My summary of Suno AI before using it – Creating your own music through generative AI.
How does Suno AI explain itself in the first minute? “Make a song with Suno”, followed by a CTA to make a song. Suno’s website also mentions that its V3 is out now, enabling users to “create full, two-minute songs in seconds.”
How does Suno AI work? When I click on “make a song”, I’m presented with several song options, ranging from “A chill electropop song about a cozy rainy day” to “An infectious new wave song about a place where we used to go”.
I can listen to popular songs that others have produced. I’m not saying that I’d normally would listen to “Guys what is wrong with my cat?” but it does sound like a proper song, and the vocals sound more credible compared to the first time I listened to music created with Google’s MusicLM.
To create a song I need to create a Suno account first, signing in via my Google account. I land on a page where I can create my first song.
There’s a helpful prompt example in the “Song Description” field, but unfortunately my first prompt – “a song about the greatness of New York City in Nineties Hip Hop style” – doesn’t work, triggering a copyright prompt. However, when I run exactly the same prompt the second time, a song is generated:
And yes, Suno generates a respectable sounding Hip Hop track about NYC, reminding me a bit of Run DMC (which technically was more Eighties than Nineties, but hey, I blame that on the quality of my prompt). When I then click on “remix” I can make changes to the song that I’ve generated.
When I click on “generate lyrics”, I expect new lyrics to be created but doesn’t happen. However, when I choose a different style for my track – drill music – the sound of the track changes instantly.
Main learning point: Suno feels very easy to use, and I suspect that the quality of the songs generated depends on the prompts and the genre selected. Suno behaves in a way that we’ve now come to expect LLMs to behave. What data goes into Suno’s LLM and how exact ownership of the music works is more unclear to me, but I love how simple it is to create tracks – vocals and beats and all – in a matter of minutes.
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