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John,

My prompt was something like this: A slow, dreamy post-minimalist piece for piano, with an improvised feel using mostly broken minor chords, and thoughtful tempo ritardandos.

Even for someone like you who needs to absolutely NOT use AI in your recordings, what would be stopping you from prompting it to get piano pieces you could then play yourself?

The idea is, if nothing more, Udio can be something that can give you an idea that you would never have thought of on your own. You can't prompt for specific modern artists/composers, but what it does is it takes, say, "in the style of Max Richter" and rewrites that to something like "modern tonal post-minimalism with baroque note ornamentation" kinda thing.

You CAN prompt for older composers, as in this prompt: a piano piece that is a cross between Beethoven and Chopin, full of block chords but also right hand melodic runs, modulating between several related keys, with unexpected silences where one expects big downbeats" --another words, you can be really specific. Or even throw "word salad" at it and see what you get! The idea being that if you get something both surprising AND you like it, then what is to stop you from learning how to play it yourself? Then your publisher would be none the wiser. Using Udio as a compositional tool is probably what I will end up doing with it mostly, myself.

EDIT--it does the same thing with older composers, my bad. It will break "Beethoven" down into a written expression of his style though...I am quite surprised and assumed one could prompt for composers whose work is in the public domain, but no.