How to add a backing track to your vocals with AI

Step 1: Record a usable vocal

1. Quiet, soft room (a wardrobe or a car works).
2. Phone 15–30 cm from your mouth.
3. Metronome in one earbud for a steady tempo.
4. No reverb or effects.
5. A second of silence at the start and end.

Step 2: Upload and describe the backing

Our voice memo had a gentle, folky melody, so we wrote: "warm acoustic folk, fingerpicked guitar, soft cello, light percussion, intimate".

Step 3: Generate and compare styles

Try the same vocal in two genres. Our second try, "upbeat pop, piano, claps, bass, big final chorus", turned the same melody into a much brighter song. Hearing both helps you decide what the song wants to be.

Step 4: Fix common problems

• Backing drifts from the voice: re-record with a metronome.
• Too busy: ask for fewer instruments or "stripped-back".
• Noisy recording: record again in a quieter space; noise confuses the arrangement.

Step 5: Share or develop

Download the result (downloads are unlimited and never use credits.) and share it as a demo, or split it into stems to rework the arrangement in a DAW.

Common mistakes

• Recording with music playing in the background.
• Adding reverb or auto-tune before uploading.
• Singing without a steady tempo, then expecting a tight drum groove.
• Asking for too many instruments for a quiet, intimate song.

Genre ideas for the same vocal

• Acoustic folk: fingerpicked guitar, cello, light shaker.
• Piano ballad: piano and soft strings.
• Pop: piano, claps, bass, synth pads.
• R&B: Rhodes, soft 808s, finger snaps.
• Cinematic: strings, piano and slow toms.