Sonilo V1.1 Sound Effects
Sonilo V1.1 Sound Effects generates royalty-free, commercially licensed audio from text or video input with precise synchronization and high technical fidelity.
Overview
What is Sonilo V1.1 Sound Effects
Sonilo V1.1 Sound Effects is a proprietary AI model by Sonilo that generates royalty-free sound effects from text prompts or by analyzing video content. Released in June 2026, it produces high-quality, synchronized audio tracks cleared for commercial use, supporting formats like AAC, MP3, WAV, and FLAC.
Running it privately on Venice
On Venice, Sonilo V1.1 runs with anonymized privacy—your prompts and video inputs are not stored or profiled. This ensures complete audio-generation sovereignty with zero retention, letting creators use the model for sensitive or commercial projects without surveillance. You also pay per second with no subscription lock-in.
Assessment
Strengths and limitations
- Generates royalty-free sound effects from text or video with precise synchronization to on-screen action.
- Output is cleared for commercial use, making it safe for ads, films, games, and monetized content.
- Supports multiple output formats (AAC, MP3, WAV, FLAC) for flexibility in post-production.
- Can auto-detect scenes in video or accept per-segment prompts for fine-grained control.
- High technical fidelity with no clipping, strong stereo wideness, and dynamic range suitable for broadcast.
- Not open-source or self-hostable—proprietary model with no access to weights.
- Requires per-second billing for full-quality output; free tier limited to preview quality.
- No support for real-time generation or streaming—processing is batch-based.
Samples
Sample outputs
Generated on Venice with our standard prompt suite — the same prompts we run through every model of this type, so you can judge it like-for-like.
“An uplifting cinematic orchestral build with soaring strings, warm brass, and a hopeful resolution.”
“A mellow lo-fi hip-hop beat with a soft jazzy piano loop, vinyl crackle, and a relaxed late-night mood.”
Specifications
Datasheet
- Maker
- Sonilo
- Released
- June 18, 2026
- Modality
- Text-to-sound effects, Video-to-sound effects
- Output formats
- AAC, MP3, WAV, FLAC
- Commercial use
- Yes — licensed
- Open weights
- No — proprietary
- Privacy on Venice
- Anonymized — prompts not stored
- Available on Venice since
- Jul 2026
- License
- Proprietary
API
Call it from your code
Venice exposes this model through the REST API. Queue a generation with the model id.
curl https://api.venice.ai/api/v1/audio/queue \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $VENICE_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "sonilo-v1-1-sound-effects",
"prompt": "An uplifting cinematic orchestral build with soaring strings"
}'
# Use the returned queue_id with https://api.venice.ai/api/v1/audio/retrieve.
# Call /audio/complete after downloading if needed.Pricing
What it costs on Venice
Billed per second of audio on Venice: $0 per second.
New Venice accounts include a free daily allowance and 500 welcome credits — no credit card required.
Alternatives
How it compares
| Model | Max resolution | Strongest at | Open weights | Price (Venice) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sonilo V1.1 Sound Effects | — | Synced video SFX, commercial use | No | $0 / sec |
| ElevenLabs Sound Effects v2 | — | High-fidelity SFX from text | No | $0 / sec |
| ACE-Step 1.5 | — | Game-ready SFX generation | No | from $0.03 / track |
| MiniMax Music 2.0 | — | Music and ambient SFX | No | $0.04 / track |
Generates royalty-free, synchronized sound effects from video or text with commercial licensing.
Use cases
What it is good for
- 01Adding foley and sound effects to AI-generated or silent videos.
- 02Game development for quickly prototyping audio assets synced to cutscenes.
- 03Film pre-visualization and ad content creation with licensed audio.
- 04Content creators needing fast, legally safe sound effects without licensing overhead.
- 05Automated video production pipelines requiring synchronized audio generation.
Prompting
Getting better results
Use specific, vivid descriptions (e.g., 'glass shattering with reverb in a large hall') for best results.
For video input, leave the prompt empty to auto-generate effects for all scenes, or specify actions per time range.
Prefer higher credit plans for full-quality exports when finalizing commercial deliverables.
Version history
Initial release with text and video-to-sound effects
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Sonilo V1.1 Sound Effects is an AI model that generates royalty-free sound effects from text descriptions or by analyzing video content. It outputs synchronized audio tracks in AAC, MP3, WAV, or FLAC formats, cleared for commercial use.
On Venice, Sonilo V1.1 Sound Effects is billed per second at $0 per second, with no subscription required. Full commercial use is supported under Venice's anonymized privacy tier.
Yes, on Venice it is free to use with no cost per second. However, full commercial-quality output requires sufficient credits, which are available through free trials or top-ups.
No. Sonilo V1.1 is a proprietary model developed by Sonilo. It is not open-source or self-hostable, and the weights are not publicly available.
Yes. It can analyze a video input and automatically generate sound effects synchronized to on-screen actions, returning a standalone audio track or integrated video.
Yes. All audio generated by Sonilo V1.1 is cleared for commercial use, including ads, films, games, and monetized content, with no additional licensing fees.
Sonilo excels at video-synchronized effects and commercial licensing, while ElevenLabs offers high-fidelity text-to-sound but lacks native video timing. Choose Sonilo for video workflows, ElevenLabs for standalone SFX design.
Run Sonilo V1.1 Sound Effects privately
No prompt logging. No data used for training.