CadenzaPrompt to full song.
Name, age, hobbies, a city, a feeling — put it in a sentence. A local language model writes singable lyrics with verses and a chorus, then YuE2 composes and performs them.
Cadenza
Your idea.
Your song.
Describe a song in one sentence. Cadenza writes the lyrics, composes the melody and sings it — a full track with vocals, made entirely on your own computer.
macOS · Windows · Linux · No account. No subscription. No limits.
One sentence in
A finished song out.
Description
Babu Paints the Sky
Hindi · Children's pop · 2:55
Lyrics, title, style, melody, chords, voice and mix — all from the line above.
Features
Everything a song needs.
Nothing it doesn't.
20+
Languages.
English, Hindi, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Punjabi and more — written in their own script.
Write lyrics, then tweak.
One click fills in the lyrics, title and style. Edit any word before you create.
A real score.
Every song starts as sheet music with melody and chords. Read it alongside the lyrics.
Variations.
Keep the composition and the singing, re-roll the sound. Seconds, not minutes.
Song Cover.
Give it a recording. Cadenza hears the melody and sings it again in any style you describe.
Instrumental.
Flip one switch for a track with no vocals — study beats, intros, background music.
A library you'll actually use.
Search by title, lyrics or style. Favourites, rename, Save As, and the full recipe of every track — prompt, lyrics, style, score and seeds.
48k
MP3 or WAV.
Studio-rate stereo. Save any track wherever you like, at up to 320 kbps or 24-bit.
Every knob, if you want it.
Length, score mode, quality steps, creativity and seeds — or ignore them all.
Light and dark.
Follows your system, or pick one. Feels at home on every desktop.
How it works
Three steps.
About as many minutes.
1
Download once.
Open Models and pick sizes that suit your computer. Cadenza checks your memory and recommends the right ones — the whole set is about 9 GB, verified and resumable.
2
Describe your song.
Type what you want to hear and press Create. Paste your own lyrics, or let the model write them. Set the length, language and number of variations under Advanced.
3
Listen, keep, share.
The song lands in your session and starts playing. Open it to read the lyrics and score, make a variation, or save it as MP3 or WAV.
Under the hood
Score first.
Then the song.
01
Write
A local LLM turns your sentence into lyrics, a title and a production brief.
02
Compose
YuE2 writes a score: melody and chords in ABC notation.
03
Sing
It performs the score as audio codes, then flow matching paints the sound.
04
Master
A neural decoder renders 48 kHz stereo, normalised and ready to play.
48 kHzstereo output
6 minmaximum song length
3.6Bparameter music model
0bytes sent to the cloud
Models
Made for the computer
you already have.
Every model comes in several sizes. A 16 GB laptop runs the light ones. A workstation can run full precision — or any model you like through Ollama.
8–16 GB
Light
- YuE2 Q5_K_M / Q6_K
- Gemma 4 E4B
- Unloads between steps
Most popular
24 GB
Quality
- YuE2 Q8_0
- Gemma 4 12B
- Better rhymes and imagery
32 GB+
Studio
- YuE2 BF16 — full precision
- Gemma 4 12B Q8 or 30–70B via Ollama
- Everything kept in memory
Apple siliconMetal · unified memory
NVIDIAVulkan
AMDVulkan
Intel ArcVulkan
Your songs stay yours.
Cadenza runs entirely on your computer. Your prompts, lyrics and music never leave it. No account, no tracking, no usage limits, no monthly bill. It even works offline once the models are downloaded.
Make your first song tonight.
Free and open source.
Questions.
Is it really free?
Yes. Cadenza is open source and everything runs on your own computer, so there's nothing to pay for and no limit on how many songs you make.
How long does a song take?
It depends on your hardware and the song length. On an Apple M1 Pro, expect a few minutes for a three-minute song. Variations of a song you've already made are much faster.
What do I need?
A Mac with Apple silicon, or a Windows or Linux PC with a recent GPU and at least 16 GB of memory. About 10 GB of free disk space for the models.
Can I sell the music I make?
No, not with the default model. The YuE2 weights are licensed CC BY-NC 4.0, which means non-commercial use only. Personal songs, gifts, family videos and experiments are all fine.
Can I use a bigger language model?
Yes. Pick a larger Gemma size in Models, or switch to Ollama or any OpenAI-compatible server in Settings and use any model you like, up to 70B on a big machine.
macOS says the app is damaged.
The app isn't notarised yet. Move it to Applications and run xattr -cr /Applications/Cadenza.app once in Terminal, then open it.