How to create a song
Create musicThis is a universal guide to the Create music section. Available fields and optional parameters may vary depending on the active generation module, but the overall workflow stays the same.
The essentials in one minute
- Open Create music.
- For a vocal song, paste your finished lyrics. For music without words, enable Instrumental.
- In Style, describe the genre, mood, tempo, instruments, and sound character.
- If you want, select Female or Male vocals. With neither selected, vocals are chosen automatically.
- You can enter a title now or leave it blank.
- Click Create. 1 credit is used for one AI generation.
- Follow the generation in Queued. When it finishes, the ready result or results appear in Ready.
- Listen to the ready results. You can download, delete, or prepare them for publishing.
- Publish first opens the regular track editor. The track becomes public only after you click Save in that editor.
1. What a credit means
- 1 credit is used for one AI generation. Your current balance is shown at the top of the creation form.
- A credit is charged when the generation job is created.
- Once generation completes successfully and at least one ready result is delivered, the credit is considered used and is not returned if you dislike the result, delete it, or decide not to publish it.
- A credit is returned automatically only when a confirmed technical failure prevents successful generation and no ready result is delivered.
- If your balance is zero, you cannot start another generation until credits are added.
2. Lyrics and structure tags
For a vocal song, add lyrics in the Lyrics field. You can paste finished lyrics or use the Create β assistant when it is available in the current interface.
- You can enter Russian, English, or another language. If the current module provides a language selector, choose the needed option; otherwise the system determines it automatically.
- Maximum lyric length is 3000 characters.
- For song structure, we recommend English labels in square brackets:
[Verse],[Chorus],[Bridge], and similar tags. - The lyrics themselves can be in any language. It is the structure labels that are best kept in English.
- Put each structure tag on its own line and place the lyrics for that section below it.
- Tags guide the structure but are not strict commands; the final arrangement may vary slightly.
Common tags:
[Intro];[Verse 1],[Verse 2];[Pre-Chorus];[Chorus];[Post-Chorus];[Bridge];[Final Chorus];[Outro].
Optional tags when useful: [Instrumental Break], [Guitar Solo], [Breakdown].
Recommended example:
[Intro] [Verse 1] First verse... [Pre-Chorus] Pre-chorus... [Chorus] Chorus... [Verse 2] Second verse... [Pre-Chorus] Pre-chorus... [Chorus] Chorus... [Bridge] Bridge... [Final Chorus] Final chorus... [Outro]
You can also add a short performance hint inside a tag, for example [Verse 1 - soft, intimate], [Chorus - powerful], or [Bridge - whispered]. Keep these hints short; detailed sound directions belong in the Style field.
3. Instrumental music
For music without vocals, enable Instrumental.
- Lyrics are not required in this mode.
- Vocal and vocal-language settings are not used in this mode and may be disabled.
- The Style field becomes the key instruction for the result.
Example: “dark atmospheric post-rock, slow build, reverb electric guitars, live drums, large emotional ending”.
4. How to fill in Style
Style is the most important description of the sound you want. Do not write a long story. A short list of musical characteristics works better.
Useful formula: genre → mood → instruments → sound character → arrangement details. If the current module has separate BPM, key, language, or vocal controls, it is better to use those fields.
Using artist or band names to imitate their sound is prohibited. Describe the desired result through genre, mood, instruments, tempo, and sound characteristics. Detected artist names are automatically replaced with a description of the corresponding musical characteristics.
- Genre: pop, rock, metal, hip-hop, R&B, electronic, jazz, etc.
- Mood: dark, aggressive, melancholic, romantic, energetic, tense.
- Tempo: slow, medium, fast; you may also add an approximate BPM.
- Instruments: electric guitars, piano, synths, strings, live drums, 808 bass, etc.
- Sound: vintage, clean, dirty, spacious, minimal, dense, cinematic.
- Structure: quiet intro, powerful chorus, short bridge, instrumental ending, etc.
Too vague: “rock”.
Better: “alternative rock, 95 BPM, tense mood, dense electric guitars, live drums, melodic chorus, atmospheric bridge, clean modern mix”.
Style language: you can write in Russian or English, but English is recommended for more consistent interpretation of musical terminology. Rivrox sends the entered text to generation without automatic translation. If you use English musical terms, keep them as written.
A Create β assistant may be available next to Style to help formulate or improve the description.
Maximum Style length is 1024 characters.
5. Optional parameters
The available optional parameters depend on the active generation module.
- If vocal selection is available, you can choose female, male, or leave it automatic.
- If language selection is available, choose a vocal language or an automatic option.
- If BPM, key, or other musical controls are available, use them as additional guidance.
- In Instrumental mode, vocal and language parameters are not used.
Optional settings guide generation but do not guarantee literal execution of every parameter.
6. Track title
- You can enter a title immediately — up to 50 characters.
- If you enter a title, the finished track keeps that title.
- If you leave the field blank, the result uses an automatically generated title when one is available.
- If no automatic title is available either, the interface falls back to “Untitled”.
- You can change the title in the regular track editor before publishing.
7. Why the Create button is disabled
The button becomes available only when the required information is filled in.
- Vocal song: Lyrics and Style are required.
- Instrumental: only Style is required.
- Your balance must also contain at least 1 credit.
The title is optional.
8. What happens after you click Create
- 1 credit is charged.
- The job enters the queue.
- Cards for the generating results appear in Queued.
- Sometimes other generations are already ahead of yours. In that case, simply allow a little more time; when available, the queue position is shown on the card.
- Once generation starts, the card shows a clear progress indicator.
- When finished, the ready result or results automatically appear in Ready.
You do not need to keep the page open. Once the job appears in Queued, it has been saved on the server and continues processing independently of your browser. You may visit another page, close the tab, or sign out. Later, sign in to the same account and open Create music again to see the active job or finished result.
Important: after clicking Create, wait until the job actually appears in Queued. Do not start another generation just because the result is not immediate: every new generation is a separate job and uses another credit.
9. What the tabs mean
- Queued — jobs waiting or currently generating. If other jobs are ahead of yours, that is normal; generation starts automatically when your turn comes.
- Ready — completed tracks that have not been published yet. You can listen, download, delete, or send them to the editor.
- Published — tracks that went through the regular editor and were saved as publications.
The search field above the tabs lets you find a generation by title.
10. What you can do with ready tracks
- Listen — play it directly from the result card.
- Download MP3 — the file is prepared and downloaded through Rivrox; external links are not shown.
- Download WAV — when WAV is still available, the remaining time is shown next to the menu item.
- Publish — open the standard track editor.
- Delete — permanently delete an unpublished result and its temporary files.
11. WAV is available for a limited time
WAV is shown only when it is available for a particular result. Depending on the active module, WAV may be an original file or prepared separately. Some results may have a limited retention period.
- The remaining time is shown next to Download WAV.
- If a retention period is shown next to WAV, download the file in advance.
- After the retention period ends, the WAV download item disappears.
- If you manually replace the audio of a published track, the old AI WAV is no longer offered because it no longer matches the current audio.
12. How to publish a track
The Publish action does not publish immediately.
- Click Publish.
- The standard track editor opens.
- Review or change the title, genre, cover, and other available details.
- Click Save.
- Only after saving is the track considered published; it appears among your regular tracks and in Published.
After saving, the published track goes through the regular Rivrox processing flow, including standard audio analysis. If you open the editor and leave without saving, the track does not become public.
13. How to get better results
- Avoid contradictory Style instructions. “Very slow” and “extremely fast” at the same time makes the result unpredictable.
- Put the important information first. Genre and mood matter more than tiny details.
- Keep lyric lines singable. Extremely long lines are harder to fit naturally into rhythm.
- Repeat your chorus consistently if you want a recognizable refrain.
- Name important instruments. For example, “saxophone solo in the ending” or “acoustic guitar in the verses”.
- Do not try to fix everything with one huge prompt. Change one or two key properties and start a new generation.
14. If you do not like the result
The output of each generation is created anew, so it can differ even with the same lyrics and Style.
- Change the tempo, mood, instruments, or vocal direction.
- Simplify an overly long or contradictory Style description.
- Adjust the lyric structure.
- Creating another result is a new generation and uses another credit.
- A credit is not returned for a successfully generated track simply because you dislike it, delete it, or choose not to publish it.
15. AI generation output characteristics
Music is created by a generative model, so the result is not completely predictable even when the same lyrics and Style are used.
- If a generation produces more than one result, those results may differ noticeably in arrangement, vocals, structure, and duration.
- An individual result may be longer or shorter than expected.
- A composition may end earlier than expected or stop abruptly without a conventional musical ending.
- In rare cases, a ready result may contain audible artifacts, vocal or structural glitches, or other technical defects.
- Lyrics, structure tags, and Style guide the generation but do not guarantee that every instruction will be followed literally.
Listen to the entire track before publishing it. An automatic credit refund is issued only when the generation itself ends with a confirmed technical failure and no ready result is delivered. Characteristics or defects in a ready result do not by themselves trigger an automatic refund. If there is an obvious technical problem, you can report it through the feedback form.
16. Generation error and credit refund
A confirmed generation failure returns the charged credit once. If a connection failure leaves the submission outcome unknown, the job needs checking; a second paid request is not sent automatically.
If the displayed balance does not refresh immediately, reload the page. If the credit does not return after a technical failure, contact us through the feedback form.
17. Frequently asked questions
- Do I need to choose the song language? — If the current module has a Language field, use it. If not, the language is determined automatically.
- Can I create a song without lyrics? — Yes. Enable Instrumental and fill in Style.
- Can I leave the title blank? — Yes. A temporary title is used until publishing.
- Why is the generated track not immediately on my profile? — A ready generation is not yet a publication. Click Publish, then save it in the regular editor.
- Can I download before publishing? — Yes, from the ready track menu.
- Can I delete an unwanted result? — Yes, while it is still an unpublished result.
- Why is WAV unavailable? — WAV is not available for every module or result and may have a limited retention period. It may also stop being offered after manually replacing the published track audio.
- How many results do I get per credit? — 1 credit is used for one AI generation. The number of results depends on the active generation module.
- Which generation model do you use? — We use modern music-generation models that may be updated or changed as the service evolves. Specific models and technical providers are not disclosed.
- Do I get my credit back if I do not like the track? — No. If generation completed successfully and ready results were delivered, the credit is considered used. Automatic refunds are only for a confirmed technical failure of the entire generation.
- What if a ready result has an obvious technical defect? — An automatic refund is not issued if the generation as a whole completed successfully and at least one ready result was delivered. Keep the generation details and report the problem through the feedback form.
- Can a track end too early or abruptly? — Yes. AI may interpret structure and duration differently, so listen to the entire result before publishing.
18. Rights and third-party material
Do not use material that you do not have the right to publish. If lyrics, samples, or other elements belong to someone else, make sure you have the necessary rights before using or publishing them.
19. If something is not working
- Reload the page and check whether the track appears in Queued or Ready.
- Do not start a duplicate generation until you are sure the previous one actually failed.
- Check your credit balance.
- If the problem repeats, use the feedback form and briefly describe what happened.
Last updated: September 7, 2026