We last wrote about Google’s Flow Music suite in May when it announced a partnership with Believe to make the AI tool available to the company’s artists.
Now that tool is getting better with a group of new features added to ‘Spaces’, which Google describes as a “vibe coding tool for building any custom instrument or music app”.
Now it can also generate and edit songs, including covers, replacements and extensions, as well as split stems and generate images, lyrics and videos.
The direction of travel is building Flow Music into a fully-featured AI-music studio, built around Google’s much-discussed (including by people in the music industry questioning its training choices) Lyria 3 model.
Flow Music could be viewed solely through a ‘Suno rival’ lens, but the Believe deal suggests that there is more afoot here: a suite of AI tools that Google wants to integrate directly into distributor and label workflows – and those of their artists.
The “vibe-coding” description is also interesting. “Build anything you can dream up. Audio plugins, music games, custom DAWs,” is the pitch on the Flow Music website.
Should we be talking more about the threat this part of the AI-music ecosystem – call it ‘post-DAW workspaces’ if you like – may pose to traditional digital audio workstations like Ableton, Logic Pro and Pro Tools in the future?
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