· By The Vocal Market
TL;DR AI vocals have three tells: digital wobble on sustained notes, stiff breath-free phrasing, and metallic sibilance. Fix them with Melodyne pitch drift cleanup, a layered real breath track, and aggressive de-essing. Then stack one real vocal layer underneath if you can. That single real layer changes everything. Suno v5 and Udio sound better than ever. They still have tells. If you listen to 50 AI-generated songs in a row, you start hearing the same artifacts: an odd plastic-y quality on long notes, phrases that land a hair too perfectly, sibilance that sounds slightly metallic. This guide walks through exactly...
· By The Vocal Market
TL;DR Suno v5 wins on ease and speed. Udio wins on sound quality when it works, but legal status remains unsettled after the RIAA lawsuit. Real vocalist acapellas still win on licensing certainty, stem quality, and commercial release safety. Use AI for demos and sketches, real vocals for anything you plan to ship. The AI vocal tools in 2026 are genuinely useful. They're also genuinely limited in ways the marketing doesn't advertise. This is a practical breakdown, not a hype piece, for producers trying to figure out what to actually use in a session. We run a vocal marketplace, so...
· By Bas Lefeber
AI can now generate a vocal that sounds almost human. Tools like Suno, Udio, and various voice cloning platforms produce singing vocals from a text prompt. Type a few words, pick a style, and you get a vocal track in seconds. So why are producers still buying human vocals? Because "almost human" isn't the same as human. And in commercial music production, the gap between "good enough" and "release-ready" is where careers and royalties live. Here's an honest comparison of where things stand in 2026. What AI Vocals Can Do in 2026 Let's give credit where it's due. AI vocal...