Lyria: instrumental scores and full songs with vocals
Google's Lyria 2 writes a 30-second instrumental from a description. Lyria 3.5 goes further: a whole song, lyrics and vocals included, from one sentence.
Real results
Made in solorender with these models. Nothing retouched.
Best for
- ✓Lyria 2: instrumental scores to sit under a video
- ✓Lyria 3.5: a full song with sung lyrics from one sentence
- ✓Lyria 2 has an Avoid box, for leaving out things like drums or vocals
Where it struggles
- —Lyria 2 makes one track of about 30 seconds. For a longer bed, make two and join them in the Video editor
- —Name the instruments, the mood and the tempo. Our western prompt asked for music "starting on the very first beat", and it did
Prompts that work
Each one opens the studio with the prompt already in the box. They are also one click away inside the app, under the prompt field.
Score under a scene
Try it →Calm cinematic piano and strings, a stormy sea at dusk, slow and hopeful
Lyria 2. Name the instruments and the feeling.
Genre theme
Try it →Classic 1960s spaghetti-western showdown theme: a bold twangy reverb electric guitar riff starting on the very first beat, a lonely whistled melody answering it, cracking whip and clip-clop percussion, a heroic trumpet call, galloping rhythm.
Lyria 2. List what you'd hear, in order.
A whole song
Try it →A gentle folk song about a lighthouse keeper waiting for someone to come home
Pick Lyria 3.5. One sentence about the story is enough; it writes the lyrics.
Questions
Can Lyria write lyrics and sing?
Lyria 3.5 can. Our lighthouse song above has verses, a bridge and a chorus it wrote itself.
How long is a Lyria track?
Lyria 2 makes about 30 seconds. Lyria 3.5 made a three-minute song from our prompt.
How is Lyria priced?
One flat price per track or song. Both prices are at the top of this page.
Run these for real
Every model in this guide is live in solorender. Credits never expire.
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