Roland launches Melody Flip — generative AI music plugin for DAWs

On 4 Sep 2026 The Verge covered Roland’s Melody Flip, the company’s first generative-AI music plugin for digital audio workstations. Instead of finished vocal tracks like Suno/Udio, it ships ~250 themed Palettes and can invent melody, chord progressions, basslines, or drums — or build from a reference track — with controls mainly for genre, note density, BPM, and key. Outputs skew toward simple General MIDI-style tones intended as sparks you export as MIDI into stronger synths. The piece frames the launch against musician skepticism toward generative AI after Roland’s recent hardware comeback (P-6, SH-4d, Gaia 2, TR-1000).