YuE2 unifies symbolic planning and audio music generation in one foundation model, achieving frontier song quality competitive with Suno v5/v6. Through symbolic planning, it drafts an editable score, then performs full songs with vocals and accompaniment.
Explore full AI performances paired with transparent symbolic ABC notation. Listen, inspect the melodies and chord structures, and load directly into the Studio to remix.
Sentimental jazz ballad featuring vintage Rhodes electric piano, muted trumpet, and warm double bass.
Uplifting acoustic indie pop with sparkling acoustic guitar, driving kick, and sunny harmonies.
Cinematic fusion of traditional Chinese guzheng, pentatonic runs, and heavyweight cyberpunk 808 subs.
Ethereal Chinese traditional ballad with bamboo flute (dizi), guqin, and gentle orchestral strings.
High-octane Japanese anime opening rock with overdriven guitars, double-bass drumming, and powerful female vocals.
Smooth neo-soul with lush 9th chords, laidback finger snapping groove, velvety vocals, and warm brass stabs.
YuE2 covers over 30 distinct genres across Eastern and Western musical traditions, from Baroque counterpoint to modern Cyberpunk bass music.
Instruments: Rhodes Piano, Muted Trumpet, Upright Bass, Brushes
Instruments: Acoustic Guitar, Kick Drum, Claps, Warm Harmonies
Instruments: Guzheng, 808 Sub Bass, Neon Synths, Hybrid Trap
Instruments: Guqin, Bamboo Flute Dizi, Strings, Traditional Percussion
Instruments: Overdriven Electric Guitars, Double-kick Drums, Slap Bass
Instruments: 9th/11th Chords, Fender Rhodes, Laidback Pocket Drums, Velvet Vocals
Instruments: Vinyl Crackle, Detuned Tape Piano, Jazzy Boom Bap
Instruments: Full Symphony Orchestra, Taiko Drums, French Horns, Choral Hymns
Traditional music generation is a black box. YuE2 transforms music creation into an open, iterative dialogue between human intention, symbolic theory, and audio synthesis.
Your creative request ("make it jazzier", "more dramatic strings") is translated into concrete ABC notation changes—substituting triads for 7ths/9ths, adjusting accidentals, and restructuring measures.
The agent guarantees syntactic validity, bar-line timing rules, and tonal consistency across [verse], [chorus], and [bridge] boundaries before scheduling expensive audio diffusion.
YuE2 condition tokens synchronize acoustic diffusion with the verified ABC score, ensuring the rendered vocals and instruments accurately reflect the modified sheet.
Unlike closed black-box generators where you can only roll the dice on text prompts, YuE 2 gives you structural transparency, master 48kHz audio quality, and note-level ABC notation manipulation.
| Core Capabilities | YuE 2 Music | Suno v3.5/v4 | Udio v1.5 | Traditional DAW |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Note-Level Score Editing (ABC Notation) Inspect melodies, transpose keys, change chords, and modify measures. | Full ABC 2.1 Staff & AST | Black box prompt only | Tag-based black box | Manual (hours of work) |
Master Audio Sample Rate Uncompressed frequency response for professional music production. | 48kHz 24-bit True Master | 44.1kHz Lossy | 44.1kHz Lossy | 48kHz - 96kHz |
Chinese & Pentatonic Harmony Engine Deep multimodal alignment with Guzheng, Guqin, Pipa, and Dizi scales. | Native Multimodal Weights | Superficial text mapping | Very limited dataset | Requires $500+ VSTs |
In-the-loop Musical Reasoner (Agent) Ask AI in natural language to reharmonize or transpose sheet music. | Real-time Tool Calling | No music reasoning | No symbolic reasoning | No AI copilot |
Open Architecture & GPU Cluster Access Self-hostable open weights, API integration, and private inference nodes. | Open Weights & API | Proprietary Walled Garden | Closed Platform | Local Machine Only |
Transparent Pay-As-You-Go Billing Credits have generous validity windows; no forced monthly subscriptions. | Credit Packs · No Lock-in | Forced monthly recurring | Forced monthly recurring | $500+ Upfront software cost |
Full Commercial Royalties & Ownership Keep 100% of your royalties for games, streaming, and advertisements. | 100% Commercial Rights | Restricted on free tier | Restricted on free tier | 100% Owned |
The two-stage decoupled architecture combines discrete autoregressive symbolic planning with continuous acoustic flow matching.
Autoregressive transformer trained on millions of paired lyrics, ABC scores, and structural metadata. Outputs structured musical blueprints with chords, melody, and rhythm.
Flow matching diffusion model conditioned on symbolic plans and text prompts, decoded through a 48kHz neural audio VAE into full stereo arrangements.
Specialized 6-task transcription foundation model that listens to any recorded song and automatically transcribes melody, chords, beat, and structure into ABC notation.
Self-supervised music representation model holding the state-of-the-art across all 14 tasks of the international MARBLE benchmark.
From rapid song prototyping to commercial soundtrack scoring, discover how creators leverage YuE 2 to accelerate their artistic workflows.
Generate looping combat themes, serene tavern folk, or futuristic sci-fi soundscapes with deterministic key matching and stem exports.
Never suffer demonetization or Content ID takedowns again. Tailor bespoke emotional pacing and climaxes to match your video editing cuts.
Bridge the gap between lyric notes and fully arranged tracks. Explore chord substitutions and harmonic variations in seconds.
Produce explosive J-Rock opening anthems and kawaii future bass tracks with expressive bilingual singing dynamics and breath control.
Evaluated across 192 wild, diverse user prompts spanning genres, acoustic conditions, and languages. YuE2 sets the new state of the art.
| Rank | Model / System Setting | Prompts | SongBench Score ↑ | Coherence | Vocal Naturalness |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | YuE2 (best-of-8)This Work Symbolic Plan + Flow Matching | 192 | 6.9632 | 7.12 | 6.94 |
| 2 | YuE2 (single pass)This Work Direct Symbolic Planning | 192 | 6.8814 | 6.98 | 6.86 |
| 3 | Suno v5 Commercial Proprietary | 192 | 6.8721 | 6.91 | 6.84 |
| 4 | Suno v6 Commercial Proprietary | 192 | 6.5562 | 6.62 | 6.51 |
| 5 | Suno v6 Wild Unconstrained Wild Prompts | 192 | 6.4195 | 6.45 | 6.39 |
| 6 | Udio v1.5 Commercial Proprietary | 192 | 6.3120 | 6.28 | 6.35 |
Tested on WildSongBench standardized prompts with blind human and automated evaluation. YuE2 achieves frontier quality competitive with and exceeding Suno v5/v6.
Answers to common questions about symbolic planning, model weights, commercial usage, and technical capabilities.
If you use YuE2, SheetSage2, or MERT2 in your research or commercial projects, please cite the corresponding papers:
@article{yue2_2026,
title={YuE2: Frontier Full-Song Generation with Symbolic Planning},
author={Multimodal Art Projection (M·A·P) and HKUST and Tokenwave.AI and NYU and Stanford and MBZUAI},
journal={arXiv preprint},
year={2026}
}