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YuE2: Unifying Symbolic and Audio Music Generation at Frontier Quality

Compose in symbols. Create in sound.


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  All languages · September 14, 2026



  
    
  
  
    
  
  
  Global: September 17, 2026 · Text-to-Audio: September 20, 2026


YuE2 brings frontier song quality to music generation with an editable composition. Give it lyrics and a style prompt: it writes a melody-and-chord plan, then realizes that plan as a complete song with vocals and accompaniment.



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- Frontier quality. YuE2 is competitive with Suno v5/v6 on WildSongBench. YuE2 (best-of-8) achieves 6.9632 SongBench Avg, the highest observed mean among all evaluated settings.
- White-box music generation through symbolic planning. Read, play, and change the composition before rendering it. Melody and chords become explicit controls that a person or an agent can inspect and edit.
- Zero-shot covers and agentic editing. Reimagine a transcribed song in a new style, or refine a song through a conversation about its score, arrangement, and lyrics—all with the same generation checkpoint.



192 WildSongBench prompts. Both YuE2 settings use symbolic planning. Bo8 = best-of-8. The axes are normalized comparison indices; bubble area represents AudioBox production quality. Scores and evaluation protocol. Vector PDF · SVG.

 News

- 📄 October 6, 2026 — SheetSage2 on arXiv. Read the paper and use the BibTeX citation.

- 📄 October 2, 2026 — SheetSage2 technical report. The SheetSage2 report describes the transcription model used for covers and score editing: MIDI-derived synthetic supervision, structured decoding, and autoregressive distillation, with evaluations on eight benchmark collections.

- 📄 September 29, 2026 — YuE2 on arXiv. Read the paper and use the BibTeX citation.

- 📄 September 26, 2026 — YuE2 technical report. Our technical report is now available, with the full model and training methods, automatic and expert listening results, and evaluations of score editing and zero-shot covers.
- 🎹 September 25, 2026 — Instrumental generation and covers. The yue2-music agent skill now turns a simple description, ABC score, or reference recording into instrumental music. YuE2 writes the score by default; the skill moves the vocal melody into the instrumental part before rendering. Recommended agent: GPT-6 Astra. Download the updated skill →
- 🚀 Try YuE2 online for free. Create a song in your browser