By SongTools.ai
If you've gone looking for the MIDI Generator and found a redirect instead, this is why: it's retired, and AI MIDI generation now lives at MIDI Lab, a real-time platform built for a genuinely different, harder problem than a text-to-MIDI-file tool ever solved.
If you've clicked into the tool you remember as SongTools.ai's MIDI Generator recently, you landed on a redirect instead of a prompt box. That's intentional, and it's not a case of a feature getting quietly cut and never replaced. AI MIDI generation didn't disappear, it moved, to a platform that was already doing it better: MIDI Lab.
This isn't an apology post. It's an explanation, because the decision is worth explaining properly, and because MIDI Lab is worth knowing about on its own merits, not just as "the place the old tool redirects to."
SongTools.ai's whole model is picking a specific job, building one tool that's genuinely excellent at it, and not spreading effort thin trying to be mediocre at everything. That's true of Stem Isolator, which runs real open-source Demucs source separation rather than an EQ trick pretending to isolate a vocal. It's true of AI Mastering, which uses actual reference-track matching (Matchering) instead of a black-box genre preset. It's true of Vocal Remover, the fast, focused version of that same stem-separation engine for anyone who just needs vocals out or an instrumental.
The old MIDI Generator didn't clear that bar the way those tools do. It took a text prompt and handed back a downloadable MIDI file, useful, but a fundamentally static, single-shot kind of tool solving a fairly well-worn problem. Meanwhile, a much harder and more interesting problem, generating MIDI in real time and streaming it live into actual hardware synthesizers, with zero install, from inside a browser, was already being solved properly by a dedicated platform built specifically for it. Continuing to run our own, lesser version of that alongside it stopped making sense. So we retired ours and started sending people to the one that's actually built for the job: our friends over at MIDI Lab.
This is the part worth explaining properly, because "AI MIDI generator" undersells it. MIDI Lab isn't a tool that generates a file and hands it to you to download and drag into a DAW. It's a real-time AI MIDI engine that streams generated MIDI data live, over Web MIDI, directly to your hardware synths as it's being created, no plugin, no download, no software install. You open it in a browser tab, plug in your gear, and the notes arrive on your hardware the moment they're generated.
A few things make that meaningfully different from a text-to-MIDI-file generator:
None of that is a knock on what a simpler MIDI generator does; it's just a different category of tool solving a different, harder problem, and MIDI Lab is who actually solved it.
If you've purchased credits on SongTools.ai in the past, there's a promo code waiting for you at MIDI Lab: use SONGTOOLS20 at signup for 20 bonus credits, stacked on top of MIDI Lab's normal signup bonus. It's a small thank-you for being part of this audience already, and it's live right now, no waiting required.
Nothing else changes. Every other tool you'd normally reach for, Stem Isolator and Vocal Remover for splitting tracks, AI Mastering for a reference-matched master, plus the rest of the production and forensics toolkit, is exactly where it was, built to the same bar it's always been held to. MIDI generation is simply the one piece of that workflow that now happens somewhere else, because somewhere else already does it better than we were going to.
If real-time AI MIDI into hardware synths is new to you, it's worth just going and trying it rather than taking this description as the whole picture, MIDI Lab is free to start, and the difference between reading about a live MIDI stream and actually hearing notes land on your own gear in real time is a big one.
Q: Why did SongTools.ai remove the MIDI Generator?
A: It wasn't removed and left unreplaced, it was retired because a better tool for the same underlying job already existed. Real-time AI MIDI streamed live to hardware synths is a harder, different problem than generating a static downloadable MIDI file, and MIDI Lab, a dedicated platform built specifically for that problem, already does it better than SongTools.ai's generator did.
Q: Where did MIDI generation move to?
A: MIDI Lab, a real-time AI MIDI platform that streams generated MIDI directly to hardware synths live, with a browser-based, zero-install setup and support for collaborative live sessions.
Q: Is MIDI Lab part of SongTools.ai, or made by the same team?
A: No. MIDI Lab is a separate company and product. We're pointing people there because it's genuinely the best tool available for real-time AI MIDI, not because it's an internal SongTools.ai project.
Q: I've bought credits on SongTools.ai before, do I get anything at MIDI Lab?
A: Yes. Use promo code SONGTOOLS20 at MIDI Lab for 20 bonus credits on top of the normal signup bonus, as a thank-you for being a SongTools.ai customer already.
Q: What's actually different about MIDI Lab compared to a normal AI MIDI generator?
A: A typical MIDI generator takes a prompt and hands back one finished file to download. MIDI Lab generates and streams MIDI continuously in real time directly to your hardware synths over Web MIDI, lets you evolve the generation live instead of starting over, and supports jam sessions where other people can remote-control the same hardware setup with you.
All the tools discussed in this article are available on SongTools.ai, free to explore.