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I wasn't expecting to, but I got chills listening to some Suno creations from artists who are clearly very talented at using this new medium.

Much like those of us hammering away at LLMs who eventually get incredible results through persistence, people are doing the same with these other AI tools, creating in an entirely new way.

I'm sure Suno are working hard on this and these AI tools can only come together as fast as we can figure out the UX for all this stuff, but I'm holding out for when I can guide the music with specific melodies using voice or midi.

For "conventional" musicians, we (or at least I) would love to have that level of control. Often we know exactly what it should sound like, but might not have session musicians or expensive VSTs (or patience) on hand to get exactly the sound we want. Currently we make do with what we have - but this tech could allow many to take their existing productions to the next level.



What I've tend to find is that although almost everyone listens to some form of music, the average person tends to like things which are squarely in the middle of the gaussian curve, and that are inherently very predictable as though the creator had chosen the most stastically likely outcome for every creative decision they made while creating it. Similar trends with almost anything creative, cinema, literature, food etc.

This is basically what all the Suno creations sound like to me, which is to say they definitely have a market, but that market isn't for people who have a more than average interest in music.


That sounds really interesting. Would you mind sharing some examples of such creations?


Not OP, but on the off chance you haven't seen this, I found the suno explorer thing quite nice. Hitting random a few times, I'll usually stumble onto something interesting. This was the first demo I heard where some of the AI tunes gave me goosebumps close to what human music does.

https://suno.com/explore/


I'll share something! I really enjoy this artist @kant, it's rap which isn't everyone's cup of tea but here's one of his more approachable songs.

https://suno.com/song/07ab552c-1a76-43f4-a619-21a74e774dbd



I'm not the person you responded to, but these are some examples from someone I know that had accompanying music videos (actual video production) made for them:

Sunscreen: https://youtu.be/VBaWtOHPTZw

Purple Sunset Over Lake 2: https://youtu.be/lD7rSxPncs4


These are terrible


Thanks, I'll let them know.


Please don't break the site guidelines like this, no matter how bad something is or you feel it is.

Maybe you don't owe AI audio creations better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html


I feel I must push back on this dang. I was being kind and not snarky, but critisim was earned as I listened to the tracks that where suggested. Had I said these are wonderful no flag. OP stated something that would lead someone to believe they where as good as grandfather comment description. It was in fact not audioly pleasent despite the great visuals.



They will not.


They probably won't. And if they do probably everyone will ridicule the songs. But maybe they will link the songs and maybe at least half the repliers will say the songs actually are good. I like rooting for the underdog.


Suno with its $125 million VC funding is everything but an underdog my friend.


By underdog I meant the above HN commenter wanting to prove to us that the AI-created songs he likes are actually considered good by others.


I actually have listen to all the links people posted. They are not that bad.

But when they say it can replace Pop music I can only laugh. It is the most boring early 2000 RnB ever created and it souns thin.

Any Aphex Twin model out there?



I listened to it when you posted before. Better than most of the others I have listened wich were all much more "cold".

The visual stuff also helps to make it more powerfull and cohesive.

The bad part is that it wanders a lot to get nowhere and it does not create a climax that bridges with the second part. The same sounds and ambient with a producer behind that creates an arragment for it would be much more powerful.


Definitely more Boards of Canada, but Aphex is a big inspiration behind a lot of my prompts (I really just said that, yeah - it's kind of hilarious talking about generated music):

https://suno.com/song/72fbfb06-4af8-407c-824d-051ac4afd64f


Getting chills from a recording/generated sound isn't indicative of talent in any way.




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