Academy / AIVA Ladder / Level 3

AIVA: Professional AI Music Production

Level 3 is about running a business on AI-assisted composition, including the parts that have nothing to do with music. Twelve sessions cover signature style construction and publication, major sync placement strategy, publisher and library relationships for AI-assisted composers, the full royalty map, teaching as a revenue channel, the RipX and ElevenLabs integrations, the complete MWHQ stack, brand partnerships, live performance with human players reading AIVA-derived parts, scaling to a thousand cues, and financial sustainability at year three.

The Style Is the Asset

A track sells once. A style produces tracks indefinitely. Session 1 covers the twenty-generation iteration methodology that turns a functional style into a signature one — and the strategic decision about which styles to publish and which to keep private.

Parts Real Musicians Can Read

AIVA exports MIDI that a string quartet can read. Session 10 covers the playability pass — breath, bow changes, awkward intervals, page turns — that makes generated parts performable, and the economics that unlocks.

A Catalog, Not a Folder

Naming, folder states, metadata, version control, the 300-download budget, team seats, and a twenty-four month roadmap to a thousand cues. Keep the MIDI — a catalog of scores can be re-rendered in five years; a catalog of bounced audio cannot.

What You'll Cover

The business, the rights, the scale, and what survives the tools.

The 12 sessions run: professional signature style construction and publication, advanced sync placement strategy, publisher and library relationships including the AI disclosure question now being asked directly, publishing and royalty stacking with the AI-specific records that support your position, teaching your method as a course business, AIVA paired with RipX for audio deconstruction, ElevenLabs for the voice AIVA cannot make, the complete integrated MWHQ stack, brand partnerships and sponsorship, live performance and events, scaling to a thousand cues, and sustainability and legacy at year three.

Every session ends with a required deliverable. Students leave with a published style, a fully audited catalog, at least one revenue channel producing income, a twenty-four month operating plan, and a written Legacy Statement.

Where This Level Fits

The tools change completely. The judgement does not change at all.

Everything difficult in this level is transferable. Specifying harmony, building generative systems, layer architecture, register discipline, delivery standards, rights administration and client practice — none of that is about AIVA. AIVA is the current tool that rewards knowing it, and the tools that come next will reward it more.

This level assumes Level 2 is complete and that you are already delivering work. It is for the composer ready to operate a catalog as an appreciating asset rather than a folder of files.

Access & Pricing

Simple one-time purchase. Ongoing value.

Level 3 follows the same Academy pricing standard used across all live ladders.

Public

$299 one-time purchase with lifetime access.

Pro

Use the Pro Workshop Discount at checkout to reduce the price to $249.

All Access

Use the All Access Workshop Discount at checkout to reduce the price to $199.

Next Step

The work is still the work.

Somebody still has to know what makes a bass line good, where a section should return, when a part needs to stop, and what the piece is actually for. AI has moved the labour further and faster than anything before it. It has not moved the judgement anywhere. Level 3 builds the business around the judgement.