Are ProducerAI outputs watermarked?

Yes. Google's ProducerAI announcement of 24 February 2026 states that 'All outputs from ProducerAI are embedded with SynthID, our imperceptible watermark for identifying Google AI-generated content.' Veena puts no watermark on your exports: you export WAV, MP3 or MIDI, the full mix or every track, as often as you like on every plan, and Veena's terms say you own what you make.

What happened to ProducerAI and Riffusion?

Google brought ProducerAI, the platform formerly known as Riffusion, into Google Labs in February 2026 and has since renamed it Google Flow Music; riffusion.com and producer.ai now both redirect to flowmusic.app (checked September 2026). If you are moving on, Veena is a free AI DAW where CoProducer builds songs as real tracks you can edit and export as WAV, MP3 or MIDI files you keep.

ProducerAI Is Now Google Flow Music: How Veena Compares

Veena vs ProducerAI starts with a name change: ProducerAI, formerly Riffusion, is now Google Flow Music, and producer.ai redirects to flowmusic.app (September 2026). Veena is the free AI DAW with a personal music producer built in — CoProducer builds your song as real tracks you edit yourself — while Flow Music edits a song by prompt: "Shorten the intro to 4 bars."

Veena is an AI DAW with a personal music producer built in. Describe the song you want and CoProducer builds it with you — beats, chords, melody, arrangement and mix — as real tracks you can edit, mix and export. Free, in your browser.

Google's own launch post described ProducerAI as "a creative collaborator, whether you're writing lyrics, refining a melody or inventing entirely new genres" — and in the same post stated that "All outputs from ProducerAI are embedded with SynthID, our imperceptible watermark for identifying Google AI-generated content" (Google's ProducerAI announcement, 24 February 2026). Veena is the other shape of tool entirely: a browser DAW where the files at the end are yours, on your disk, with no watermark.

Veena vs ProducerAI: the short answer

Veena wins because ProducerAI, now Google Flow Music, is a generator with a conversation on top and Veena is a workstation with a producer inside it. Flow Music generates songs on Google's Lyria models, marked every ProducerAI output with SynthID, edits by prompt, and lists no MIDI among its plan features. Veena gives you editable MIDI on a multitrack timeline, 4-stem separation of any track you import, hum-to-instrument capture, your own VST and AU plugins through the Veena Bridge helper app, and WAV, MP3 and MIDI export you own. Free to start; Veena Pro is $20 a month.

Veena vs ProducerAI (Google Flow Music), row by row

September 2026	Veena	Google Flow Music (formerly ProducerAI)
What the AI hands back	Editable MIDI and audio on a multitrack timeline	A generated song
How you change a song	Edit any note, part or level yourself, or ask CoProducer	Type a request, such as "Shorten the intro to 4 bars"
MIDI	Every part, editable and exportable	Not among its listed plan features
Who can remix your songs	Only the people you invite into the project	Other users, until you turn off "Allow community remix"
Watermark	None on your exports	"All outputs from ProducerAI are embedded with SynthID"
Exports	WAV, MP3, MIDI, and every track as stems, with no cap	mp3, wav, m4a and stems; no MIDI listed
Price	Free; Veena Pro is $20 a month	Free, then $8, $24 or $64 a month
Where it lives	daw.veena.studio, one browser tab	flowmusic.app; producer.ai and riffusion.com redirect there

What Google's own pages say about ProducerAI and Flow Music

Every ProducerAI output carries a watermark. Google's 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 was no unwatermarked master. Whatever you made there left with a machine-detectable marker attached, on a track you may intend to release as your own.

You edit with sentences, not tools. Google's Flow Music help page tells you to "Prompt Google Flow Music to edit your song" by typing "Shorten the intro to 4 bars" or "Add a bridge before the final chorus", and MIDI is not among the features on its pricing page. "Make the bass less busy" is a request with a thousand valid answers, and you get one of them.

Your songs are open to other users by default. "To disable remix, vibes, and downloads by others, turn off Allow community remix." The launch post said the same of its Spaces, mini-apps for making instruments and effects: they "are shareable and remixable across users."

The front door has already moved. Google's post said "ProducerAI is available globally at www.producer.ai with free and paid plans." Today riffusion.com and producer.ai both redirect to flowmusic.app. A musician who bookmarked Riffusion has watched the product change its name twice.

The model is in court. Independent musicians sued Google in March 2026, accusing it of training its Lyria 3 model "on copyrighted recordings pulled from YouTube without permission or payment" (Music Business Worldwide, 10 March 2026).

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 SynthID marker on every ProducerAI render, edits by prompt rather than by hand, songs open to other people's remixes until you opt out, no MIDI among its listed features, and an address that has changed twice.

The picks

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

Veena is a browser-based AI DAW with a personal music producer, CoProducer, built in, 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." CoProducer plans and carries out 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 effects. 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. 4-stem separation splits any track you import — a voice memo, an old bounce, a demo — into vocals, drums, bass and other, lined up 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 through the Veena Bridge helper app, so the chain you trust travels with you. Export WAV, MP3 or MIDI at the end, the mix or every track, as often as you like, on a free plan or Veena Pro at $20 a month.

Veena runs in a browser tab with no install, which is not just convenience: projects save to your account, so 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.

Everything else aims at the same target. Audio-to-MIDI editing turns imported audio into notes you can genuinely rewrite. Instrument and sound swapping gives a part a new voice without regenerating it. Style and genre transformation, deeper models and reference-matched mastering go further, and real-time collaboration, live since 12 September 2026, lets you invite a co-writer into the session.

Why it wins: its output is a session with a producer inside it — editable, portable, and yours when you close the tab.

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

Google Labs' music generator, formerly Riffusion, launched on "Google DeepMind's Gemini, Lyria 3, Veo and Nano Banana models" and running Lyria 3.5 since 29 July 2026.

What it costs you: control, and a permanent marker. Edits are typed requests, MIDI is not among its listed plan features, and your published songs stay open to other people's remixes until you switch off "Allow community remix". Paid plans run $8, $24 or $64 a month (Google Flow Music's pricing page, September 2026), and every ProducerAI output was "embedded with SynthID" by Google's own launch post.

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

A generator with a Studio surface on its top plan.

What it costs you: your downloads and your editor. Since 3 September 2026, Suno caps downloads at 20 a month on the $10 Pro plan and 60 on the $30 Premier plan, counting songs made before the cap; Studio is Premier-only and "is not compatible with VST or Audio Units plugins"; and free accounts get "No commercial rights" (Suno's pricing page and help centre, September 2026).

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

An AI music generator, now a walled garden after its label licensing deals.

What it costs you: the file. Udio's own help centre states that "downloading of audio, video, and stems has been disabled", its terms forbid releasing what you make on Spotify or YouTube, and credits "don't rollover" (Udio's help centre and terms, September 2026).

5. Mozart AI — a song generator with a studio tab

In the browser, Mozart AI sells an "AI Song Generator & Music Maker"; its chat mode is where "an AI agent acts as your co-producer", by its own description.

What it costs you: certainty about your rights. Its website FAQ says commercial use — "distribution, monetization, sync, releasing your songs" — "requires a Creator subscription or higher", while its App Store listing says "All plans include full commercial rights" (mozartai.com and the App Store, September 2026). Its "DAW" sits behind a chat-first song generator.

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

Agent One, "Your Reasoning AI Music Producer", plans and runs a generation workflow from one chat.

What it costs you: the finish. Its licensing FAQ states "Your final composition can't have 100% of Soundverse generated content" and answers "No." to distributing its output to Spotify or Apple Music as it is, and its prices appear only after you sign up (Soundverse's help centre and pricing page, September 2026).

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 that "the product has been taken offline" and promising only that "Everything you love about WavTool will return soon" (wavtool.com, September 2026) — 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: room, and the rights to its AI starts. The free Studio stops at 16 tracks and 15-minute songs, its AI mixing and vocal clean-up tools cost $14.99 a month, and on songs started with its SongStarter AI "you won't own the rights to the generated track" (BandLab's pricing page and help centre, September 2026).

9. Soundtrap — for classroom multitracking

A browser DAW built around a loop and instrument library.

What it costs you: a rented sound library. Soundtrap's own support centre says "some loops and instruments are locked unless you're on a paid subscription plan", WAV downloads need a paid plan, and its stem splitter is only on the US$20.99-a-month Production & Vocals plan (Soundtrap's pricing page and support centre, September 2026). Nothing on its pages 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. Its own pricing table gives the free Starter plan "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 a month, and the AI — "Music assistant" and "Splitter" — is a separate $12.99-a-month tier again (Amped Studio's pricing page, September 2026).

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. The Mac App Store build "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 support page says "requires macOS 15.6 or later and a Mac with Apple silicon" (Apple, September 2026). There is no personal 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 this category's recent 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 and producer.ai now both redirect to flowmusic.app, while the Google post naming producer.ai is still published. Is my workflow tied to a brand already renamed twice?
Vendors move too. PreSonus's Studio One product URLs now redirect to fender.com as "Fender Studio Pro." Do my project files open in anything but this vendor's software?
Downloads can be switched off. Udio's CEO on 29 October 2025: "Starting today, downloads from the platform will be unavailable." Can I get my work out today, and will I still be able to next year?
Old songs can be re-metered. Suno's download caps apply to "all downloads starting September 3, including songs created before that date." Can a pricing change reach back into my catalogue?
Subscriptions gate access to past work. iZotope: "your tools and effects will revert to read-only mode once you pass the expiration date." Soundraw: "you 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 now Google Flow Music: a Google Labs generator that marked every ProducerAI output with SynthID by Google's own statement, edits your song by prompt, lists no MIDI among its features, leaves your songs open to other people's remixes by default, and lives at an address that has already moved twice.

Make the record somewhere it stays yours. Veena gives you a personal music producer you direct in plain English, editable MIDI on a real multitrack timeline, 4-stem separation of any track you import, hum-to-instrument capture, your own VST and AU plugins through Veena Bridge, and WAV, MP3 and MIDI exports that live on your disk. Start free tonight; Veena Pro is $20 a month.