🕶️Styles
An addition to the text-based prompting system, and a cornucopia of new potential sounds. Probably one of the greatest Udio tools!
Styles is a very powerful relatively new tool which allows you to use an upload or track to "style" the clip you're going to generate. Instead of using the Core Prompt Box, the AI Model will use information from the section of the clip you're styling to determine what the "style" of that song is, and align the new clip in the same style. Pretty nifty!
You access Styles through the triple period under the Create menu. When doing this from a song, it will not extend the song, rather it (by default) will set up to generate a new clip, using the song you selected as the style reference.
You can use styles when extending however, and it's pretty easy:
The Styles area can be accessed at the top of a create page, byselecting the "Use Style Reference". Once activated an empty box will appear. You need to add a song to this box by dragging it in from your library on the right, or by selecting "styles" on the triple period menu of a song of choice.
On mobile, if you are on a create page, select "use styles" and you'll get the option to uplaod or pick from your library. If you select from your library, you'll be returned to your library. Pick the song you want by clicking the triple period and then "use Style". This will return you to the create page with the song loaded in.
A few numbers on the image above, let's run them through:
This is the Style Region. Only this part of the song will be used the influence the clip you generate. This is fixed at 32ish seconds, and cannot be changed. You can however generate a 130 second clip from a 32 seconds style reference.
This is the similarity slider. The higher it is, the more similar in "style" to the original clip your generated clip will be. Note: this is a prompt replacement system not a remix. So even at maximum similarity, you will NOT get the same melody as the original clip, but you should get an identical soundscape and vocalist who sounds very close to the original.
This shows which song is loaded up to be used as the Styles reference.
Below this, all the tools are identical to those found in Create, except for one.
In advanced controls, there is also a Style Guide option that appears if you are using Styles:
This, and the similarity slider are big part of the sheer potential of Styles. The Style Guide allows you to add text-based prompts to the generation process, similar to the Core Prompt Box These can influence how the Styles clip is generated. Tinkering with this and the similarity slider allows you to generate thousands upon thousands of different clips from a single 32 second section of a track just by altering small details. Adjusting the position slider even a small amount, will affect this further. You can effectively create entire albums from one song using Styles, that will have a cohesive sound. It's a very cool and powerful tool when used correctly.
At current Styles is only available to pro-account subscribers and cannot be used on models other than 1.5
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