Instrumental tracks on Club Ready Music

Q: Does an instrumental cost less?

No. A generation is one credit whether or not it has vocals.

Q: Will there be any singing at all?

The model is told instrumental, no vocals, and the lyric sheet contains only structure tags. Stray vocal-like textures are rare but possible.

Question

Yes. Set the lyrics mode to Instrumental and the model renders the track with no vocals. Your BPM, key, length, energy, genres and the whole DJ arrangement still apply. One credit, same delivery.

What changes under the hood

Club Ready Music always sends the music model a lyric sheet, because that is the request type it uses. For an instrumental the sheet contains only structure, no words:

[Intro - drums only, 16 bars]
[Build]
[Drop]
[Breakdown, 16 bars]
[Drop]
[Outro - instrumental, 32 bars]
[Instrumental]

The bar numbers come from your DJ mix edit settings. The style prompt carries the sentence "Instrumental, no vocals" in place of the vocal direction, and no voice gender or cloned voice is sent.

What stays the same

Genres, vibe text and featured sounds steer the style exactly as they do with vocals.
BPM, Camelot key, length between 2:00 and 5:00, and energy are honoured.
Hard start, mono bass, loudness target and the WAV option all apply.
Cover art is still generated, from your title, genres and vibe, since there are no lyrics to draw on.
Cue points for intro end, first drop and outro start are written into the file.

What is skipped

The stem gate, which mutes vocals in the intro and outro, is unnecessary on an instrumental and is not run. That makes instrumental renders slightly quicker. Because there is no lyric timing from the model, there is no "vocal in" cue.

When to choose instrumental

You want a DJ tool, a loop-friendly groove or a bed for your own vocal.
You plan to add a voice drop or a sung hook later.
You are making background music for video or a venue where lyrics would distract.
You want to hear what the model does with the arrangement before committing to lyrics.

Instrumental versus hook-only

If you want almost no vocal rather than none, keep a lyrics mode with words and set How much vocal to Hook only or Sparse chops in the Voice options. The model then writes long instrumental stretches with vocals only on the hook, and the stem gate still protects the edges.

Tips for better instrumentals

Describe instruments and movement in the vibe, since there are no lyrics to carry a story: "rolling bassline, filtered stabs, long riser into the drop, breakdown on pads". Use the featured sounds in the writing dialog, which are passed into the music prompt even when no lyrics are written. Pick a lead genre first; it has the most influence on the sound.