Your Performance, Their Execution
Hum a melody, tap a rhythm, play four chords badly. Timbre transfer keeps your notes and your groove and replaces the instrument entirely. The ideas stay yours; the machine handles execution.
Academy / Stable Audio Ladder / Level 2
Stable Audio Creative Control & Workflow
Level 2 introduces the three capabilities most Stable Audio users never touch at all: audio-to-audio transformation, inpainting for surgical repair, and causal continuation for building arrangements in directed sections. Twelve sessions cover the compound prompt formula, the init_noise_level ranges that make timbre and style transfer work, the large-mask-first inpainting discipline, model routing and the cost curve, DAW integration, catalogue building, rights and registration, sync packaging and commercial release, and honest revenue modelling.
Repair Without Losing the Take
Inpainting regenerates a masked region and preserves everything outside it. Students learn the counterintuitive large-mask-first discipline that makes it work — and that nobody works out under deadline pressure.
Route by Cost, Not by Default
The four models are genuinely different tools. Students learn to send each job to the cheapest model that can actually do it — the single largest lever on cost per delivered asset.
What You'll Cover
Transformation, repair, arrangement, and the commercial ground underneath them.
The 12 sessions run in deliberate sequence: the compound prompt formula, sectional arrangement through causal continuation, audio-to-audio and init_noise_level, timbre transfer, style transfer, inpainting, model routing and the cost curve, the DAW plugin and the stem handoff, catalogue and library building, copyright and rights for AI music, sync licensing foundations and commercial release standards, and revenue modelling across four income paths.
Every session ends with a required deliverable. Students leave with a five-piece EP, complete sync packages, a 150-asset sound library, documented routing rules, a reusable production template, full provenance records, and a written ninety-day plan.
Where This Level Fits
Level 2 makes you systematic. Level 3 makes it a business.
Level 1 made you competent; Level 2 makes you fast and repeatable. You leave with a working catalogue, a structured library, a measured cost per delivered asset and a documented rights position — all four of which Level 3 operates on rather than creates.
This level is right for producers already generating audio regularly who want to turn that activity into a system they can price, deliver and defend — and for anyone who has hit the ceiling of what text-to-audio alone can do.
Access & Pricing
Simple one-time purchase. Ongoing value.
Level 2 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
Stop curating the machine's ideas. Start executing your own.
Text-to-audio is a request — you describe, the machine decides, you accept or reject. Audio-to-audio inverts that entirely: you decide the melody, the groove and the feel, and the machine handles execution. Level 2 is where the tool stops being a generator and becomes an instrument you can fix, extend and direct.