From a Suno, Udio or ACE Studio track to an editable session

The short answer. Export the audio you are allowed to use as WAV, ideally as stems, import it into a DAW at the right tempo, and write your own editable parts around it. The audio stays audio. If you want its notes, that needs a separate audio-to-MIDI tool, and results vary. Check each service's current export and rights pages before you start, because both have changed this year.

This guide is for one situation: you have a track made with an AI music service, you have the right to use it, and you want to build on it in a DAW. It is not about which service is better. Suno Studio vs monody covers the difference between a tool that makes audio and a DAW where you make the notes. Here we cover the practical path: export, import, tempo, your own parts, and finishing. Everything about the services is from their help pages as of 4 October 2026, and those pages change often.

Before you export: rights and limits

The points below are what the services publish. Read each service's current terms before you rely on them.

• Suno. The help center says songs made on the free plan are for non-commercial use only and that subscribing later does not give retroactive commercial rights. Songs made while subscribed to Pro or Premier carry commercial use rights, kept after cancelling (ownership). Its Upcoming Changes FAQ, edited 10 August 2026, describes download limits from 3 September: 7 lifetime trial downloads on the free plan for personal use, 20 a month on Pro and 60 on Premier, with stems counting as part of the same song's download.
• Udio. The help center's UMG partnership note, dated 17 February 2026, says downloading of audio, video and stems has been disabled.
• ACE Studio. Its export docs describe exporting audio per track or as a master, and exporting MIDI. Its docs also have a License & Copyright section, which you should read before using material commercially.

If you can't confirm you have the rights, don't build on it. Also keep the plan you were on when the track was made, since Suno ties rights to that.

Step 1: Export the most separate version you can get

Prefer stems or a multitrack over one stereo file, because you can fix and replace parts. Take the highest-quality WAV on offer and avoid MP3.

Step 2: Fix the tempo before you import

Suno's own help article on tempo drift says songs can drift in tempo, which is "especially frustrating if you want to import the stems from your song into another digital audio workstation". Its fix is to lock the project to a manual BPM in Studio, then export the multitrack, and set the same tempo in your DAW. That article is archived under Studio v1, so confirm it matches the current Studio.

If you can't lock it at the source, find the tempo by ear or with a tap-tempo tool, set your DAW to it, import all stems at bar 1 and check that a drum hit lines up at bar 33, not just at bar 1. If it drifts, you will need warping or another approach, and that is a feature of your DAW, not of any export.

Step 3: Decide what you are keeping

The rewriting is where an assistant helps: you ask for a bassline in the key of the track, and you edit the notes. AI basslines you can edit shows one example of what comes back and how to change it.

Step 4: Add your parts around the audio

In a DAW the plan is the same: import the stems at bar 1, mute the stem you are replacing, and write notes in its place. In monody:

1. Import the stems as audio tracks (WAV, AIFF, FLAC and MP3 are accepted) and set the project tempo.
2. Mute the stem you want to rewrite.
3. Write the new part in the piano roll, or ask for one. The assistant works from the project's notes and settings and, with Finish, measurements of a render. It doesn't listen to audio the way you do, so tell it the key, the tempo and what the part should do.
4. Edit the notes until they fit, then check the low end against the original audio (kick and bass clashing).

monody does not separate stems from a mixed file and does not convert audio to notes. If you only have a stereo file, split it with a tool that does that, and check that tool's terms first.

If you want the notes from the audio

Several tools offer it, with different limits:

• Suno Studio's help says you can extract stems and then choose Get MIDI on a stem, which "costs 10 credits".
• ACE Studio lists Vocal to MIDI among its AI tools.
• Pro Tools can extract MIDI from an audio track through its Melodyne integration (see Pro Tools and AI).

None of these is a transcription you can trust unseen. Check the notes against the audio by ear, correct the wrong ones, and treat the result as a draft.

Step 5: Finish it

An imported AI track and your own parts rarely sit at the same level, with the same low end. Check loudness against your target and the low end for clashes. How to finish a track is the checklist. monody's Finish view measures a render against Streaming, Apple Music and Club targets. It is a measurement tool, not a tonal master.

Failure checks

• Stems don't line up. Different start points or tempo drift. Re-export from one place, and import all at bar 1.
• It sounds thin when you mute a stem. Stems from a separator can lose energy that came from other parts. Listen to the sum, not the solo.
• A rights doubt. Stop and read the service's terms. A good-sounding file isn't permission.

Sources

• Suno help center: Exporting from Studio, How do I get stems?, Fixing tempo drift, Does Suno own the music I make?, Rights if I subscribe later, Upcoming changes FAQ
• Udio help center: UMG partnership changes
• ACE Studio docs: Export files

Checked on 4 October 2026.