SteerMusic: Enhanced Musical Consistency for Zero-shot Text-Guided and Personalized Music Editing

Xinlei Niu

Kin Wai Cheuk

Jing Zhang

Naoki Murata

Chieh-Hsin Lai

Michele Mancusi

Woosung Choi

Giorgio Fabbro*

Wei-Hsiang Liao

Charles Patrick Martin

Yuki Mitsufuji

* External authors

AAAI-26

2025

Abstract

Music editing is an important step in music production, which has broad applications, including game development and film production. Most existing zero-shot text-guided methods rely on pretrained diffusion models by involving forward-backward diffusion processes for editing. However, these methods often struggle to maintain the music content consistency. Additionally, text instructions alone usually fail to accurately describe the desired music. In this paper, we propose two music editing methods that enhance the consistency between the original and edited music by leveraging score distillation. The first method, SteerMusic, is a coarse-grained zero-shot editing approach using delta denoising score. The second method, SteerMusic+, enables fine-grained personalized music editing by manipulating a concept token that represents a user-defined musical style. SteerMusic+ allows for the editing of music into any user-defined musical styles that cannot be achieved by the text instructions alone. Experimental results show that our methods outperform existing approaches in preserving both music content consistency and editing fidelity. User studies further validate that our methods achieve superior music editing quality. Audio examples are available on this https URL.