See placement, stress, rhyme families and fit warnings together. Edit Better lyrics alternatives, then compare the original and alternative over the same beat before keeping one.
DOCUMENTATION · COMPLETE USER GUIDE
From first idea
to finished export.
This is the operating manual for SongIntent: every workflow, workspace, writing tool, audio control, review step, button family, export, and privacy action. Nothing enters the lyric until you choose it Manual writing remains available after AI limits Projects are private by default
WHAT’S NEW
Build a punchline without leaving your song.
In Writer’s Room, choose Build a punchline to turn a thought into a chosen ending and a connected two- or four-bar proposal. Start with text alone, keep your own ending, and approve the passage before it becomes part of the song.
See the prepared teaching example or open Punchline Builder. It uses the existing project, writing assists and rehearsal tools. Quick Create, Guided Rap Build and the other genre workflows remain available.
New public examples let you compare a crowded line, a forced rhyme and a general hook before working on your own song. Hear the three writing decisions; the original exercises use clearly labeled synthetic read-throughs.
Feedback beside your words, A/B rehearsal, saved proposals and project recovery support the same writing loop.
Earlier co-writing options stay available as you request more. Safe placement protects other bars; saved versions, proposal review and backup downloads help recover work.
Locked tools explain their benefit before checkout. Production choices survive an upgrade, and My Songs gives clearer render, stem and retry guidance.
Replay the updated tour
In Studio, open Help and choose the guided tour. Use Jump to a topic for feedback, A/B rehearsal, recovery or plan access. The interactive Canvas demo remains a separate practice song; its final lesson explains how to continue in your own project.
PUNCHLINE BUILDER · WRITER’S ROOM
Say the thought. Choose the ending. Earn it.
Open Build a punchline in Writer’s Room. This is a short path through the existing writing tools, with the current project and selected passage as its destination. You can begin with no lyrics, select material already in your song, or bring an ending you want to keep.
Say what you mean
Check the displayed target passage and explain its message. Existing intent, mood and voice preferences carry into the request. Add a mood or one personal detail only if useful. A beat, upload and microphone are optional.
Pick the ending
Review up to three payoff angles. Edit the wording, retry, use your own ending, or continue to drafting. The collapsed explanation describes the proposed device; it does not certify that the line is clever or original.
Build around it
Use Keep this ending to protect the payoff. Four bars is the default; choose two for a shorter passage. Check the setup and development together: each line should help the point land. Neighboring bars provide context and stay outside the proposed change.
Try or refine the passage
Read aloud, or use the project’s existing A/B rehearsal and beat transport. Try Make it clearer, Less obvious, Stronger setup, More personal or Easier to rap. Keep a protected ending when it is the part you want to preserve. Review the difference before deciding.
Keep the version that works
Choose Keep these bars to accept into the shown target. Earlier proposals remain available to review. Save for later keeps an option without inserting it. Check the project’s save status before navigating away; accepted words stay in the existing song, Canvas and export workflow.
Your words stay yours
Opening the helper or rejecting a proposal leaves the draft alone. A newer edit, changed selection or conflicting lock requires a fresh review. Undo must not erase work you made after accepting.
Text first, sound when useful
You can complete the passage without audio. Beat rehearsal is for your own delivery. Written placement is estimated; recognition from a recording is also an estimate. Your actual take is separate performance evidence.
The same writing allowance
One writing attempt uses 1 existing assist: explore up to three endings, build one two- or four-bar passage, and make one targeted repair. You can start with your own ending instead. Included steps remain available at zero remaining assists for the same idea and unchanged source passage. Extra ending sets, draft versions or repairs cost 1 assist each, shown before requesting them. Failed delivery returns that step’s charge or included slot. Manual editing, reviewing proposals, rehearsal, saving and acceptance are unmetered. This text workflow uses no Song Renders or Reference DNA audio minutes.
If the suggestion misses
Keep the useful part and name one problem. A weak pun may need a different angle, a sound-alike phrase needs a pronunciation check, and an unfamiliar name may need to be removed. If your exact ending cannot fit the requested timing or other locks, choose which constraint to change; the helper should not decide that for you. Use personal details you are comfortable sharing, and correct any assumption that does not fit your story.
Returning to your work: save before leaving and use the project’s existing recovery controls if a save is interrupted. Sign-in and upgrade return to the current workflow. If the song changed while a request was running, the old proposal stays reviewable but cannot silently replace the newer passage.
For a longer process, continue with Guided Rap Build. For sound choices, use Phrase Bank and Instant Word Lab. An already-authorized Reference DNA finding can inform your project without requiring another audio analysis.
WRITE & PERFORM
Improve one phrase without losing the song.
Open Writer’s Room and use Write & Perform. Pick a section and a phrase, play its beat passage, and decide what needs to change. You can keep writing manually without requesting AI help.
Read the feedback beside the lyric
Open the selected phrase’s word feedback. Review syllables, dictionary stress, attached rhyme families and fit warnings. Select a word to Find rhymes or Save phrase. Unknown pronunciation and text placement remain estimates.
Set the passage you want to hear
Check BPM and the phrase entry and end. Default plans follow section order; explicit phrase cues and saved section audio mappings take priority. Loop the passage and speak or sing the line before deciding it is too crowded.
Give Better lyrics a useful direction
Add one concrete detail, an emotional change and any exact phrase to keep. Review your Voice DNA. Request alternatives, then edit them directly; syllable, keeper and avoid-list checks update with your edits.
Compare A and B before accepting
Select Try over this beat. Switch A · Original and B · Alternative, performing each over the same passage. Keep alternative saves the choice; Return to draft keeps the original. This rehearsal plays the beat, not a generated vocal.
Check your actual delivery
In Delivery, confirm recording permission and record a sketch, then use Record words for a read-back. Use headphones. Listen to the recorded phrase and tap recognized words when timings are available. Changing the lyrics, timing range, beat or tempo makes the old comparison stale; record again.
| What you see | What it can tell you |
|---|---|
| Estimated text timing | A writing plan across the phrase range, including syllables and dictionary stress. It has not measured how you performed the line. |
| Recorded performance evidence | Analysis of captured audio. Recognized word boundaries are speech-recognition estimates; listen to confirm placement and emphasis. |
| Timed lyric exports | LRC, SRT and DAW markers use estimated placement. Check them against the final performance before sharing or production. |
Keep control of revisions. Undo last accepted revision will not overwrite later edits. Contextual suggestions stay tied to their original passage; changed source lyrics require a fresh comparison. Insert after needs an empty next rap bar. Give me six more keeps earlier options and edits, up to 24 in that selection session—save favorites to the Vault for future sessions.
CHOOSE WHEN YOU NEED MORE
Try the workflow. Upgrade for your next step.
Free lets you write, try AI assistance and hear a monthly song demo. When you select a paid tool, its preview explains what it adds to your current task without spending an assist or changing your lyric.
Creator is $8/month for 200 AI assists, 10 Song Renders, unlimited projects, saved ideas and versions. Pro is $24/month for 700 assists, 30 renders, advanced cadence, full Reference DNA and included monthly stem separations. Check the current plan comparison for complete allowances and any offer you qualify for.
Choose a plan first, then review its exact initial charge and monthly renewal. Checkout requires your agreement; selecting a plan or opening a preview does not charge you. Existing subscribers manage their subscription in the billing portal. A plan choice or signup email’s plan intent does not confirm payment; successful payment and account activation are separate steps.
Your current project is saved before leaving Studio for an upgrade. If the Free project limit prevents saving a second song, plan review opens in a new tab so that draft stays open. After payment confirmation, return to your saved project—or to the original tab for an unsaved draft at the project limit. Keep that original tab open until you can save the draft. Hear Your Song remembers production choices, but you must review and approve them again before generating. Long-lyric fit is reviewed again against the current lyric.
HEAR YOUR SONG · V1
You wrote it. Now hear it.
Hear Your Song is the final stage of a SongIntent lyric project—not a standalone paste-and-generate tool. Finish and save the lyric version, review the title, genre and BPM, then explicitly mark it ready. SongIntent keeps production direction out of sung lyrics, selects one result, and saves it automatically to My Songs.
Free: 1. Creator: 10. Pro: 30. One Song Render means one selected finished song.
Allowance is consumed only after valid audio is saved, verified and delivered.
Lyrics above 5,000 characters are never silently cut; review is required before a fit or multi-stage path.
BPM is included naturally with genre, energy, vocals, cadence and hook direction.
Play, download, favorite, archive, reopen the project, revise, and hear the new version.
Choose the exact failure you heard: rushed words, weak hook lift, forced rhyme, flat emotion, similar sections or changed phrasing. SongIntent opens the matching repair tool and preserves the source render and approved lyric snapshot.
Editing a targeted repair does not use a Song Render. A corrected generation uses allowance only after successful delivery.
Open a delivered song in My Songs, then request basic or full separation. Progress refreshes automatically. Failed requests offer Retry, and the two stem sets keep separate downloads.
SUBSCRIPTION CONTROL
Stop renewal without losing the time you paid for.
In Studio, open Manage billing, select Cancel renewal, then confirm. Every feedback question is optional. You can cancel without choosing a reason or accepting an alternative.
If you share a reason, you may see a guide for the affected workflow or, for eligible Pro subscriptions, a review of the existing $8/month Creator plan. Opening help doesn’t change billing. A cheaper-plan review opens Stripe and requires your approval before any plan change.
The result states either that renewal is stopped or that a request is recorded and still needs processing. A recorded request alone does not confirm cancellation. If Stripe cannot process the change, SongIntent saves the request and alerts the owner; you can also complete cancellation in secure Stripe billing.
When cancellation is confirmed, the dialog and confirmation email show the end of paid access. Cancellation does not delete your account or saved work. Free-plan limits apply when paid access ends. Stripe opens in a separate tab so your writing stays open. Its email verification may use the payer email from checkout, which can differ from your SongIntent login.
You can add optional feedback after renewal is stopped. Feedback is private operational research for improving SongIntent; it does not enroll you in marketing. Changing your mind about renewal requires an explicit action in Stripe.
STUDY A REFERENCE, THEN WRITE
Reference DNA: choose the depth you need.
The Reference DNA page includes an account-free audio sample, a real-upload workflow and a direct comparison of Free, Creator and Pro. Explore the prepared sample first, or sign in before choosing audio you own or have permission to process.
Free and Creator each include one real analysis of up to 30 seconds per month. Pro includes 30 analyzed audio minutes per month, up to 6 minutes per file, full-song maps, editable corrections, the DNA Mixer, reusable profiles and all five DNA Lab tools. Repeating an analysis uses allowance again; the public sample does not.
Use the findings to choose a writing experiment: leave room before a stressed word, create more contrast for a hook or change the density of a verse. Confidence scores are estimates; check them against playback. With Pro, save a profile and open DNA Lab for comparison, flow transfer, melody-to-lyric fit, section repair or reference blending.
Choose Pro on the page to continue through verified sign-in and plan review. An account is free until you complete paid checkout. Existing subscribers are directed to billing management to review a change rather than start a duplicate subscription.
01 · START HERE
Begin with what you already have.
Start with an idea, lyric, flow, beat or reference. Shape the cadence, rhyme, structure and hook; hear the result; then fix what is not landing—without surrendering your voice. I have an idea opens Quick Create and its Song Brief. I have lyrics opens Writer’s Room. I have a flow or beat opens Cadence Capture. I have a reference opens Reference DNA. Guided Rap Build remains an optional step-by-step path.
Describe the message, emotional turn, title and details in the Song Brief, then review a complete proposal.
Paste or write your lyric, select only what needs work and compare focused alternatives.
Record or upload the pocket first, then fit editable lyrics to timing, stress, rests and movement.
Reveal high-level architecture and performance behavior, then use the blueprint without copying the source song.
Choose the input—not the most impressive tool.
The shortest path is the one that starts from the strongest material you already possess.
02 · GUIDED RAP BUILD
Build it with SongIntent, step by step.
Guided Rap Build is the optional path for a conversational, clever, rhyme-aware rap. It keeps the craft process underneath the surface, so you can focus on one clear decision at a time. Your words stay editable, and nothing becomes part of the song until you approve it.
Define the message
Answer the four-question Rap Brief: What are you really trying to say? What happened that proves it? What attitude should the rapper have? What should the listener remember?
Plan the journey
Turn the message into an idea path, such as doubt → pressure → work → risk → proof → recognition. Each block must move the thought forward.
Choose concept worlds
Pick a connected field—cards, boxing, weather, business, or something from your own life—and keep only images that make the original idea clearer.
Build the sound
Create a useful Phrase Bank with words, phrase rhymes, slant rhymes, multisyllabic matches, and internal-rhyme options. Group choices by family and placement; meaning still comes before a clever sound.
Find the pocket
Use a beat, a performance sketch, or a suggested rhythm. You can skip audio and keep writing; the pocket is a guide, not a lock.
Build the verse
SongIntent freezes the meaning, bar jobs, and concept progression before it proposes wording. Review options, deterministic craft checks, and an independent comparison before choosing a take.
Perform and revise
Read it aloud, inspect Rhyme Map, and make targeted changes for clarity, timing, and payoff. SongIntent coaches the next move; it never silently replaces your writing.
Start Guided Rap Build
Open at stage one and move forward only when the current idea feels right.
Build it step by stepQuick, focused, or guided
Choose Quick Create for speed, Writer’s Room for line-level co-writing, or Guided Rap Build when you want a repeatable rap craft process.
Compare the Studio pathsKeep the human decision. Guided Rap Build can propose angles, sound families, and bar roles, but you decide what is true, what sounds like you, and what earns a place in the song.
02 · QUICK CREATE
Create a complete song from start to finish.
For rap, the idea-chain, punchline-pacing, conversational-flow and concept-exhaustion review runs automatically beneath this simple path. You do not have to open Deep Craft first.
Choose Quick Create
Select Quick Create on the Studio start page.
Write the meaning lock
Describe the claim, feeling, event, lesson, and non-negotiable details. Do not fill this field with rhyme instructions.
Add the destination
Enter the title, chorus phrase, final line, or payoff the song should earn.
Choose Genre DNA
Pick Rap, Pop, R&B, or Country. Genre changes architecture and performance assumptions, not merely style.
Generate the complete song
Select Generate Complete Song. Review the named sections and craft notes.
Review before accepting
Keep the current draft, Harvest keepers, accept the proposal, or open one section in Writer’s Room. Nothing is accepted automatically.
Shape section by section
Select weak text and request one specific move instead of repeatedly regenerating the entire song.
Audit and perform
Open Rhyme Map, listen against the beat, use read-back when pocket matters, then export.
03 · GENRE DNA ENGINE
Genre changes the writing process—not just the adjective in a prompt.
Each profile controls its voice starting point, three structural choices, melodic and rhythmic phrasing, rhyme density and evolution, and a live quality audit. Your customized Voice DNA overrides genre defaults.
Bar and sound-family architecture; cross-bar syntax; internal, slant, multisyllabic and phrase rhyme; pocket transformation; anti-uniformity checks.
Verse-to-chorus lift; shorter repeatable hooks; open-vowel singability; section contrast; bridge reframe.
Confessional specificity; elastic pocket; held-vowel and ad-lib space; refrain depth; assonant sonic color.
Concrete scenes; causal story progression; believable plain speech; natural rhyme; an earned title turn.
Denser evolving rap verses plus a simpler sung center, connected through shared phrase, vowel, image and perspective.
Checks visible structural signals and returns revision targets. It cannot decide whether a song is emotionally powerful or commercially viable.
Switching safely: SongIntent does not rewrite existing lyrics. If Voice DNA still matches the old genre default, the new default is applied; if you customized it, your settings are preserved. Uploaded beats are also preserved.
03 · WRITER’S ROOM
Co-write without surrendering the song.
Selection defines scope. Highlight a phrase to change a phrase, a line to change a line, or a passage only when its logic must move together.
Type directly in the bar or section canvas. Written syllables are a guardrail, not a performance verdict.
Drag across the exact text needing help; surrounding song context stays available.
Strengthen the thought, find the next angle, build a connected punchline run or leave a concept before it becomes repetitive.
For line-level moves, review Best Fit, Meaning, Rhyme, Flow Switch, Punchline/Payoff, and Unexpected.
Replace, use, continue after, insert elsewhere, or save. Nothing inserts itself.
Vault can retain concept fields, semantic bridges, references and punchline chains—not only individual lines.
Six options are not six truths. If the meaning becomes vaguer, the rhyme is not an improvement.
RHYME CANVAS
Hear the moment. Place the sound. Keep the meaning.
Use Canvas when you want to hear a line’s timing, plan its important sounds and revise the delivery. Start with one section and one clear idea. You can move freely between Paint, Write and Perform.
The demo includes an original 96 BPM groove, three verse lines, an unfinished fourth bar and a separate Chorus. No sign-in is needed. Your practice edits stay in this browser and never overwrite a song.
Your first useful session
Choose one thought and one section
Open Verse 1 and decide what changes in these four bars. In the demo, a small light becomes a reason to keep going. A rhyme should help that thought move.
Listen, then Paint
Press Play and count four beats per bar. Choose A — stay close, arm Live Paint and tap Drop rhyme now where you want the important sound. Listen again and move the target if needed.
Write toward the moment
Switch to Write and finish bar 4. Try “We follow it home where the warm wind blows,” then replace the generic detail with something only your narrator would notice. The example is a starting point, not a required answer.
Use one tool for one problem
Select only the phrase that needs help. Find words explores alternatives; Find sounds develops a sound family. Phrase Bank keeps candidates until you decide where they belong. In your song, the Back button returns to the working bar.
Perform, listen and revise
Play the loop and speak the words. Select the crowded or unclear bar, then use Revise in Write. Keep the revision only if its meaning and delivery improve. Record is optional in your own project and unavailable in the demo.
Save something you can return to
Use Save checkpoint and confirm the save message. In the demo, this saves only to this browser. In your song, check the Studio save status before leaving and use the export tools for a local copy.
Feedback beside your lyric
Under Full lyrics, select a word to see its bar and beat, syllable count, dictionary stress, assigned rhyme families and delivery note. Add a family or stress intention without opening another tool. Fit checks flag dense delivery, cross-bar placement and timing that needs review; they do not grade the quality of your writing.
Estimated layout spaces words by syllable count. Planned landing is a position you chose. Live tap measures your button press during playback, not the spoken word. From recording uses automatic word alignment from a saved take; it is still approximate. Individual syllable spacing and dictionary stress are never presented as measured vocal timing or emphasis. Changes to the lyric, grid or recording offset mark the old alignment for review.
Choose Rehearse bar to loop the current bar in Perform. Choose Revise this bar to pause playback and return to the same wording and selection. Recording remains optional. After analyzing a take, Align recording to current lyrics attaches matching word times without replacing your written line breaks. Unmatched words keep their estimated placement.
Choose the tool by the problem
| What is getting in the way? | Open | Useful result |
|---|---|---|
| I can hear a rhythm but have no words yet. | Paint → Live Paint | A few planned sound landings with room between them. |
| This word says the wrong thing. | Find words → Word Lab | Choices to compare for meaning and spoken fit. |
| The line needs a more useful rhyme. | Find sounds in Paint → Rhyme Lab | A sound family that can advance the idea. |
| I have several good phrases but no place for them. | Phrase Bank | Organized possibilities; insert only what earns its place. |
| This bar is too dense or says too little. | Develop bar | Focused alternatives to review before accepting. |
| The lyric reads well but feels wrong aloud. | Perform → Revise in Write | A specific change to breath, stress, space or wording. |
| The next section needs the same rhythm. | Reuse a section pattern | A preview of structure to reuse with independent words. |
| I need to see the whole section’s sound pattern. | Rhyme Map | A section-level view with a route back to the bar to edit. |
Six terms you will see
- Bar
- A musical time window. In the example’s 4/4 meter it contains four quarter-note beats.
- Sound family
- A labeled group of related sounds you choose, such as close / grows. Shared color is not proof of a perfect rhyme.
- Landing / target
- The planned moment for an important sound, usually its stressed rhyme syllable.
- Editing bar / playing bar
- The place you are changing and the place you are hearing. They can be different.
- Practice speed
- Slower or faster playback for rehearsal, separate from the source music’s grid BPM.
- Take
- A saved performance with the lyric and timing snapshot used when it was recorded.
Know what the demo is showing
Interactive: the beat, playhead, targets, editable lyrics, mode switches, pattern previews and Undo/Redo. Explained only: account tools, recording, uploads, AI suggestions and transcription. The demo makes no provider requests for paid analysis and awards no real XP. Open your own project to use available services under your plan.
Before calling a section finished: can you say what it means, deliver it without rushing, hear why the chosen sounds belong, and identify how the next section changes the song? A high count or score cannot answer those questions for you.
Move between modes and tools
Paint drops and ordinary lyrics: click an empty grid position to add a drop. Its word / phrase field appears inside the bar and updates the full lyric and the drop label together. Full lyrics stays editable in both Paint and Write, so the rest of the line can remain ordinary text. Highlight a specific word before placing a drop to attach that exact occurrence. Click a selected drop again, or use Remove drop, to remove its timing marker while keeping the words. Undo restores the drop. Locked drops must be unlocked first.
Finding your way: Paint, Write and Perform stay beside playback as you move through the Canvas. Switch at any time: your section, editing bar, draft, selected landing, phrase and playback position stay together. Resume this bar returns to the lyric cursor during your open session. Saved drafts retain the mode, section and bar; a browser reload does not preserve a live text selection. Mode changes do not consume Undo; Undo and Redo keep the current mode.
Work on the same phrase: The current section and bar appear below the mode switch. Use Develop bar, Find words or Find sounds, Phrase Bank, and Rehearse in Perform from there. Existing tools receive that bar and its selected phrase. Back to Paint, Write or Perform returns to your Canvas. Opening another workspace pauses its audio; press Play to continue at the retained position. Perform shows the section’s lyrics for rehearsal, with Revise in Write returning to the editor. Recording continues across Canvas modes, with a stop-and-save control beside playback. Stop a take before opening another tool. Opening Daily saves your song first.
Playback options contains loops, count-in and guide taps. Section settings change the section itself. Develop your song groups imports, reuse, exports, timing settings and existing writing tools. Advanced controls stay closed until needed.
Open a saved song in Writer’s Room and choose Rhyme Canvas. Paint, Write and Perform use the same lyrics, families and saved project. The existing writing tools remain available below the Canvas.
Paint
A spatial tap places a target where you click. Live Paint captures when you act: choose a family, press Play, arm Live Paint and press Drop rhyme now. No microphone is needed for listening or mental humming.
Write
Type ordinary lyrics. Every bar shows its full syllable count, including uncolored words. Dictionary gaps are estimates; pronunciation corrections stay with the song. Editing and playing bars are shown separately.
Perform
Record only after explicitly pressing Record, or import your own vocal or hum. Takes retain their lyric, grid and practice-speed snapshot. Review approximate signal timing separately from word transcription.
Understand the clock
Grid BPM and meter describe the source music. Practice speed changes playback while requesting the browser’s pitch preservation. A bar’s width does not grow when you add words. Set the first downbeat and the section’s audio-start mapping; rearranging sections does not cut or rearrange the beat. Variable tempo uses explicit quarter-beat/BPM points.
The white playhead follows playback through empty and filled bars. Pin the editing bar while listening elsewhere. Free timing preserves the raw drop; snapping includes triplets and is reversible. A target defaults to the stressed rhyme syllable. Optional spans mark duration, not a syllable count; cross-bar words are counted once at their start.
Review sound relationships
Families have labels, sound examples, pronunciation notes and independent display colors. A phrase may belong to more than one family. Planned, suggested and accepted targets remain distinct. Writer-approved near rhymes are not automatically perfect rhymes. Local sound analysis proposes internal and multisyllabic connections for review; it does not infer a performed timestamp from written text.
Use focused craft actions and Light, Balanced, Dense or Technical Rap intentions. Compare alternatives before accepting. Exact-wording locks must be released before replacing their wording. Keep useful alternatives in the existing Vault.
Import and privacy
Text import accepts TXT or Markdown up to 60,000 characters and preserves headings and original content. Line-to-bar assignments start as provisional. Beats accept WAV, MP3 or M4A that the browser can decode, up to 25 MB and 10 minutes. Vocals and hums accept supported WAV, MP3, M4A, WebM or OGG, up to 10 MB and two minutes. Codec support varies by browser; a failed decode does not count as a successful import.
Private uploads use the existing plan entitlements. Local Cadence DNA measures approximate activity, rests and contour. Humming never creates lexical rhyme families. Optional word analysis transfers the selected take to the configured OpenAI service under the existing Pro audio entitlement. Transcription and word alignment are separate estimates. Correct and review results before applying; stale results cannot replace newer writing. Canceling prevents result application, although already submitted provider work may finish.
Reuse and practice
Save a pattern, choose the destination, and preview Pattern Only, Pattern + Sound Families or Full Section Including Lyrics. Choose which dimensions to retain. Independent copies are the default; linked chorus repeats require confirmation and can be detached.
Studio keeps feedback quiet, Practice emphasizes objectives, and Hide removes game feedback. Eleven exercises cover Rhyme Craft, Cadence Control, Section Design, Revision and Completion. Signed-in achievements use the existing Daily history with saved evidence. Subjective sound and meaning checks require writer review. Repeating a completion does not award duplicate XP, and tools never require XP to unlock.
Troubleshooting and recovery
- If the grid drifts, check downbeat, half/double tempo, beat unit and tempo-map changes before revising the words.
- For late taps, calibrate the input offset separately from output latency. Recalibrate after changing devices. Bluetooth and browser buffering can vary; zero-latency timing is not promised.
- Audio interruptions pause or resynchronize playback. Press Play explicitly after a device or tab interruption.
- If microphone permission is denied or the browser cannot record, import a supported recording. Use headphones to reduce beat bleed.
- Keep the page open while uploads save. Check the save status before leaving; use Undo, saved checkpoints and existing version recovery. Export a local copy if the network is unavailable.
Open Canvas guided tour · original demo inside Canvas for the replayable twelve-step walkthrough. The demo uses an original sample, cannot overwrite your song, and consumes no paid analysis or real XP.
Rhyme Canvas — what changed
Paint, Write and Perform share the saved song. Live timing targets, reviewed word alignment, private audio imports, reusable section patterns and optional Daily craft exercises build on the existing writing tools. The guided demo uses original material separately from your song. Approximate hum contours and repeated-shape suggestions contain no invented lyrics. Open the controls you need while keeping the main writing surface clear.
04 · SELECTION TOOLS
Use sound and poetic devices surgically.
Sound Family
Highlight a phrase, select Sound Family, then Find matching sound shapes. Candidates are ranked by sound shape, cadence, and semantic usefulness. Use + Bank to collect any number of choices without replacing the lyric.
Phrase Bank
Keep words, phrases, partial lines, anchors and payoffs in one project-aware workspace. Organize them as Family A, B, C, D or your own labels; set intended placement; and mark each item Must use, Prefer, Optional or Do not use. Generation respects those rules while meaning, cadence and natural language remain higher priorities than decorative rhyme. Nothing is inserted until you choose Add to bar.
Poetic Device
Choose alliteration, assonance, consonance, onomatopoeia, rhyme, metaphor, simile, personification, imagery, repetition, meter, or enjambment; then set scope and intensity. Generate three controlled options and apply only the version you approve.
Use a device to clarify or intensify
Let it serve meaning and delivery.
Do not decorate every line
Constant devices sound artificial and erase contrast.
05 · INSTANT WORD LAB
Search the raw material without spending an AI assist.
Open Instant Word Lab from the Studio toolbar or use the standalone Word Lab. Enter a word or short phrase to receive exact rhymes, scored slant rhymes, phrase-sized matches, dictionary syllables, stress patterns, synonyms and semantic families from the shared local index.
Results compare pronunciation rather than spelling. A fit score describes sound similarity—not writing quality.
Phrase-sized matches can include multiword landings and multisyllabic words with a related sound tail.
Synonyms, contrast words and semantic relatives help protect the idea before sound starts controlling the line.
Selecting a result makes it the active sound. It never inserts or rewrites lyric text automatically.
The core lookup uses a local phonetic and semantic index. Contextual AI remains optional for line-specific ranking or development.
Dialect, singing, compression and slang can change pronunciation. Perform the result before treating the count as final.
A large list can still make a weak lyric. Use the local index to widen choices, then reject any option that damages meaning, voice or natural syntax.
05 · BEAT, FLOW, AND MELODY
Capture the pocket the tool can actually hear.
Flow-to-Lyrics
Use articulated mumble, scat, or rough words with word-like consonants and changing vowels. Pure humming cannot reliably produce lyrics.
Melody Sketch
Use humming and held notes. It maps pitch contour and phrase movement without claiming it heard words.
Set BPM and beat
Use an included beat or privately upload one you can legally use. Confirm source BPM by ear.
Choose mode and length
Choose Flow or Melody and 1, 2, or 4 bars. Use headphones to avoid beat bleed.
Run preflight
Ready can proceed; Caution deserves review; Redo means the source is too weak or ambiguous.
Preview, then apply
Preview timed takes on the beat and use one only when meaning and movement work.
Read it back
Treat timing, stress, pause, and duration scores as diagnostic—not artistic grades.
06 · DEEP CRAFT
Build architecture instead of accumulating lines.
Rhyme + Punchline Lab
Generate phrase-sized clouds or punchlines, then place the anchor internally, ending, delayed, cross-bar, or pickup.
Voice DNA
Set register, energy, regional influence, era, profanity, speech looseness, implication, imagery, and your vocabulary.
Block Controls
Set Flow Architecture and measurable rhyme, cadence, family-duration, and mutation targets.
Transition Architect
Carry part of one sound family into the next when the family is ready to evolve.
Bar 9 Contrast Event
Change density, stress, triplets, rests, stretched words, pickups, perspective, or family for a reason.
Must-Convey Coverage
Review whether required ideas appear in the draft. This is not fact-checking or human verification.
Route Coach
Choose setup, evidence, escalation, contrast, or payoff before requesting validated anchor-aware bars.
07 · RHYME LAB, SOUND BANK, AND VAULT
Three spaces with three different jobs.
A construction table where meaning chooses the concept and sound material serves it—not the reverse.
The project’s working sound vocabulary, including phrase rhymes and believable pronunciation guidance. Add a phrase or make it an anchor.
Cross-song memory for lines, hooks, concept fields, semantic bridges, references, punchline chains, rhyme families and flow ideas.
Harvest Draft protects exact strong excerpts—including connected runs and bridges—before a large rewrite. Keep, Ignore, Continue writing, or Keep all remaining.
08 · REVIEW
Use Rhyme Map as evidence, not decoration.
Switch between Generated proposal and Current draft, then inspect:
- Sound architecture: probable vowel paths and family movement.
- Cadence changes: written density, plus audio timing when available.
- Four-dimensional flow: rhyme depth, evolution, landing position, and motif transformation.
- Optional idea layer: each bar’s new contribution, setup/payoff role, strongest angle, concept status and planned exit.
- Internal rhyme: events before line endings.
- Multisyllabic connections: phrase links rather than inflated counts.
- Rhyme bridges: evidence that one family becomes another.
Concept labels and quality scores are model-assisted construction notes, not proof of originality. Perform the lyric aloud; if the map and your ear disagree, your judgment is final.
09 · SPOTLIGHTS & REFERRALS
Share the progress without publishing the private project.
A SongIntent Spotlight is an optional public mini-page built from a finished render, lyric improvement, Academy graduation, Challenge entry, milestone, or creator recap. Your underlying project remains private.
Share a hook, lyric excerpt, before-and-after revision, finished song, graduation, Challenge entry, milestone, or recap.
Nothing publishes until you confirm you have permission to share the selected lyrics and audio. You can disable downloads.
Copy the public link or caption, use native sharing, or download portrait and square cards with light SongIntent attribution.
The Spotlight dashboard reports views, plays, shares, reactions, attributed signups, qualified referrals, and available bonus assists.
Archive a Spotlight from the dashboard to remove its public page. This does not delete the source song or private project.
Both writers receive five bonus AI assists only after the invited writer creates an account and saves a substantive project. Rewards are capped at three qualified referrals per referrer each month and expire after 90 days.
Clicks do not earn rewards. Rewarded recommendations should be disclosed honestly. Spotlights promote the creator’s work first; SongIntent attribution stays secondary.
09 · SAVE, EXPORT, AND DATA
Leave with a usable song and recoverable record.
| Control | Use |
|---|---|
| Save | Free includes one active project; Creator and Pro include unlimited projects. |
| Versions · Creator | Compare saved drafts, restore a checkpoint, or reopen a saved AI proposal without spending another assist. Reviewing a proposal does not replace your lyrics. |
| TXT · Free | Plain lyrics, meaning, BPM, and authorship note. |
| LRC · Creator | One cue per lyric line for music players. Placement is estimated from tempo or a cadence guide. |
| SRT · Creator | One caption per lyric line, labeled as estimated timing. Check it against the final performance. |
| CSV · Pro | Lyric and anchor markers for a DAW, with an explicit estimated timing source. |
| JSON · Pro | Portable lyrics, timing, controls, anchors, and history. |
| Data → Delete | Permanently removes the current project. Export first; this is irreversible. |
If saving fails, keep the draft open. Retry saving or download lyrics and a complete project backup before reloading. A conflict pauses saving to protect newer work. If account access cannot be checked, use its Retry control without reloading your draft. Projects are private by default. Read the full privacy approach for current operational details.
10 · CONTROL DIRECTORY
Every button and control family in the tool.
Use Ctrl+F on Windows or Command+F on Mac to search the exact label you see.
Build a punchline: thought to connected bars6 controls
Build a punchline
Opens a focused helper inside Writer’s Room for the current project and passage. Opening it does not change the song. Start with a thought, selected lyrics or an ending you already want to keep.
What do you want to say?
Give the passage its message. Mood and one personal detail are optional; existing song context carries into the request.
Use my own ending / Keep this ending
Enter or edit your own payoff without generating options first. Protect its exact wording while developing the setup; conflicts require your decision.
Two or four bars
Choose the proposal length. Review the shown target before drafting or accepting so neighboring material stays intact.
Make it clearer / Less obvious / Stronger setup
Request a focused alternative for this passage. More personal uses details you supply, and Easier to rap is a writing suggestion to rehearse—not a measured performance result.
Keep these bars
Accepts the reviewed proposal into its original target after checking for newer edits and locks. Saving a proposal for later does not insert its words.
Write & perform: compare a lyric in context8 controls
Words & delivery
Select a phrase to see its syllable count, estimated word placement, dictionary stress and existing rhyme-family assignments beside the lyric. Text placement is a guide across your planned range, not a measured performance. Unknown pronunciations stay marked as estimates.
Find rhymes / Save phrase
Tap a word or highlight a phrase, then open the existing rhyme tools or save it to the Vault without leaving your place in the song.
Better lyrics
Give the assistant a concrete detail, an emotional turn and an exact phrase to keep. Your existing Voice DNA and examples remain part of the request. Edit each alternative; syllable, keeper and avoid-list checks update with your words.
A · Original / B · Alternative
Choose Try over this beat, then switch between the original and alternative while rehearsing over the same passage. This plays the beat for your performance; it does not synthesize a vocal. Keep alternative saves your choice; Return to draft leaves the original intact.
Undo last accepted revision
Restores the previous passage after a saved revision. It refuses to overwrite later edits. Earlier checkpoints remain in project history.
More co-writing routes
Give me six more keeps earlier options and edits, sends their wording to the assistant, and filters exact wording duplicates. Up to 24 options stay in the current selection session; save favorites to the Vault for later.
Safe contextual placement
Suggestions remain attached to the passage that requested them. Changed source lyrics require a fresh comparison. Insert after uses a blank next rap bar and never silently replaces an occupied one.
Section timing
Default phrase plans follow the song’s section order. Saved section audio mappings and explicit phrase cues take priority. Adjust the entry and end, then record a read-back; speech-recognition word boundaries remain estimates from audio.
Plan access, upgrades and recovery5 controls
Locked feature / Keep writing
Review the tool’s benefit, required plan and workflow preview without generating or replacing lyrics. Keep writing dismisses the preview.
Choose plan / checkout
Review the initial charge, renewal and consent statements for that plan. Changing the plan or offer requires reviewing renewal again. Selecting a plan is not payment.
Manage billing / Check activation again
Open Manage billing to review your subscription, stop renewal, or open Stripe separately. Cancellation feedback is optional. A recorded request is distinguished from a Stripe-confirmed cancellation. Retry delayed activation instead of purchasing a duplicate subscription.
My Songs / render limits
Delivered songs remain available. Limits offer relevant plans or eligible one-time packs. Stem processing refreshes automatically; failed requests can be retried, and completed downloads remain available.
Resume production
Saved production choices return after upgrading. Review and approve the current lyric again; long-lyric fit requires a fresh review before generation.
Studio header18 controls
SongIntent logo
Returns to the homepage. Save first if the status does not say Saved.
Live Project name
Shows the destination or title from your brief; it does not publish the song.
Genre DNA selector
Changes the composition profile, genre voice starting point, default structure, phrasing rules, rhyme expectations, quality audit, and built-in beat.
DNA score
Opens the live genre-fit audit and Genre DNA settings. It is revision guidance, not an artistic grade.
Target song structure
Chooses one of three genre-native architectures. Existing lyrics remain untouched and map to the new section roles by position.
Apply genre voice defaults
Applies the selected genre's voice starting point. Customized Voice DNA is otherwise preserved when switching genres.
Writer’s Room
Recommended everyday view for selection-driven writing and revision.
Deep Craft · Advanced · Pro
Opens advanced rhyme, voice, anchor, cadence, structure and meaning controls.
Plan badge
Shows the plan and remaining monthly AI assists; select it to view pricing.
Save / save status
Immediately saves and reports Saving, Saved, or unsaved changes.
Display & text
Uses Comfortable or Compact interface density and changes lyric-editor text from 14–20 px; exports are unaffected.
Focus / Focused
Hides guidance and side panels without changing the song.
Writing Tools
Groups Find Sounds, Phrase Bank, Quick Word Search, Saved Lines & Ideas, and Find Lines Worth Saving so they remain available without competing with the primary workflow.
Project
Groups version history, privacy and project data, deletion, and every export format.
Help
Opens the updated guided tour, documentation, and legal information. Jump to a topic in the tour to review feedback, A/B rehearsal, saving, or plan access.
Start → Draft → Refine → Hear → Repair
Shows the current creative stage without forcing a linear wizard.
Next best step
Offers one contextual recommendation. It is optional, can be minimized, and never changes the song automatically.
14-Day Academy invitation
Appears for signed-in writers who have never enrolled. It disappears after enrollment; the Academy advances by lesson completion rather than calendar date.
Beat transport and song map9 controls
Play / Pause
Starts or pauses the selected beat.
Loop 1–4
Repeats the current four-bar writing window.
Beat name / headphones
Opens Beat Rack for beat choice, volume, uploads, and source BPM.
BPM
Sets tempo from 40–240. Extreme playback-speed changes are capped to protect audio quality.
Transport timeline
Shows the active bar during writing and playback.
Load Example
Replaces the visible editable draft with an example. Save keepers first.
Edit brief
Returns to intent setup to change meaning or destination.
16-bar map
Selects bars 1–4, opens the Bar 9 hinge, and shows planned rhyme-family positions.
? help icons
Open precise definitions for slots, cadence, anchors, meaning coverage, and other metrics.
Writer’s Room and selection actions15 controls
What do you need?
Sets Quick Write intent: continue, stronger image, tighter cadence, or sharper punchline.
Optional direction
Adds a constraint such as ‘colder,’ ‘less obvious,’ or ‘keep my opening.’
Get 3 … options
Creates three options for only that bar; none is inserted yet.
Use this option
Places the chosen option into the active bar as an editable take.
Highlight lyric text
Activates the contextual co-writer for exactly that phrase, line, or passage.
Contextual actions
Start with Strengthen the idea, Build a punchline chain, Find the next angle, Make it conversational, or Add a stronger payoff. More includes semantic bridges, concept exits, references, negative space, rhyme, cadence, flow and performance moves.
Replace selection
Replaces only the highlighted text.
Use rewrite / Use here
Uses the option as the active editable lyric.
Continue after / Insert after
Keeps the current lyric and adds the option after it.
Save to Vault
Stores the option without changing the lyric.
Sound Family
Finds phrase-sized sound shapes for highlighted text.
Poetic Device
Applies a selected sound, figurative, or structural device.
Generate three controlled options
Uses the selected device, scope, and intensity.
Replace selected phrase
Changes only the highlight when phrase scope returns a replacement.
Use rewritten bar/pair
Applies the proposed bar or two-bar rewrite as an editable take.
Audio, cadence and read-back12 controls
Flow-to-Lyrics
Use for articulated mumble, scat, or rough words with consonant and vowel changes.
Melody Sketch
Use for humming, held notes, and pitch or phrase shape without word-like sounds.
1 / 2 / 4 bars
Sets capture length; count-in and auto-stop follow BPM.
Record / Stop
Captures a private microphone performance sketch.
Upload performance
Uses an audio file you own instead of recording live.
Check input before generation
Checks silence, clipping, articulation, phrase movement, or usable pitch before spending an assist.
Re-check
Repeats preflight after changing the capture.
Generate lyric takes
Creates timed options from a usable flow capture.
Preview on beat
Auditions a take without adopting it.
Use editable take
Applies the timed take to the lyric canvas.
Read-back
Compares your performed lyric with source timing, stress, pauses, and duration.
Save private review
Sends numeric ratings and diagnostics only; lyric text and audio are excluded.
Deep Craft inspector12 controls
Assistance
Chooses proposal size: Coach, Fragments, Line options, Section draft, Full song, or Four-genre variants.
Generate
Creates a reviewable proposal using the brief, Voice DNA, controls, and locks.
Rhyme tab
Builds a sound cloud or punchlines and places an anchor internally, at an ending, delayed, cross-bar, or as a pickup.
Voice tab
Controls register, energy, region, era, profanity, slang, grammar, implication, imagery, code-switching, vocabulary, and examples.
Reset Voice DNA
Returns voice controls to defaults.
Controls tab
Sets Flow Architecture, rhyme density, depth, strictness, internal rhyme, cadence, family duration, and mutation.
Handoff tab
Plans how one sound family becomes the next; Ask engine to bridge returns coaching.
Hinge tab
Plans a purposeful Bar 9 change; Generate hinge options returns proposals.
Meaning tab
Reviews must-convey coverage. It is not fact-checking or human verification.
Coach tab
Diagnoses the active lyric; Route Coach separates meaning planning from anchor-aware construction.
Open advanced construction
Switches Writer’s Room into Deep Craft without discarding the draft.
Plan handoff
Opens transition planning for the active block.
Rhyme Lab, banks, proposals, and Rhyme Map18 controls
Meaning Bank Add
Saves an image, emotion, title, or must-say idea as the conceptual foundation. The engine may develop a useful field or bridge beneath generation without adding another panel.
Build inventory
Enter a word or short phrase and click Build inventory or press Enter. Dictionary sound matches appear while AI checks the song’s meaning. Progress, errors and Retry stay inside the window. If AI is unavailable, dictionary matches remain usable and are clearly labeled as sound-only matches. Nothing enters the lyric automatically.
Keep this as a rhyme column
Keeps one family visible while you compare another.
Bank
Moves selected choices into Sound Bank.
Build bar / 2 bars / 4 bars
Requests a draft scoped to that family.
Plan a bridge
Moves from multiple family columns to the Handoff panel.
Sound Bank: Add to bar
Appends the phrase to the active bar.
Sound Bank: Use as anchor
Makes it a planned landing instead of lyric text.
Vault: Use here / Insert after / Remove
Uses, inserts, or deletes the saved item.
Proposal: Keep current draft
Closes the proposal without applying it.
Proposal: Save good ideas first
Runs Harvest Draft before replacement.
Accept into editable song
Adopts the proposal while keeping it editable.
Open section in Writer’s Room
Moves one Quick Create section into focused co-writing.
Open Rhyme Map
Analyzes sound families, cadence, flow, internal rhyme, phrase depth and bridges; generated rap also includes an optional idea-chain layer.
Generated proposal / Current draft
Changes the map source; Generated stays disabled until a proposal exists.
All families / Family A–E
Filters probable sound families.
Any map bar or finding
Returns to that editable bar.
Close / X
Dismisses the current drawer or dialog without applying an option.
11 · TROUBLESHOOTING
When a control is disabled or a result feels wrong.
My save failed.
Keep the draft open and choose Retry saving. Download lyrics and a project backup before reopening the saved song. A newer draft from another tab pauses saving so your changes do not overwrite it.
I lost an AI proposal after refreshing.
Open Project → Versions, choose Review proposal, then Open proposal for review. Your current lyrics stay unchanged until you accept a section or proposal.
Payment confirmation is taking longer than usual.
Choose Check activation again or open Studio. If you completed payment, do not buy a second subscription. Manage billing remains available in Studio when an existing subscription needs payment attention.
Account check is unavailable while writing.
Your draft and saved banks remain in the project. Use the Retry control beside account status to refresh access without reloading your writing.
Are export timestamps measured from my performance?
No. LRC, SRT and DAW markers use estimated lyric placement from tempo or a matching cadence guide. Recorded read-back analysis is the separate source for measured performance timing.
Generate is disabled.
Confirm the AI engine is ready, required meaning or selection exists, and no request is already running. Manual writing remains open after AI limits.
Flow-to-Lyrics says redo.
Use headphones, reduce noise, move closer, and articulate consonants and changing vowels. If you hummed, use Melody Sketch.
The lyric rhymes but sounds generic.
Lower density or strictness, strengthen Voice DNA, add concrete details, and favor truthful images over filler.
The cadence score is low.
Inspect phrase starts, stresses, pauses, and duration separately. An intentional flow change can correctly lower the score.
Generated proposal is disabled in Rhyme Map.
It remains unavailable until a proposal exists. Use Current draft or generate first.
I partly like a section before regeneration.
Save, run Harvest Draft, keep excerpts in Vault, and export portable JSON before a large revision.
My uploaded beat sounds wrong.
Confirm its real source BPM in Beat Rack. SongIntent does not pretend it measured the waveform.
Will deleting the project remove it permanently?
Yes. Download TXT and portable JSON first. Project deletion is intentionally irreversible.
Build the song you mean.
Start with intent. Protect the voice. Earn the rhyme. Test the performance. Keep only what you choose.
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