Track Mastering Functionality
Keith Altman
It would be great to be able to master my completed tracks within the udio environment. In addition to inpaint, remix, and extend, there could be a master function. Bandlabs mastering tool could be used as a source of inspiration. This could increase the overall quality of the tracks that udio is associated with and significantly simplify workflows for users.
Shane
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Remastering tool
Michael Smith
Can you please add a remastering tool that we can remaster the whole song. Udio does have clarity but some songs I created need a whole song remastering tool to remastering the sounds and voice clarity that need help but can remastering it all at once
Shane
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changing volume of so g fragments (whole or on separate stems)
Piotr Sobczyński
Sometimes udio changes volume over different generations. Being able to change volume of selected fragment of a song might be helpful. For. Pro users, the same for fragments of individual stems.
Shane
Segmented Volume Adjustments would be a part of a mastering suite. May even be able to be applied by automated AI function.
Shane
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Remaster Song Using New Models
Dan Hastings
If ive created a complete track with Udio 1.0 and i want to take advantage of the improvements that have come with 1.5 or 2.0 whenever it launches, it would be nice to have a remaster option. The AI will take my old song and remake the entire song with the same lyrics, melody etc. but with improved stem separation, vocal quality and whatever other advantages come with future models.
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Rolf Joseph
I developed a process for subsequent mastering as follows:
- Save Udio song in MP3 format
- first mastering with an online provider ($36/year)
- second mastering with another online provider (free of charge)
- Upscaling from 44.1 to 48 kHz (free)
For me there is a noticeable improvement and the sound is much clearer. You can't immediately tell whether the song was created with Udio 1.5 or 1.0.
Here are the links:
- Original https://www.udio.com/songs/4JEKmD3AyKsynJs1CZz6SE
- mastered https://www.udio.com/songs/aEe2NkpSCiuKd4ZUhEbkB7
The richness of the sound is specified as 256 bits.
This song is said to have achieved 94% studio quality.
This is how a Udio song becomes a Hi-Res 320 Kbit mastered mp3 with 48 Khz. The sound is now at the level I imagine it to be here.
HGTY
As the sound quality provided by Udio right now is average, you'll barely get anything professionnal out of it, udio needs to improve the sound quality by 100% for us to be able to get a clear professionnal master out of what the sound quality is right now, just decent sound, but still like average MP3.
dumbo8000
Although I understand the idea of "one stop shopping" in general, I think there is one very important thing to remember: udio is trained on already mastered songs. Mastering can be an art form or just a means to an end, where you see that your music fits into a given genre and/or distribution medium. I spent the last weeks trying to optimise my udio generations by "remastering" them (even separating the stems with diffent tools). But I found out, that it is often just an adjustment of levels. When I compared the results "blindfolded", I often liked the original better than the remastered version and after thinking about why, I realized, that the reason is like afore mentioned, that udio is trained on production ready songs and already tries to replicate a "mastered" sound. The only thing that really needs adjusting are the transients on drums. They are already much better with Version 1.5 but there is still room for improvement.
So my opinion: The option af cleaning up start and end, adjusting proper fades and overall levels; YES.
But real mastering is something completely different and the preparation normally starts even at the early production level (song layout, separation of tracks, grouping, busses, pre and post fx compression, eqing etc.etc.) I tried a lot of different "easy" mastering solutions in my life, but ended always at doing it myself by hand and by ear.
Cheers
iNever
There's a whole range of audio editing features they could add. My gut feeling is that they might add a whole audio editor at some point, that's only available to subscribers.
It might be a lot easier for them just to team up with, or buy out, an existing online audio editor from some company or other.
It would be great to get in-house mastering, pitch/tempo changes, proper fadeout etc.