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Music Cover
Music Cover takes an existing song and reimagines it in a different style — changing voice, instrumentation, genre, and arrangement while preserving the original melody intact.
Give it a song URL and a style description, and it generates a full cover version.
How it works
Music Cover analyzes the input song to extract its melodic structure, then regenerates the track in the style you describe. The melody stays the same, but everything else can change:
- Voice / timbre — different vocal character and delivery
- Instrumentation — swap out the backing instruments entirely
- Genre — transform a pop song into jazz, rock into bossa nova, etc.
- Arrangement — new mixing, production style, and sonic character
Inputs
audio_url (required) — URL of the song to cover. Must be a publicly accessible audio file (MP3, WAV). The file should contain music with vocals.
prompt (required) — A description of the target style for the cover. For example: R&B version, smooth vocal, groovy bass. Up to 2,000 characters.
sample_rate — Audio sample rate. Options: 16000, 24000, 32000, 44100 (default).
bitrate — Audio bitrate. Options: 32000, 64000, 128000, 256000 (default).
audio_format — Output format: mp3 (default), wav, or pcm.
Examples
Pop to jazz
{
"audio_url": "https://example.com/pop-song.mp3",
"prompt": "Jazz arrangement, saxophone lead, smooth female vocal, mellow piano chords"
}
Acoustic folk version
{
"audio_url": "https://example.com/original.mp3",
"prompt": "Acoustic folk, fingerpicked guitar, warm male vocal, intimate studio feel"
}
Electronic remix
{
"audio_url": "https://example.com/ballad.mp3",
"prompt": "EDM remix, 128 BPM, synth bass, atmospheric pads, driving beat"
}
Lo-fi version
{
"audio_url": "https://example.com/track.mp3",
"prompt": "Lo-fi hip hop version, vinyl crackle, chill beat, warm midrange"
}
Prompt tips
- Name the target genre — “jazz,” “rock,” “bossa nova,” “EDM” etc. give the strongest style shifts.
- Describe the vocal style — “smooth female vocal,” “raw male voice,” “breathy delivery” shape how the voice changes.
- Specify instruments — “saxophone lead,” “acoustic guitar,” “808 bassline” steer the arrangement.
- Add production qualities — “warm reverb,” “vinyl texture,” “crisp modern production” shape the mix.
Good to know
- The output preserves the original song’s melody and duration.
- Works best with songs that have clear vocals and melody.
- The cover generation takes a few minutes depending on the song length.
- For more control over the lyrics in the cover, use the MiniMax Music Cover API directly with the two-step flow (preprocess → edit lyrics → generate).
Also check out minimax/music-2.6 for generating original songs from scratch.
Privacy policy
Data from this model is sent from Replicate to MiniMax.
Check their privacy policy for details:
https://www.minimax.io/platform/protocol/privacy-policy