AI Music from Image
Attach the art, and Lyria 3 Pro takes the picture itself as its reference
“Score a theme from this level art with Lyria 3 Pro, using the image itself as the reference: match its mood and setting, instrumental, about two minutes.”
With your level art
The storm rolling in over the temple becomes the build, so the theme starts cold and swells as the weather arrives.
“Paint a moonlit desert oasis for my adventure game, then score it with Lyria 3 Pro using the painting itself as the reference: instrumental, about two minutes.”
The painting and its score come from the same message, and the stillness of the moonlit water carries into a contemplative score.
By the time a level has its art, its mood is already settled. Turning that picture back into a written music brief loses most of what it says, and the level sits silent until someone finds the words.
Attach the art and ask for its theme. Layer scores it with Lyria 3 Pro using the image itself as the reference, so you skip translating a painting into adjectives.
A mood word is a weak brief. Haunting covers a music box and a detuned synth pad alike, and heroic covers a brass fanfare and a chiptune march. A picture closes that gap. A frozen temple under a gathering storm points to a cold theme that builds, and a still, moonlit oasis points to something contemplative, which is what the two examples above came back as.
Words still steer it Name instruments, a tempo or a feeling in the message, and the score follows the words as well as the art.
No art yet Ask for the painting and its score in one message, as with the oasis.
Score each level from its art the day the art lands, then play the whole game's range back to back. Hearing the desert next to the glacier tells you early whether the soundtrack has enough contrast, and a theme found this way gives your composer a reference that already matches the picture.
Themes download as MP3 or WAV, for your engine or your editor. See audio generation for more on music generation in Layer.
For music timed to the second, see orchestral game music. For sets that move with play, see adaptive game music.
Write the sections of an orchestral cue and their lengths, and Layer composes a track that turns exactly where your boss fight, trailer or cutscene does.
Game Music That Switches States on the BeatName your level's states and get exploration, combat and victory cues in one key and tempo, with loops cut to whole bars so your game switches on the beat.
Game Sound Effects Packs That Hold Together in the MixList the moments your game needs sound for and Layer designs the pack: taps, hits, wins and creatures nobody can record, all sounding like one game.
Lyria 3 Pro takes the picture itself as a reference, so the light, weather and setting in the art shape the music directly. Anything you add in the message, such as instruments, a tempo or a feeling, steers it further.
Art with a clear mood and setting. Level art, key art and concept art give the strongest scores. A character portrait works too, but with less setting in the frame, your message has to carry more of the direction.
No. Lyria sets its own length, so "about two minutes" is a target rather than a rule. For music that has to land on an exact second, see [orchestral game music](/use-cases/orchestral-game-music).
Not automatically. Each image scores its own theme, so a desert and a glacier scored from their art will usually differ in key and tempo. That suits a level select. For cues your game crossfades between, see [adaptive game music](/use-cases/adaptive-game-music).
No. Ask Layer to paint the scene first and score the painting in the same message, as in the desert oasis example.
Play it under the level while you build it, or hand it to your composer as a reference that already matches the art.
Create a free Layer account and attach the art you want scored.