SyncTrack: Rhythmic Stability and Synchronization in Multi-Track Music Generation

We introduce Qwen-Music, a music generation model that produces high-fidelity songs with complete vocals. It supports text-to-music generation from descriptions, lyrics, and musical attributes, and cover song generation with different styles and vocal characteristics. Qwen-Music comprises three components: Qwen-Music-Tokenizer, Qwen-Music-LLM, and Qwen-Music-Render. The tokenizer compresses audio into a 25 Hz single-codebook stream of Music Semantic Tokens that preserve semantic and melodic information. The LLM performs autoregressive modeling with a melody-token-based chain-of-thought (Melody-CoT) mechanism that plans melodies before full-song generation, improving musicality, structural coherence, and reference-melody preservation. The renderer enriches discrete semantic tokens with acoustic details to produce high-fidelity stereo waveforms. We train the LLM using a quality-aware pre-training curriculum followed by progressive post-training with supervised initialization, offline DPO, and online GSPO to improve musicality and instruction following. On 600 evaluation inputs, Qwen-Music achieves state-of-the-art results in 13 of 16 objective musicality and audio-quality metrics. Professional evaluators also prefer Qwen-Music over leading proprietary systems. For cover generation, Qwen-Music preserves reference melodies more accurately than Suno V5.5, Suno V5, and MiniMax Cover on the AI-generated reference set, and outperforms MiniMax Cover on most metrics on the real-world popular-song reference set.

In automatic music generation, a central challenge is to design controls that enable meaningful human-machine interaction. Existing systems often rely on extrinsic inputs such as text prompts or metadata, which do not allow humans to directly shape the composition. While prior work has explored intrinsic controls such as chords or hierarchical structure, these approaches mainly address piano or vocal-accompaniment settings, leaving multitrack symbolic music largely underexplored. We identify instrumentation, the choice of instruments and their roles, as a natural dimension of control in multi-track composition, and propose ViTex, a visual representation of instrumental texture. In ViTex, color encodes instrument choice, spatial position represents pitch and time, and stroke properties capture local textures. Building on this representation, we develop a discrete diffusion model conditioned on ViTex and chord progressions to generate 8-measure multi-track symbolic music, enabling explicit texture-level control while maintaining strong unconditional generation quality. The demo page and code are avaliable at https://vitex2025.github.io/.

Generating symphonic music requires simultaneously managing high-level structural form and dense, multi-track orchestration. Existing symbolic models often struggle with a "complexity-control imbalance", in which scaling bottlenecks limit long-term granular steerability. We present SymphonyGen, a 3D hierarchical framework for contemporary cinematic orchestration. SymphonyGen employs a cascading decoder architecture that decomposes the Bar, Track, and Event axes, improving computational efficiency and scalability over conventional 1D or 2D models. We introduce "short-score" conditioning via a beat-quantized multi-voice harmony skeleton, enabling outline control while preserving textural diversity. The model is further refined using Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) with a cross-modal audio-perceptual reward, aligning symbolic output with modern acoustic expectations. Additionally, we implement a dissonance-averse sampling algorithm to suppress unintended tonal clashes during inference. Objective evaluations show that both reinforcement learning and dissonance-averse sampling effectively enhance harmonic cleanliness while maintaining melodic expression. Subjective evaluations demonstrate that SymphonyGen outperforms baselines in musicality and preference for orchestral music generation. Demo page: https://symphonygen.github.io/