The Sonx Journal

Notes on AI music

Long-form essays, app comparisons, and plain-English guides on how AI music actually works — from the team building Sonx.

How AI Music Generation Actually Works in 2026

From a text prompt to a finished song in under a minute — what's really happening inside the model? We break down diffusion, transformers, voice cloning and the new wave of multi-stage AI music systems, without the math.

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Sonx vs Suno vs Udio: An Honest Side-by-Side for 2026

We tested all three with the same 24 prompts across genres — pop, lo-fi, drill, ambient — and judged sound quality, prompt adherence, voice cloning, and price. Here's what we found.

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How to Make a TikTok-Ready Song from a Single Sentence

A step-by-step on writing prompts that produce hook-first, vertical-friendly tracks — including the structure, length, and lyric tricks that work on short-form video.

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