Amper Music
Text-to-music
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What is Amper Music
Amper Music is an AI-assisted music creation product designed to help users generate royalty-free music tracks for media projects. It targets content creators, marketers, and video producers who need background music without hiring a composer. The product focuses on generating music based on user-selected parameters (such as mood, style, and length) and providing editable stems/arrangements for post-production workflows. Amper Music is no longer offered as a standalone product after its acquisition.
Fast music generation workflow
It supports rapid creation of music beds by selecting high-level attributes such as genre, mood, and duration. This reduces the time required to source or commission background music for videos and ads. The workflow is oriented toward non-musicians who need usable tracks quickly.
Designed for media production
The product is built around common content-production needs such as fitting music to a specific length and adapting intensity across sections. It is positioned for use in video, social, and advertising contexts where turnaround time matters. This makes it more practical for production teams than tools that prioritize experimentation over deliverables.
Royalty-free licensing model
Amper is known for offering music intended for commercial use without ongoing performance royalties in typical creator scenarios. This can simplify rights management for teams publishing content across multiple channels. It reduces the administrative overhead compared with licensing popular music catalogs.
Standalone product availability limited
Amper Music was acquired and is not broadly available as an independent, self-serve product today. Prospective customers may not be able to sign up, test, or purchase it directly. This creates procurement risk compared with actively maintained, publicly accessible alternatives.
Less emphasis on text prompting
Compared with newer text-to-music systems, Amper’s workflow historically relies more on selecting structured parameters than on free-form natural-language prompting. This can limit how precisely users can describe a desired musical outcome using text alone. It may require more iterative tweaking through presets and settings.
Creative control constraints
While it supports editing and arrangement controls, the output is bounded by the system’s underlying style templates and generation rules. Users seeking highly specific instrumentation, vocal content, or unconventional structures may find the results difficult to direct. For advanced composers, the tool can feel restrictive versus full DAW-based composition.
Plan & Pricing
| Plan | Price | Key features & notes |
|---|---|---|
| Single track purchase | $49 per track (one-time) | Purchase individual royalty-free tracks (price shown on Shutterstock music track pages). |
| Music Unlimited (Premium Music Subscription) | $49 per month (annual commitment) | Unlimited tracks & SFX; $49/month billed under annual plan (cancellation fee may apply). |
Seller details
Shutterstock, Inc.
New York, NY, USA
2003
Public
https://www.shutterstock.com/
https://x.com/shutterstock
https://www.linkedin.com/company/shutterstock/
