# SteerMusic: Enhanced Musical Consistency for Zero-shot Text-guided and Personalized Music Editing

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.10826 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2504.10826/

## Key facts

- Cited by 7 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 15 Apr 2025.

## Built on by (most cited first, 7 of 7)

- [TADA! Tuning Audio Diffusion Models through Activation Steering](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2602.11910/) (2026)
- [Audio-Visual Intelligence in Large Foundation Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2605.04045/) (2026)
- [Evaluating Music Context Preservation: A Multi-facet Framework for Music Editing Systems](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2512.14629/) (2025)
- [DirectAudioEdit: Inversion-Free Text-Guided Audio Editing via Diffusion Prediction Contrast](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2606.07356/) (2026)
- [Virtual Consistency for Audio Editing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2509.17219/) (2025)
- [MusRec: Zero-Shot Text-to-Music Editing via Rectified Flow and Diffusion Transformers](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2511.04376/) (2025)
- [FlowSonic: Stable Zero-Shot Music Editing via High-Order Trajectory Integration](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2607.17526/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Music editing is an important step in music production, which has broad applications, including game development and film production. Most existing zero-shot text-guided editing methods rely on pretrained diffusion models by involving forward-backward diffusion processes. However, these methods often struggle to preserve the musical content. Additionally, text instructions alone usually fail to accurately describe the desired music. In this paper, we propose two music editing methods that improve the consistency between the original and edited music by leveraging score distillation. The first method, SteerMusic, is a coarse-grained zero-shot editing approach using delta denoising score. The second method, SteerMusic+, enables fine-grained personalized music editing by manipulating a concept token that represents a user-defined musical style. SteerMusic+ allows for the editing of music into user-defined musical styles that cannot be achieved by the text instructions alone. Experimental results show that our methods outperform existing approaches in preserving both music content consistency and editing fidelity. User studies further validate that our methods achieve superior music editing quality.