Score your piece

Music from words plays the same from start to finish. A score is written to your piece: it builds where the piece builds, hits as the logo lands, and drops back under the voice. Paraplex reads your piece's chapters, cuts and big moments, the assistant writes a plan for each part, and the music is made to those lengths.

Where to find it: the Score window. Open it in any of these ways:

• Press and hold the dock's Audio track button and choose Score this piece · music written to its cuts….
• Choose Menu › Audio › Score this piece….
• On the Sounds panel's Generate tab, with Music chosen, click Score this piece….

Scoring is part of Pro. A score can be up to 10 minutes long.

Past 3 minutes, it's made up to 3 minutes at a time and joined into one clip. Each stretch runs 15 seconds past where the next one takes over, so the music never winds down at a join, and the next continues the music from the 10 seconds before it. The window says how many stretches it takes.

Joining them needs a browser that can write AAC audio, such as Chrome. In one that can't, the window says so before anything is spent.

How your piece is read

The window's first section, The piece, shows your piece as blocks, one for each part of the score. Paraplex starts a new part where the picture changes:

Each part is at least 3 seconds long, about one every six seconds. Over the blocks, a line shows the energy: it rises to the peak and settles after. A white line under the blocks shows where the voice speaks, and the music is written lighter there. Point at a block to see why it starts where it does.

Add a hit

To have the music land a hit at a moment of your own, move the playhead there and click Add a hit at the playhead. Paraplex adds a marker named Hit, and the score puts an accent on it. When it's far enough from the other parts, a new part starts there.

Write the plan

1. In Mood, pick one or more moods: Uplifting, Cinematic, Minimal tech, Playful, Tense, Lo-fi or Corporate.
2. In Notes for the music, add anything else, such as "piano only, about 100 bpm, a big ending".
3. Leave Instrumental checked for music without singing. It's on by default.
4. Click Write the plan.

The assistant looks at the parts and a few frames of your piece, and writes what the music does in each one: "felt piano alone, slow" for the opening, "full strings and a brass hit on the first beat" as the logo lands. Writing the plan costs what a short assistant reply does. If the assistant isn't set up, you get a starter plan written from the parts' roles instead.

Change the plan and make the score

The Plan section lists every part with its times, and a box for what the music does in it.

1. Change any part's words, or the Styles for the whole score, such as genre, instruments and tempo.
2. Click Make the score. The button shows what it costs.

The parts' lengths come from your piece, so they can't be changed here. To move a part, change the cut, and the plan's parts move with it.

What you get

The score lands as one clip on the Music bus, from the start of the piece to its end (its first 10 minutes, on a longer piece).

• Select its layer, and its parts are drawn on its clip in the timeline as labeled blocks.
• A marker is added where each part starts, and on each beat of the music, so clip ends snap to them as you cut to the music. A marker of your own stays as you named it. See Markers.
• When the piece has a voice, the music is ducked under it: it dips while the voice speaks. See Volume and ducking.

All of it is one step of undo. The score is also kept on the Sounds panel's Recent tab, like every take you make.

If a stretch after the first doesn't come back, the stretches already made land as the score, and the window says where it stops. Make the score again to write the rest.

When the cut changes

Select the score's layer, and its Sound panel has a Score section showing the parts it was written to. Move a cut, a chapter or the logo, and the section says what changed, such as "Features starts 1 s later."

1. Click Rewrite to fit…. The Score window opens with the same plan, its parts at their new times.
2. Change the words if you like, and click Rewrite the score.

The new score replaces the old one in the same place, with its markers. Undo brings the old one back. When the piece now has a different number of parts, write the plan again with Write the plan.

Rewrite one part

When one part isn't right, rewrite just that part and keep the rest exactly as it is.

1. Select the score's layer, and in its Score section click Write it again or rewrite a section….
2. In Plan, change the words of the part you want to change.
3. Click Rewrite only this next to that part.

The new part is written to fit between the others, and laid into the score with a short crossfade at each end. Everything outside the part stays exactly as it was, and the markers stay where they are. Undo brings the old part back.

A part can be rewritten while the score still fits the cut. When the cut has changed, rewrite the whole score to fit instead. A score made before 6 November 2026 can only be written again whole, and so can a score longer than 3 minutes, since it's joined from several stretches.

Ask the assistant

Ask "score this to the cut, cinematic" or "write music that builds to the logo". The assistant reads the piece the same way, writes the plan and tells you what it'll cost. Nothing is made until you say yes. It can rewrite a score to fit after you change the cut, too.

Credits and privacy

A score costs credits by its length, the same as music from words. Past 3 minutes, each stretch but the last also counts the 15 seconds it runs on, and each after the first the 10 seconds it continues from; the button's price includes them. With your own ElevenLabs key, it costs no credits, and it's still part of Pro. See AI credits and keys.

To write the plan, the assistant reads your piece's parts and up to six frames of it. The music is made from the plan's words alone.