Refining a Result

Every Follow-Up Edits What Is There

On the Melodic tab, once a chat has produced a clip, every message you send goes out with that clip attached. The model is told to change only the parts your message names and to hand every other part back unchanged. Ask for something new, such as “add a string pad”, and it arrives as a new layer beside the ones you have. Nothing starts from scratch until you press New Chat.

The Drums tab works differently. A follow-up writes a new beat with the conversation so far in view, rather than editing the last one in place. To build on one particular beat, find it in the Library and use Add to Chat: it becomes the reference for your next beat.

Name the Part You Mean

Say which part to change: “make the bass busier”, “reharmonize the chords, keep the melody”. A part answers to its job (the bass, the chords, the melody), to the name you asked for it with (the horns) and to the instrument on its layer (the trumpet).

The Action and Restyle chips in Quick Params make the common edits without typing: Simplify, Reharmonize, Humanize, Jazzy, Darker and the rest. See Smart Controls.

Removing a Part

To take a part out, name it after a removal word: “remove the horns”, “without the melody”, “drop the chords”. Any of its names works, and Aether puts back any part the model drops unless your message asked for it to go, so a part only leaves when you say so.

Mute and Solo change what you hear, not what the model sees. A muted part still goes out with your next message, and the model keeps writing around it.

Starting Over or Trying Again

• ●New Chat starts fresh. Your next message is a new request rather than an edit, the chat's genre is forgotten, and it resets Quick Params, so set your controls again before you send.
• ●Redo gives a new take on your last request. It sends the same words from the same starting point: a fresh request starts from scratch again, with a different pattern, and an edit works on the clip you had before it, not on the take you are replacing. That take leaves the conversation but stays in undo. Redo works the same way on the Drums tab.
• ●Batch turns one message into 2 to 5 takes you can switch between (see Pro Mode & Batch). On a fresh request each take starts from scratch; after a result, each take is an edit of it, not of the take before. Every take joins the conversation, and Aether remembers six exchanges, so after a batch of five, restate anything important in your next message.

What Aether Remembers

On the Melodic tab, each message carries the words of the last six exchanges and the whole current clip. So the music is never forgotten, but an instruction from early in a long chat can be. Restate it if it still matters.

Once a chat has settled on a genre, it stays there. You don't have to repeat it, and a passing descriptive word will not move the piece into another style halfway through. To change it, name the new genre or subgenre: “make this a bossa nova instead” moves it. A single composer or artist name does not. In a jazz chat, “make the melody more like Chopin” is taken as a note about the melody, not a switch to Classical. Two names together can be enough to switch. Until a chat has a genre, a name is enough to pick one. Setting the Genre menu overrides everything at any point, and New Chat clears the memory along with the conversation.

Say It Once

If you keep adding the same instruction to every message (“keep the melody within an octave”, “ghost notes on the snare”), put it in a custom system prompt instead. It applies to every request on the tab you choose it for, and your message still wins when the two disagree. See Custom System Prompts on AI Providers & Prompts.

Read What It Understood

When a result surprises you, open the Thought panel above it before you rewrite anything. It shows how the model read your request, and in Pro Mode the plan it made before writing a note: the sections, their lengths and which part does what. A plan that misread you means the words need changing. A plan that understood you and chose differently means you can simply ask for the other choice. The panel appears while Show AI reasoning in chat is on in Settings, which it is by default, and batches do not show it. For multi-section pieces and long clips, Pro Mode is worth turning on; see Pro Mode & Batch.