--- title: "MiniMax Music 3 on Comfy: Open-Weights Music Model" description: "Run MiniMax Music 3 on Comfy. Open weights for text to music, directed on the canvas alongside every other model, on Comfy Cloud or your own GPU." canonical: https://comfy.org/minimax-music-3/ lang: en index: https://comfy.org/llms.txt --- 00:00 # MiniMax Music 3 is here Full songs up to five minutes in one generation. Feed lyrics and a music description, and get coherent structure, expressive vocals, and evolving arrangements. Quality holds steady across the whole track, and the open weights are free for most commercial use under the MiniMax Community License. [RUN WORKFLOW](https://cloud.comfy.org/?template=audio_minimax_music_3) [LEARN MORE](https://docs.comfy.org/tutorials/audio/minimax/minimax-music-3#minimax-music-3-in-comfyui-ai-music-generation) Open Weight Text to Audio ![Gospel Soul](https://media.comfy.org/website/minimax-music-3/minimax-music3_cover.png) 00:00 Gospel Soul Caption: Global Metadata: Genre: gospel soul — Sunday-morning church band with a vintage soul recording character. BPM: 76 in a 12/8 triplet feel. Key: Eb major. Emotional progression: reverent hush in the intro, testifying build through verse one, full-throated communal celebration at each chorus, joyful vamping release in the outro. Listening scenario: a church service, a family kitchen on Sunday, a moment of gratitude. Production profile: warm vintage analog, ribbon-mic character, natural room bleed, tape compression, no modern electronic elements at all, no synths, no programmed drums. Target duration: approximately 150 seconds. Vocal Details: Male lead, rich gospel baritone with grit and heavy melisma, able to break into a raw falsetto cry on peaks. Verses start restrained and conversational, escalating line by line. Full mixed-gender choir (soprano, alto, tenor, bass) answering on every chorus in call-and-response, singing the hook back to the lead. Improvised lead ad-libs — "yes", "come on", "one more time" — over the choir throughout the second chorus and the outro. Vocals recorded with room bleed and natural plate reverb, never pitch-perfect, human and slightly ragged. Arrangement: Core instruments: Hammond B3 organ with rotary speaker, acoustic grand piano, electric bass (round and melodic), live drum kit with brushes moving to sticks, tambourine, clean electric guitar with light tremolo, hand claps. Intro (0:00-0:14): solo organ swell with slow rotary, piano answering in triplets, no drums, lead vocal humming. Verse 1: piano leads with gospel triplet chords, bass enters walking, drums on brushes only, organ holding pads underneath. Chorus 1: drums switch to sticks, tambourine on the backbeat, choir enters in full four-part harmony, organ opens up to fast rotary. Verse 2: pull the choir out, drop drums back to rim and tambourine to reset the dynamic, keep the bass moving, add guitar comping. Chorus 2: fullest arrangement, choir doubled, organ soloing in the gaps, drum fills between every line, key feel lifting in energy without modulating. Outro: vamp on the hook, drums half-time and heavy, lead ad-libbing freely over the choir repeating the title, ending on one held choir chord with organ tail. Groove: slow 12/8 triplet gospel shuffle, heavy backbeat on 2 and 4, bass walking through passing chords, pushed and lived-in rather than quantized. Textures: rotary organ swirl, room air, tambourine shimmer, hand claps. Lyrics: [Intro] Oh... It all connects Mm, it all connects [Verse] I came in here with nothing but a feeling and a name A blinking empty window and a hunger I can't tame Laid the first one down and let it wait there in the dark Drew a line out to another and I felt it catch a spark One to the next, and the next, and the next Ain't a single thing standing on its own [Chorus] IT ALL CONNECTS — hallelujah, it all connects Every little line I drew, it all connects What I couldn't do alone, somebody left it here for me And it all connects, oh Lord, it all connects [Verse] Somebody in a country I will never get to see Gave away the thing they made and gave it straight to me And I gave mine to a stranger who was struggling with the same Now the whole thing is a river and we're calling it by name No gate, no key, no permission and no price Just a hand and then a hand and then a hand [Chorus] IT ALL CONNECTS — hallelujah, it all connects Every little line I drew, it all connects What I couldn't do alone, somebody left it here for me And it all connects, oh Lord, it all connects [Outro] It all connects (it all connects) Say it one more time now (it all connects) From my hands to your hands Oh, it all connects 00:00 Rock (Instrumental) Caption: Global Metadata: Genre: rock. Subgenre: instrumental guitar rock. BPM: 124. Key: E minor. Scale: natural minor with blues inflections. Emotional progression: confident opening riff to steady groove to soaring emotional solo to a hard finish. Listening scenario: garage rehearsal, driving, workout. Production profile: live band, punchy analog rock mix, real amps, no synths, no electronic drums. Fully instrumental. Arrangement: Primary: lead electric guitar (overdriven tube amp), rhythm electric guitar (crunchy power chords), electric bass, live drum kit. Secondary: light Hammond organ pad under the choruses, tambourine. Section evolution: intro is the main riff on guitar with drum fill entry; first instrumental locks the full band into the groove; solo section drops the rhythm guitar back so the lead can climb with bends, vibrato, and fast runs; second instrumental returns to the main riff heavier; outro ends on a big unison stop with a ringing sustained chord. Groove: straight-ahead 4/4 rock, tight but not quantized. Bass: driving 8th notes locked to the kick. Percussion: hard backbeat on 2 and 4, ride in the solo, crash accents on section changes. Textures: amp grit, string noise, room ambience. Spatial: rhythm guitars hard-panned left and right, lead centered, drums natural stereo, short plate reverb. Lyrics: [instrumental] ## Make your first song 1. Step 01 Write your lyrics Your words, or auto-written from a theme 2. Step 02 Describe the sound Style, mood, instruments 3. Step 03 Generate your song Full track, up to five minutes [RUN WORKFLOW](https://cloud.comfy.org/?template=audio_minimax_music_3) [LEARN MORE](https://docs.comfy.org/tutorials/audio/minimax/minimax-music-3#minimax-music-3-in-comfyui-ai-music-generation) ## Choose a plan Access cloud-powered ComfyUI workflows with straightforward, usage-based pricing. Start free. Upgrade when you're ready. 5 free runs on real GPUs — no credit card required. 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Looking for more flexibility or custom features? [Contact Us](https://comfy.org/contact) *Based on 5s videos created with the Wan 2.2 Image-to-Video template using default settings (81 frames, 18fps, 640x640, 4-step sampler) ## Q&A An open weights music generation model that writes complete songs. Give it lyrics and a description of the sound, and it returns a finished track with vocals and full arrangement. The easiest way to try MiniMax Music 3 is to connect to Comfy Cloud, search the corresponding workflows in the example workflows and run them! To use the model locally, download Comfy Desktop, create a new ComfyUI instance or update an existing one, search MiniMax Music 3 in the example workflows, download the models and run. The model accepts two complementary inputs: • Lyrics: define the words to be sung and may include explicit section tags such as [Intro], [Verse], [Pre-Chorus], [Chorus], [Post-Chorus], [Bridge], [Instrumental], [Solo], and [Outro]. • Music description: defines the musical style, emotional progression, vocal performance, instrumentation, arrangement, and production profile. For precise control, we recommend using a Structured Caption with three sections: • Global Metadata: genre, subgenre, BPM, key, scale, emotional progression, listening scenario, and production profile. • Vocal Details: vocal gender, timbre, performance style, harmony, backing vocals, and vocal effects. • Arrangement: primary and secondary instruments, section-level instrument evolution, groove, bass, percussion, textures, and spatial effects. This representation allows the model to follow not only a global style, but also the musical development of the song over time. Up to five minutes in a single generation. Structure holds across the full length, so melody, rhythm, and vocal identity stay consistent from intro to outro. Yes. You can set gender, timbre, performance style, harmony, backing vocals, and effects. 32 kHz, 16-bit stereo WAV. Yes. MiniMax Music 3 is open weight under the [MiniMax Community License](https://huggingface.co/MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-Music3/blob/main/LICENSE), free to use, including commercially, for companies under 20 million US dollars in yearly revenue. Yes, for companies under 20 million US dollars in yearly revenue, under the MiniMax Community License. Above that threshold you need MiniMax authorization, which [a MiniMax commercial license through Comfy](https://comfy.org/minimax/license) covers. ## One engine, every way to run it Run MiniMax Music 3 in the browser today. Batch with the API, or bring it in-house. [Comfy Desktop Run ComfyUI on your own hardware. LEARN MORE](https://comfy.org/download) [Comfy Cloud The full power of ComfyUI from anywhere. 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