Suno
AI music generator that creates songs with vocals and instrumentation from text prompts or audio.
Liked for turning hummed tunes and personal lyrics into finished songs123, and by musicians for covering their own beats and arrangements or generating stems and drum parts.4567 Caveats include output that sounds competent but has nothing to say8, prompt-only results that range from "meh" to good, and the lack of an open source alternative.910
Why people recommend it
Personal songs · 3
Commenters made songs from their own lyrics, humming or vacation stories, including a wedding walk-out tune.
“hummed it into Suno, generated the song. I love listening to it.”
“This time I created a song with Suno that fits the clips and includes some funny anecdotes from our vacation.”
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Cover feature · 2
Uploading your own beat or arrangement and having Suno cover it gives strong results.
“when I upload semi finished beat I made and prompt it to cover it the results consistently leave me speechless!”
“then convert the arrangement using the cover feature in Suno.”
Stems and parts · 2
Can generate stems, single instruments or drum parts to use in a wider production workflow.
“you can get the stems out of suno, you can gen just one instrument, just a sound, just an a cappella”
“say I use Suno to program some drums for me so I can record my guitar on top”
Mood listening · 2
Users keep their Suno songs in regular playlists and use them for specific moods.
“I have a few Suno songs I’m fond of when I feel a specific mood strike me.”
“I created a lot of songs in Suno which I really really like”
Fun to use · 1
Someone with Ableton and Logic Pro experience was blown away and found it very fun.
“I used Suno. I've played around with music production using things like Ableton and Logic Pro and I was completely blown away by Suno.”
Caveats and dissent
Hollow output · 1
Generated music can sound competent but feel like it has nothing to say.
“Suno generated music has a very unpleasant feeling of sounding like competent music with nothing to say.”
Prompt-only variance · 1
Results from text prompts alone range from "meh" to "that's good", however well the prompt is written.
“when I upload semi finished beat I made and prompt it to cover it the results consistently leave me speechless!”
Not open source · 1
One commenter wants an open source alternative to Suno.
“How I yearn for an open source alternative to Suno.AI”
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All comments 13
“Suno generated music has a very unpleasant feeling of sounding like competent music with nothing to say.”
“I use Suno and I've already noticed this.”
“hummed it into Suno, generated the song. I love listening to it.”
“This time I created a song with Suno that fits the clips and includes some funny anecdotes from our vacation.”
“I have a few Suno songs I’m fond of when I feel a specific mood strike me.”
“I used Suno. I've played around with music production using things like Ableton and Logic Pro and I was completely blown away by Suno.”
“I made a suno.ai tune to walk out for my wedding to”
“How I yearn for an open source alternative to Suno.AI”
“I created a lot of songs in Suno which I really really like”
“then convert the arrangement using the cover feature in Suno.”
“you can get the stems out of suno, you can gen just one instrument, just a sound, just an a cappella”
“say I use Suno to program some drums for me so I can record my guitar on top”
“when I upload semi finished beat I made and prompt it to cover it the results consistently leave me speechless!”