Audio / music / SFX
Audio — MusicGen, Stable Audio, SFX workflows
Music and sound-effect generation with the right stack documented and ready to install.
Launch standard
Pay by the hour · no contracts · terminate anytime from the dashboard
What this is
Music and SFX generation has moved past toys. MusicGen-Large, Stable Audio Open, AudioLDM 2, MAGNeT — they all have different sample-rate, conditioning, and CUDA assumptions. The instance boots on a bare CUDA 12.1 base — nothing preinstalled — but we publish the working matrix plus FFmpeg/NVENC install steps so you can render to wav / mp3 / video with baked-in audio without leaving the instance.
Our value-add
Not 'upload a prompt, get a link' — real tools, real control, real code you can version.
Environment & recommended stack
- Base image: nvidia/cuda 12.1 devel (Ubuntu 22.04)clean boot — install the stack below
- MusicGen-Large (text-to-music)recommended — 3.3B params, up to 30s clips
- Stable Audio Openrecommended text-to-audio, short clips, permissive license
- AudioLDM 2recommended text-to-audio / sound effects
- FFmpeg + NVENC/NVDECapt install — render audio to video or re-encode
- librosa + soundfile + pedalboardrecommended post-processing / DSP
You stay in control
- Bring your own reference audio for conditioning
- Full root to install Suno-API style wrappers or custom forks
- Prepaid credit cap + auto-destroy deadline for batch render jobs
Example workflow
Generate a 15-second piece with MusicGen
# pip install audiocraft
from audiocraft.models import MusicGen
import torchaudio
m = MusicGen.get_pretrained("facebook/musicgen-large")
m.set_generation_params(duration=15)
wav = m.generate(["slow ambient synth pad with a soft arpeggio"])
torchaudio.save("out.wav", wav[0].cpu(), m.sample_rate)Run inside the instance after `ssh root@<instance-ip>` or via the web terminal.
Launch options
Pick a GPU for audio / music / sfx
Recommended start
Standard — MusicGen / Stable Audio
MusicGen-Large and Stable Audio fit comfortably in 48 GB
$2.04/ hour
Launch with this configScale option
Heavy — long-form / batch
For longer clips or when you're generating at scale
$4.41/ hour
Launch with this configHourly rates shown are current target rates — the authoritative price is surfaced on the /launch page at the moment you provision. Billing is per 5 minutes of runtime.