How to Make a Beat for Your Vocals with AI (Loops That Fit)

1Step 1: Open Loops and add your vocal

Log in at app.midigenie.com and open Loops. At the top you'll see Add a beat or vocal. Press it to upload a file, or press Record to sing or hum straight into your mic, for up to three minutes. Before anything is uploaded you confirm the audio is yours to use: your own vocal, or one you have permission for.

Recording works the same way as a file: you see the level as you sing, then listen back and choose Use it or Record again.

2Step 2: Say it's a vocal, and hear it first

MIDI Genie asks what you added: A beat or A vocal. Choose A vocal. That tells it to build a full beat around your voice rather than add one part to an existing beat. Press play to check it's the right file before it uploads; if not, choose Choose another file.

3Step 3: Check the tempo and key of your vocal

Next comes Check the tempo and key. MIDI Genie listens to your vocal and suggests its key (three options, likeliest first) and its tempo. Press play with Hear the click and Hear the key on. The click should land on the beat of your singing, and the key's chord should blend in under your voice, not clash.

• Key sounds off? Try the other two suggestions, or pick any key from Other key.
• Click twice as fast, or half as fast, as your vocal feels? Press ÷2 or ×2.
• Know the tempo already? Type it, or press Tap along with your vocal.
• File name says a key and BPM (like hook_Fmaj_74bpm.wav)? It's offered as an option to try too.

Press Save. Every loop you make for this vocal is made at this tempo and in this key, and lines up to it.

4Step 4: Choose Matched and describe the beat

Your vocal now sits at the top with its tempo and key. Choose the kind of loop: Full for a whole beat, or one part (Drums, Melody, Chords, Bass, Pad or Vocal chants). For a beat around a vocal, start with Full.

Then choose between Standard and Matched:

Describe the beat in a sentence: the genre, the mood and the sounds you hear in your head. The price in credits shows on the Make loop button before you press it.

Descriptions that work well:

• Warm Afrobeats groove with log drums, shakers and soft Rhodes chords
• Gospel chords on a Hammond organ with a soft live drum groove
• Lo-fi beat with dusty drums, upright bass and a mellow electric piano
• Cinematic hip-hop with strings, deep drums and a slow piano motif
• Smooth R&B with a round bass, finger snaps and airy pads

5Step 5: Make the loop and hear it with your vocal

Press Make loop. A few moments later the loop appears, cut to whole bars on the downbeat. Choose With your track and press Play together to hear the loop under your vocal, in step, before you download anything.

MIDI Genie also checks how well the loop fits your vocal, bar by bar, and tells you. If a loop doesn't sit right, press Make another, or adjust your description (a different instrument, mood or energy) and make a new one.

6Step 6: Line it up, choose the bars and download

Everything you need to finish the loop is under the player:

• « ‹ › » nudge the loop a beat or a quarter beat earlier or later, if it should start off the bar.
• 2 bars, 4 bars, 8 bars set how much to keep. Drag across the waveform to pick exactly which bars.
• Key − / + moves the loop up or down a semitone without changing its speed.
• Hear a voice in it? Remake free: now and then a Matched loop picks up a voice from your vocal. Once per loop, a new take is free.

Press Download to save the loop as a WAV, cut exactly to the bars you chose.

7Step 7: Drop the loop into your DAW

Set your project to your vocal's tempo, put your vocal on one track and the loop on another, both starting at bar 1. Because the loop was made at your vocal's tempo and cut on the downbeat, it lines up without stretching. Then build the rest of the beat around it: add more loops for a drop or a bridge, or make single parts (drums, bass, chords) for the same vocal and stack them.