takes in
- text
- What it makes
- audio
- Maximum duration
- not established
- Maximum resolution
- MP3 or WAV (bit depth and sample rate not documented)
- Controls
- style-prompting
- Weights
- Not released
- API
- Yes
- Pricing
- Pay per track or subscribe for download minutes, per the homepage. Specific tier names and prices could not be verified - https://www.beatoven.ai/pricing returned HTTP 404 on repeated fetches.
- Released or updated
- not established
Maximum duration is not established here. That means no page we could retrieve stated it, not that the model lacks one.
Strengths
- Synchronisation licence is perpetual and survives subscription changes
- Ethically-sourced training data claim
- Music and SFX in one product
- Composition, Music Intelligence and Music Search APIs
- Explicitly aimed at video, podcast and ad use
Weaknesses
- Beatoven retains copyright; you get a sync licence only
- Cannot release tracks standalone or to Spotify/Apple Music
- Terms of Service last updated June 2024 and do not address plan tiers
- Pricing page was unreachable (404), so no verified prices
- No documented maximum track length
- Hedged copyright-claim wording ('ideally, you should not get a copyright claim')
Best for
- Background beds for YouTube, podcasts and ads where you only need sync rights
- Developers embedding music generation via API
Where the sources disagree
Recorded rather than resolved. Picking the tidier number would hide the fact that the vendor's own pages do not agree.
- Marketing says tracks are 'always cleared for commercial use' and users get 'a non-exclusive perpetual licence'; the Terms of Service make clear Beatoven owns the copyright and the licence is limited to synchronised use within your project.
- https://www.beatoven.ai/pricing is linked from the homepage but returned HTTP 404 when fetched, so no pricing is recorded.
What to understand before using it
Explainers naming the mechanisms this model's own documentation mentions.
See it from the vendor
Shotcraft hosts no sample output. Judging a model means watching its own showreel with your own eyes, and a clip re-hosted here would be a clip we chose.
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