Free: 1. Creator: 10. Pro: 30. One Song Render means one selected finished song.
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
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.
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.
Stems are requested only after a selected song exists—not for hidden candidates.
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.
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
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 | Review the authorship ledger; it is not a full text-diff editor. |
| TXT · Free | Plain lyrics, meaning, BPM, and authorship note. |
| LRC · Creator | Timed lyrics for music players. |
| SRT · Creator | Timestamped lyric blocks for video captions. |
| CSV · Pro | Bar, lyric, and anchor markers for a DAW. |
| JSON · Pro | Portable lyrics, timing, controls, anchors, and history. |
| Data → Delete | Permanently removes the current project. Export first; this is irreversible. |
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.
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 existing complete guided tour, documentation, and legal information.
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
Creates meaning-ranked phrase-rhyme candidates from a word, phrase or concept. Unverified current references are excluded.
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.
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.
Open SongIntent Studio