# BrushBeatByte

> A directory and newsletter of AI tools, plugins, workflows and showcases that plug into traditional craft in art, music and games. Tagline: "Made by hand, sharpened by machine."

Every listing includes a training-data label (licensed, consented, open, unknown) and a last-verified date. Showcases include a Hand vs. AI breakdown and are marked unverified until the creator confirms. Sponsored and affiliate items are labeled.

## Data
- [All listings as JSON](https://brushbeatbyte.com/listings.json)
- [Editorial standard](https://brushbeatbyte.com/about/)
- [Disclosures](https://brushbeatbyte.com/disclosures/)

## Art
- [Adobe Firefly](https://brushbeatbyte.com/listing/adobe-firefly/): Tool. Adobe's family of generative models for images, vectors and more, available on the web and built into Creative Cloud apps. Training data: licensed.
- [Bria](https://brushbeatbyte.com/listing/bria/): Tool. A visual generative AI platform and API that says its models are trained only on licensed data with attribution to contributors. Training data: licensed.
- [Clip Studio Paint](https://brushbeatbyte.com/listing/clip-studio-paint/): Tool. A drawing and painting app for comics and illustration that includes AI-assisted features such as auto-colorizing line art and pose detection from photos. Training data: unknown.
- [ComfyUI](https://brushbeatbyte.com/listing/comfyui/): Tool. A node-graph interface for building image (and other media) generation pipelines with diffusion models, run locally or in the cloud. Training data: open.
- [ControlNet](https://brushbeatbyte.com/listing/controlnet/): Tool. A research method and open model set that steers diffusion images with structural inputs such as line art, poses, edges and depth. Training data: open.
- [Fooocus](https://brushbeatbyte.com/listing/fooocus/): Tool. An open-source, simplified image generator built on Stable Diffusion XL that hides most technical settings. Training data: open.
- [Getty Images Generative AI](https://brushbeatbyte.com/listing/getty-images-generative-ai/): Tool. Getty's image generator, trained on its licensed creative library and offered for commercial use. Training data: licensed.
- [Glaze](https://brushbeatbyte.com/listing/glaze/): Tool. A free tool from the University of Chicago SAND Lab that adds subtle changes to artwork to disrupt style mimicry by AI models. Training data: unknown.
- [Invoke](https://brushbeatbyte.com/listing/invoke/): Tool. A creative canvas for diffusion models with layers, regional prompts and inpainting; there is an open-source community edition and a hosted product. Training data: open.
- [Krea](https://brushbeatbyte.com/listing/krea/): Tool. A browser-based creative suite with real-time image generation from shapes and drawings, plus enhancing and video tools. Training data: unknown.
- [Krita AI Diffusion](https://brushbeatbyte.com/listing/krita-ai-diffusion/): Plugin. An open-source plugin that brings Stable Diffusion generation, inpainting and live painting into the free Krita painting app. Training data: open.
- [Leonardo.Ai](https://brushbeatbyte.com/listing/leonardo-ai/): Tool. A web platform for generating and editing images, with a sketch-to-image canvas and model training options. Training data: unknown.
- [Magnific](https://brushbeatbyte.com/listing/magnific/): Tool. A web-based upscaler and enhancer that re-imagines detail as it enlarges, with controls for how much it invents. Training data: unknown.
- [Midjourney](https://brushbeatbyte.com/listing/midjourney/): Tool. A subscription image-generation service known for stylized output, used via its website and Discord. Training data: unknown.
- [Nightshade](https://brushbeatbyte.com/listing/nightshade/): Tool. A free University of Chicago tool that alters images so models trained on them without consent learn distorted concepts. Training data: unknown.
- [Photoshop Generative Fill](https://brushbeatbyte.com/listing/photoshop-generative-fill/): Plugin. A Firefly-powered feature inside Photoshop that adds, removes or extends parts of an image from a text prompt within a selection. Training data: licensed.
- [Sender Unknown (Aziza Kadyri, V&A)](https://brushbeatbyte.com/listing/sender-unknown-aziza-kadyri-v-a/): Hybrid Showcase. A V&A South Kensington commission (on until 10 January 2027) in which a bespoke AI model proposed new suzani-style symbols that women artisans in Nurota, Uzbekistan, then embroidered by hand. Training data: unknown.
- [Sketch → ControlNet → paint-over](https://brushbeatbyte.com/listing/sketch-controlnet-paint-over/): Workflow. Draw a rough sketch by hand, use it as a ControlNet line-art input to explore lighting and color, then repaint the chosen version by hand. Training data: unknown.
- [Stable Diffusion web UI (AUTOMATIC1111)](https://brushbeatbyte.com/listing/stable-diffusion-web-ui-automatic1111/): Tool. A widely used open-source browser interface for running Stable Diffusion models locally, with a large extension ecosystem. Training data: open.
- [Topaz Gigapixel](https://brushbeatbyte.com/listing/topaz-gigapixel/): Tool. Desktop and plugin software from Topaz Labs that enlarges images using AI models while trying to keep detail. Training data: unknown.
- [Vizcom](https://brushbeatbyte.com/listing/vizcom/): Tool. A tool for industrial and product designers that turns hand sketches into rendered images and 3D-like visuals. Training data: unknown.

## Music
- [ACE Studio](https://brushbeatbyte.com/listing/ace-studio/): Tool. An AI singing voice workstation that turns MIDI and lyrics into vocal performances. Training data: unknown.
- [Demucs](https://brushbeatbyte.com/listing/demucs/): Tool. An open-source music source-separation model from Meta research that splits songs into vocals, drums, bass and other stems. Training data: unknown.
- [Hum → stem split → arrange in the DAW](https://brushbeatbyte.com/listing/hum-stem-split-arrange-in-the-daw/): Workflow. Record a hummed or played idea, split a reference into stems for study, and rebuild the arrangement with your own instruments. Training data: unknown.
- [iZotope Neutron](https://brushbeatbyte.com/listing/izotope-neutron/): Plugin. A mixing channel-strip plugin with an assistant that listens to a track and suggests EQ, compression and other starting settings. Training data: unknown.
- [iZotope Ozone](https://brushbeatbyte.com/listing/izotope-ozone/): Plugin. A mastering plugin suite whose Master Assistant analyzes a mix and proposes a starting chain you can then adjust module by module. Training data: unknown.
- [iZotope RX](https://brushbeatbyte.com/listing/izotope-rx/): Tool. Audio repair software and plugins using machine learning for tasks like de-noising, de-clipping and dialogue isolation. Training data: unknown.
- [Kits AI](https://brushbeatbyte.com/listing/kits-ai/): Tool. A voice conversion platform with licensed artist voice models and tools to train your own voice. Training data: unknown.
- [LALAL.AI](https://brushbeatbyte.com/listing/lalal-ai/): Tool. A web and desktop stem-splitter for vocals, instruments and noise. Training data: unknown.
- [LANDR Mastering](https://brushbeatbyte.com/listing/landr-mastering/): Tool. An online automated mastering service, also available as a plugin, with style and loudness options. Training data: unknown.
- [Lemonaide](https://brushbeatbyte.com/listing/lemonaide/): Plugin. An AI melody and MIDI idea generator for producers, available as a plugin. Training data: consented.
- [Logic Pro](https://brushbeatbyte.com/listing/logic-pro/): Tool. Apple's DAW, which includes AI-powered Session Players and Stem Splitter alongside a full traditional recording and editing environment. Training data: unknown.
- [Magenta Studio](https://brushbeatbyte.com/listing/magenta-studio/): Plugin. A free set of MIDI tools from Google's Magenta project for generating, continuing and humanizing patterns, available standalone and for Ableton Live. Training data: unknown.
- [Moises](https://brushbeatbyte.com/listing/moises/): Tool. An app for musicians that separates stems, detects chords and tempo, and helps with practice. Training data: unknown.
- [Neutone](https://brushbeatbyte.com/listing/neutone/): Plugin. A plugin host for running real-time AI audio models, such as timbre transfer, inside a DAW. Training data: unknown.
- [PROTO (Holly Herndon)](https://brushbeatbyte.com/listing/proto-holly-herndon/): Hybrid Showcase. Holly Herndon's 2019 album made with a human vocal ensemble and Spawn, an AI she built with Mat Dryhurst and Jules LaPlace and trained on their own community's voices. Training data: consented.
- [sonible smart:EQ](https://brushbeatbyte.com/listing/sonible-smart-eq/): Plugin. An EQ plugin that analyzes a track and proposes a corrective curve, with group processing across multiple tracks. Training data: unknown.
- [Steinberg SpectraLayers](https://brushbeatbyte.com/listing/steinberg-spectralayers/): Tool. A spectral audio editor with AI-driven unmixing of voices, drums and other sources, plus hands-on spectral painting tools. Training data: unknown.
- [Sung guide → vocal synth → comp](https://brushbeatbyte.com/listing/sung-guide-vocal-synth-comp/): Workflow. Sing a guide melody yourself, program harmonies or alternate voices in a vocal synth, then comp and mix them with the real take. Training data: unknown.
- [Suno](https://brushbeatbyte.com/listing/suno/): Tool. A text-to-song service that generates full tracks with vocals from prompts and lyrics. Training data: unknown.
- [Synplant 2](https://brushbeatbyte.com/listing/synplant-2/): Plugin. A synth plugin from Sonic Charge whose Genopatch feature listens to a sample and grows synth patches that resemble it. Training data: unknown.
- [Synthesizer V](https://brushbeatbyte.com/listing/synthesizer-v/): Tool. Dreamtonics' singing voice synthesis software, using voice databases built from recorded singers. Training data: consented.
- [Udio](https://brushbeatbyte.com/listing/udio/): Tool. A web service that generates music and vocals from text prompts. Training data: unknown.

## Games
- [Adobe Substance 3D Sampler](https://brushbeatbyte.com/listing/adobe-substance-3d-sampler/): Tool. Material authoring software that turns photos into tileable PBR materials, with AI-assisted features like Image to Material. Training data: unknown.
- [Blockade Labs Skybox AI](https://brushbeatbyte.com/listing/blockade-labs-skybox-ai/): Tool. A tool for generating 360-degree skybox environments from prompts and sketches. Training data: unknown.
- [Cascadeur](https://brushbeatbyte.com/listing/cascadeur/): Tool. A 3D keyframe animation tool with AI-assisted posing and physics tools for characters. Training data: unknown.
- [Concept art → AI base mesh → retopo in Blender](https://brushbeatbyte.com/listing/concept-art-ai-base-mesh-retopo-in-blender/): Workflow. Turn your own concept drawing into a rough 3D base mesh, then retopologize, UV and texture it yourself. Training data: unknown.
- [Convai](https://brushbeatbyte.com/listing/convai/): Tool. A platform for conversational AI characters with plugins for Unreal Engine and Unity. Training data: unknown.
- [Dream Textures](https://brushbeatbyte.com/listing/dream-textures/): Plugin. An open-source Blender add-on that brings Stable Diffusion into Blender for textures, concept art and projection. Training data: open.
- [ElevenLabs](https://brushbeatbyte.com/listing/elevenlabs/): Tool. An AI audio platform for text-to-speech voices, voice changing and sound-effect generation. Training data: unknown.
- [Greybox → AI textures → hand cleanup](https://brushbeatbyte.com/listing/greybox-ai-textures-hand-cleanup/): Workflow. Block out a level with simple shapes, generate texture candidates, then clean up seams and add hand detail. Training data: unknown.
- [Inworld AI](https://brushbeatbyte.com/listing/inworld-ai/): Tool. A platform for real-time AI characters and voice in games, with engine integrations. Training data: unknown.
- [Kaedim](https://brushbeatbyte.com/listing/kaedim/): Tool. A service that turns images into game-ready 3D models, combining machine learning with human artist review. Training data: unknown.
- [Ludo.ai](https://brushbeatbyte.com/listing/ludo-ai/): Tool. An AI tool for game concept research, ideation and asset generation, including market research on games. Training data: unknown.
- [Meshy](https://brushbeatbyte.com/listing/meshy/): Tool. A text- and image-to-3D model generator with texturing, exporting to common formats and DCC tools. Training data: unknown.
- [NVIDIA ACE](https://brushbeatbyte.com/listing/nvidia-ace/): Tool. NVIDIA's suite of technologies for building AI-driven digital characters, including speech and facial animation. Training data: unknown.
- [Rosebud AI](https://brushbeatbyte.com/listing/rosebud-ai/): Tool. A browser platform that builds playable game prototypes from text descriptions. Training data: unknown.
- [Scenario](https://brushbeatbyte.com/listing/scenario/): Tool. A platform for generating game art where studios can train custom models on their own art style. Training data: unknown.
- [Tripo](https://brushbeatbyte.com/listing/tripo/): Tool. A text- and image-to-3D model generator aimed at game and 3D artists. Training data: unknown.
- [Unity AI](https://brushbeatbyte.com/listing/unity-ai/): Tool. Unity's AI features built into the Unity Editor for assistance, asset generation and in-editor help. Training data: unknown.