Into Oblivion [Suno AI song]

The final bit of Suno nonsense - at least for now. This is, once again, making use of the ability to incorporate your own material into the mix, and is based on a kind of experimental rock riff and progression I made on guitar and bass.

[@MrMusicbyMartin]

I’m fascinated by this: how much of it would you say was ‘yours’ and how much is machine generated? Did you feed it the words? The results are impressive, compared to the last AI song I heard.

[@joelnicholson]

Yeah, I think fascinating is the word ... so, the first 47 seconds or so are 100% "me" - that's the reference point. Enough for it to have an idea of the tone, rhythm, etc. After that the AI takes over - fairly seamlessly, I reckon - with the singing. The lyrics are honestly about 50-50. It gave me a first draft, and I tried to take it into more individual territory. It managed to follow the initial prompt for abstract, non-rhyming lyrics pretty well - but it's all quite hit and miss there. There were probably about 20 or so versions of this which didn't come out like I wanted beforehand - *that's* one of the hardest things ... it'll do quite well for the first 3 and a half minutes then go crazy and comes up with something inappropriate. You then have to scrap the whole thing - it's too fiddly to get it to just re-do, say, a small 15s section. And nailing the *ending* is hard too - that was probably the most effort as it seems to enjoy creating Beethoven-style endlessly crescendo-ing finishes!
I think it's at its best when given a healthy bit of musical reference like this, and it's not great at lyrics on first try usually. I think I'm just enjoying creating some stuff with vocals at the minute, but it's not like my "serious" work ...
A propos of which, I just bought 4ms new Meta module, which is basically like a hardware version of VCV Rack. I think that's going to do wonders in the case, just need to get it all set up and try ... and then that can take over the AI music now I have it a bit more out of my system!

[@MrMusicbyMartin]

@@joelnicholson Thanks Joel, I’m intrigued enough to try it out. It sounds like you’ve had to work to eliminate the AI cliches - but I’d be quite flattered if it tried to stick a Beethoven ending on!
And thanks for the tip about Meta - I’d not heard of this but it looks phenomenal. I’ve written some business applications but never scripted for music. With a device like this, there’s no end of generative applications you could write, I love the idea of a customised response to a CV signal, wow!