How to write a track brief the AI music generator follows

The brief is the 02 · Vibe box in the Club Ready Music studio. Write two to four short sentences that name the sound palette, the groove, the mood and the era, in plain words, with no artist or song names. Your text is placed straight into the style prompt after the genres and before the BPM, key and DJ arrangement lines, so every word you write is a word the model reads.

Steps

1. Pick genres before you write

Choose up to five genres under 03 · Genres. They go first in the style prompt and do most of the work of setting the style. The brief then only has to add what the genre name cannot say. If you skip genres entirely, the prompt opens with "Genre: choose the best fit for the description", and your brief carries the whole style on its own.

2. Name the palette in sound words

Open with the instruments and textures you want to hear. "Rolling sub bass, clipped rimshot groove, dusty Rhodes chords, one filtered vocal chop" tells the model more than "tech house vibes". Use three to five concrete sounds. The chips under Sounds to feature in the lyric writer add a separate "Feature prominently" line, so keep the brief for sounds that are not on that list.

3. Say the mood and the room

Add one sentence on energy and setting: "dark warehouse at 3 am, hypnotic and restrained" or "sunset terrace, warm and bouncy". Mood words shape chord choices, filter movement and how busy the drums are. Avoid stacking opposites like "euphoric but dark and chill", which the model will average into something flat.

4. Add the era and the production feel

If the era matters, say it with the sound, not the year alone: "late-90s French filter house, sidechained pads, vinyl crackle" or "modern, clean, wide stereo synths, tight low end". The prompt already ends with "club mix, clean stereo image, tight low end", so you only need to add what is different about yours.

5. Leave arrangement and numbers to the controls

Do not write "16-bar intro", "126 BPM" or "key of A minor" in the brief. The studio adds the BPM, the key name, the energy word, the intro and outro bars, the first-drop bar and the breakdown length to the prompt from the controls under 05 · Groove and 06 · DJ mix edit. Writing them twice wastes characters and can contradict the settings.

6. Read it back as one paragraph

The final prompt reads: genres, your brief, featured sounds, "126 BPM, key Am, peak-time, driving energy", the vocal direction, then the "Made for DJs" arrangement line. It is capped at 1,000 characters, and the arrangement line comes last, so a very long brief pushes the DJ instructions off the end. Keep the brief under about 400 characters and everything fits.

7. Generate two takes and compare

Press Generate. Each render gives two takes of the same brief. If both ignore the same detail, the wording is the problem; if only one does, it was the model's roll of the dice. Pick the better take and adjust the brief only for details both takes missed.

Tips

• Lead with the most important sound. Models weight early words more. Put the bassline or the hook element first.
• One idea per sentence. Short sentences separated by full stops parse better than a long comma list.
• Use common studio words. "Sidechain pump", "shuffled hats", "plucked arps", "stabs", "sub bass", "breakbeat" are all understood. Private slang is not.
• Describe vocals in Voice options, not the brief. Character, delivery, accent and amount of vocal have their own controls and are added to the prompt as a separate sentence.
• Say what to avoid, briefly. "No big-room supersaws, no risers" works when you have had a problem with them in a previous take.
• Save a brief that works. The studio keeps your draft in the browser, so you can reuse a good brief for the next track and change only the genre or key.

Common problems

The track sounds generic. The brief probably only used genre words. Replace adjectives like "banging" and "vibey" with named instruments and a specific groove. Three concrete sounds beat ten adjectives.

The model ignored the second half of the brief. The style prompt is cut at 1,000 characters. Shorten the brief, move the key instruction to the first sentence, and drop anything the controls already cover.

The arrangement is wrong even though the brief described it. Arrangement comes from the 06 · DJ mix edit controls, not the text. Set intro bars, drop bar and outro there, and remove arrangement talk from the brief so the two cannot disagree.

It sounds like a different genre. Check the first genre pick, because it leads the blend. Then look for words in the brief that pull another way, for example "trap hats" in a house brief. Remove them or move that genre into the blend on purpose.