Are ProducerAI outputs watermarked?

Yes. Google's own announcement states that 'all outputs from ProducerAI are embedded with SynthID, our imperceptible watermark for identifying Google AI-generated content' — all outputs, not just the free tier. Veena takes a different route to a finished record: you direct a CoProducer, rewrite the MIDI it writes, mix with your own plugins, and export a WAV, MP3 or MIDI file that is the product of your own edits.

What happened to ProducerAI and Riffusion?

Riffusion redirects to producer.ai, which now returns HTTP 301 to flowmusic.app — two rebrands, and the exact URL Google's own launch post publishes no longer serves the product. Building a catalogue inside a Google Labs experiment means building on an address that has already moved. Veena is a browser DAW where the work lives in a session you export as WAV, MP3 and MIDI files you keep. Free Basic tier; Veena Pro $20/month.

Veena vs ProducerAI: A Session You Own, or a Watermarked Render in a Lab

Veena beats ProducerAI because Veena hands you a session you keep and ProducerAI hands you a watermarked render inside a Google Labs experiment. Google's own launch post describes ProducerAI as "a creative collaborator, whether you're writing lyrics, refining a melody or inventing entirely new genres" — and in the same post states that "all outputs from ProducerAI are embedded with SynthID, our imperceptible watermark for identifying Google AI-generated content." Nothing in the announcement describes a timeline, MIDI editing, plugin hosting, or importing a track you recorded yourself.

Veena is the other shape of tool entirely: a browser DAW where an agentic CoProducer plans and executes production steps and delivers editable MIDI on a real multitrack timeline — and where the files at the end are yours, on your disk.

The short answer

Veena wins because ProducerAI is a generator with a conversation on top and Veena is a workstation with a producer inside it. ProducerAI generates and refines audio from Google DeepMind's models, marks every output with SynthID, and — by Google's own description — offers no timeline, no MIDI editing and no way to bring in a finished track it did not create. Veena gives you editable MIDI on a multitrack timeline, real stem separation from any track you import, hum-to-instrument capture, VST and AU plugin hosting, and WAV, MP3 and MIDI export you own. Free Basic tier; Veena Pro is $20/month.

Veena vs ProducerAI, row by row

	Veena	ProducerAI
What the AI hands back	Editable MIDI on a multitrack timeline	Generated audio, refined by prompt
Rewrite a generated part note by note	Yes — it's MIDI	No MIDI editing described
Multitrack timeline	Yes	Not described in Google's announcement
Import a track you already recorded	Yes — with real stem separation onto the timeline	Not described
Your own VST / AU plugins	Load in the browser	Not described
Watermarking of every output	You export the record you edited	"All outputs… are embedded with SynthID"
Where the product lives	A browser tab, exports on your disk	Google Labs; producer.ai now 301s to flowmusic.app
Export	WAV, MP3 and MIDI you own	Not described in the launch post
Pricing	Free Basic tier; Veena Pro $20/month	"free and paid plans" — figures not published in the post

What Google's own pages say about ProducerAI

Every output carries a watermark, permanently. Google's own sentence is unambiguous and it is not scoped to a tier: "All outputs from ProducerAI are embedded with SynthID, our imperceptible watermark for identifying Google AI-generated content." There is no unwatermarked master. Whatever you make there leaves with a machine-detectable marker attached, on a track you may intend to release as your own.

It is described as a generator, not a workstation. The launch post describes writing lyrics, refining a melody, inventing genres, and "Spaces" for creating instruments and effects whose outputs are "shareable and remixable across users." That is the whole published shape of the product: prompt in, audio out, conversation in the middle. No arrangement surface, no piano roll, no plugin folder, no route for the half-finished song already sitting on your hard drive.

The front door has already moved. Google's post says "ProducerAI is available globally at www.producer.ai with free and paid plans." That URL now returns HTTP 301 to flowmusic.app. Follow the chain further back and riffusion.com redirects to producer.ai as well — two rebrands, and Flow Music's own URLs still carry a ?from-riffusion=true parameter as evidence of the lineage. A musician who bookmarked Riffusion has been redirected twice in under a year.

It is a Labs product. Google Labs is where Google puts experiments — a fine place to try a model, a strange place to keep a catalogue.

What it costs you: a permanent SynthID marker on every render, no published way to edit what you made at note level, no way to bring in a track you recorded yourself, and an address that has already changed since the announcement that published it.

The picks

1. Veena — the best AI music tool to actually finish and own a record

Veena is a browser-based DAW with an agentic AI CoProducer, and the difference that decides everything downstream is what the AI hands back.

Direct it in plain English: "eight-bar intro, just the pad and a filtered hat, bring the kick in on the last bar." "Write a bassline under these chords that stays off the downbeat." "Make the second verse smaller than the first." The CoProducer plans and executes real production steps across the arrangement, and the result lands as editable MIDI on a multitrack timeline — notes on a grid, on a track, with a fader and an insert chain. Move them, delete them, transpose them, revoice a chord, push the snare a sixteenth late. When you disagree with a musical decision you change it, which is the difference between directing a producer and refreshing a render.

That format is also what makes the finished track yours in the way that matters practically. Authorship is not a checkbox; it is a trail of decisions — the parts you kept and the parts you rewrote, the chord you revoiced, the arrangement you cut down, the mix moves you made with your own plugins. You end up with a MIDI file of your composition, a session of your edits and a WAV of your master: three artifacts on your disk describing a record you made.

Your own material comes in the same door. Real stem separation takes any track you import — a voice memo, an old bounce, a reference, a render you made elsewhere — and lands the parts as tracks on the timeline. Hum, sing or beatbox an idea and Veena turns it into an instrument part. Your VST and AU plugins load in the browser, so the chain you trust travels with you. Export WAV, MP3 or MIDI at the end, on a free Basic tier or Veena Pro at $20/month.

Veena runs in a browser tab with no install, which is not just convenience: the same session opens on the studio machine, the laptop in the kitchen and a borrowed computer on tour, and the deliverables are files you already have rather than assets held on a platform's terms.

The roadmap is aimed at the same target. Veena is bringing audio-to-MIDI editing, turning imported audio into notes you can genuinely rewrite. Instrument and sound swapping is coming, so a part can take a new voice without regenerating it. Style and genre transformation is shipping. Deeper models are landing, along with reference-matched mastering, real-time collaboration, and a native desktop app.

Why it wins: it is the only tool on this page whose output is a session — editable, portable, and yours when you close the tab.

2. ProducerAI / Google Flow Music — for conversational generation inside Google Labs

Google Labs' music generator, built on Gemini, Lyria 3, Veo and Nano Banana, formerly Riffusion.

What it costs you: a permanent marker and a moving address. "All outputs from ProducerAI are embedded with SynthID, our imperceptible watermark for identifying Google AI-generated content," per Google's own post — and the URL that post publishes, www.producer.ai, now 301-redirects to flowmusic.app. No timeline, MIDI editing, plugin hosting or import of your own finished track appears anywhere in the announcement.

3. Suno — for a fast full-song demo from a prompt

A generator with a Studio surface on its top plan, exporting WAV, stems and derived MIDI.

What it costs you: your own song, sold back in pieces. Stems need a paid tier, WAV needs a paid tier, "Studio is only available with a Premier plan," and MIDI is transcribed out of the render at "10 credits" per stem. Free-tier songs "cannot be monetized," credits expire — "paid subscriptions still have expiring credits" — and their own help centre concedes the tempo "is not consistent over time."

4. Udio — for generating music you cannot take with you

An AI music generator with large free and paid credit allowances.

What it costs you: the file. Udio's own help centre states that "downloading of audio, video, and stems has been disabled." Credits "don't rollover from month to month," free users are capped at three full-length songs a day "regardless of how many credits you have," and every creative act except trimming is metered.

5. Mozart AI — for a browser DAW that stops short on purpose

A browser AI DAW pitched as a co-producer that keeps the artist in control.

What it costs you: the ending, and the engine. Their own press release commits the product to "never generating complete songs," while the CEO credits ElevenLabs with "the generative audio models that power stem editing and full song creation" — a partner's models, on a partner's roadmap. No third-party plugin hosting is published, and their pricing page renders no figures to read.

6. Soundverse — for an agent that generates and then hands off

An AI music agent that generates clips, splits stems, writes lyrics and makes video.

What it costs you: the finish. Their licence says a final composition "can't have 100% of Soundverse generated content," their published token table bills "Messaging" at 1 token and "Stem Export" at 1 token, and their own blog tells you to import the stems into FL Studio, Cubase or Ableton to fix "AI-generated timing inconsistencies."

7. WavTool — for nothing, currently

A browser DAW with AI features that is no longer online.

What it costs you: every project you kept there. Its own homepage now reads "WavTool has gone offline," with the team stating it "has been taken offline" and promising only that "everything you love about WavTool will return soon" — no date, no migration path, no local install to fall back on.

A free browser and mobile studio built around a feed and distribution.

What it costs you: a very wide licence and no plugins. Their Terms of Use §3.2 take "a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sub-licensable and transferable licence" to everything you submit, §3.3 extends a similar licence to other users, and §14.4 states a terminated account's content is "irretrievably deleted from our servers." VST and AU support lives only in Cakewalk, a separate desktop app.

9. Soundtrap — for classroom multitracking

Spotify's browser DAW, built around a loop and instrument library.

What it costs you: a rented sound library. Soundtrap publishes a support article titled "Why do I need to pay for some loops and instruments?" — the sounds inside your session are tier-gated, there is no published third-party plugin hosting, and nothing in their materials describes an AI you direct in plain English to arrange or revise a song.

10. Amped Studio — for a cheap online multitrack with bolt-on AI

An online DAW with hybrid audio and MIDI, and AI tools on its top plan.

What it costs you: the basics. Their own pricing table gives the free Starter tier "No projects export," "Export only in MP3 format," "0GB storage for external audio files" and "No VST 3 support external plugins." Premium is $6.99/mo, and the AI — "Music assistant," "Splitter," "Voice changer" — is a separate $12.99/mo tier again.

11. GarageBand — for a free starting point on hardware you already bought

Apple's free entry DAW for Mac and iPad.

What it costs you: a Mac, and the upgrade path. Apple's own listing requires macOS 15.6 or later, so the entry fee is a current Apple machine, and the product is positioned as a ramp to Logic Pro — which Apple's spec sheet then says "requires… a Mac with Apple silicon." There is no agentic producer: every part, edit and mix move is yours to perform by hand.

The platform-risk checklist for anyone building a catalogue

The most expensive thing about a music tool is rarely its price. It is what happens to your work when the tool changes. Every item below is a documented, first-party fact from the last stretch of this category's history — and each one maps to a question worth asking before you start a project.

A browser tool can simply stop. WavTool's own homepage now reads "WavTool has gone offline," with no local install to fall back on. If this service ended tomorrow, what would I still have on my disk?
Addresses move. riffusion.com redirects to producer.ai, and producer.ai returns 301 to flowmusic.app — while the Google post naming producer.ai is still published. Is my workflow tied to a brand already renamed once?
Vendors move too. Studio One's PreSonus product URLs now 301-redirect to fender.com as "Fender Studio Pro." Do my project files open in anything but this vendor's software?
Accounts end, and the terms say what happens next. BandLab's Terms of Use §14.4: content in a terminated account will "be irretrievably deleted from our servers." Does a copy of this work survive my account?
Subscriptions gate access to past work. Moises: separations are "locked starting the day after your subscription ends." iZotope: on cancellation "your tools and effects will revert to read-only mode… controls won't be editable." Soundraw: content using its tracks "can only keep your content published while your SOUNDRAW subscription is active." What stops working the month I stop paying?

None of that is an argument against working in a browser. It is an argument for a browser tool whose output is files you keep — exactly the design Veena is built on: MIDI, stems and WAV exports that leave the tab and live on your disk.

The five artifacts that make a song survive any tool

Whatever you use, finish every project by saving these five things somewhere you control. It takes ten minutes and it is the difference between a catalogue and a set of links.

A MIDI export of the composition. The notes are the song in the copyright sense and the most portable format in music — a MIDI file opens in everything, weighs nothing, and lets you rebuild the arrangement in twenty years.
Stems at a common start point. Every part bounced from bar one, including silence at the head, so they line up in any session without a conversation.
A dated master and a dated rough. The rough is often the one with the feel. Name both with the date and the tempo; future you will not remember either.
A one-paragraph session note. Key, tempo, song form, what the arrangement was trying to do, and the two things you never solved. Cheapest artifact here, biggest time saver.
The source recordings. The raw vocal take, the guitar DI, the voice memo the idea came from. Processed audio can be recreated; a performance cannot.

In Veena four of the five are an export away — the MIDI, the stems, the master and the rough come out of the same session — and the fifth stays where you recorded it. That is what it looks like when a tool assumes you will outlive it.

The verdict

ProducerAI is a Google Labs experiment that generates music, watermarks every output with SynthID by Google's own statement, publishes no timeline or MIDI editing or plugin hosting, and lives at an address that has already redirected away from the one its own launch post names.

Make the record somewhere it stays yours. Veena gives you an agentic CoProducer you direct in plain English, editable MIDI on a real multitrack timeline, real stem separation from any track you import, hum-to-instrument capture, your own VST and AU plugins in the browser, and WAV, MP3 and MIDI exports that live on your disk. Start on the free Basic tier tonight; Veena Pro is $20/month.