Suno AI (Product Review)

MAA1
3 min readApr 1, 2024

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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”.

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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.

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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.

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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:

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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.

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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.

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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.

Related links for further learning:

  1. https://www.techradar.com/computing/artificial-intelligence/what-is-suno-ai
  2. https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/suno-ai-chatgpt-music-soul-of-the-machine-1234992365/
  3. https://marcabraham.com/2023/03/08/googles-music-lm-product-review

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MAA1
MAA1

Written by MAA1

Product person, author of "My Product Management Toolkit" and “Managing Product = Managing Tension” — see https://bit.ly/3gH2dOD.

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