I’ll just leave this here…

About a week ago, YouTube decided to show me this video:

While I was aware that AI-generated music was a thing, I had no idea it had gotten this good.

I signed up and spent the next few days playing with SUNO. It produced some pretty amazing and surprising results.

Then, a few days ago, I was shown a video speculating on some new AI music generator that was about to be announced. The claim was it would be 2X better than SUNO.

Yesterday, that service was launched — UDIO (like studio with the ST I guess?). It was down most of the day (overloaded) but late last night I got to play with it, mostly letting it produce random lyrics and tunes

Here is an UDIO generated song about being in love with a VCR:

https://www.udio.com/songs/1t4BXqC7FFw9zGZXic5UCf

Udio looks quite promising, with some features missing from SUNO (like the ability to extend a song and add to the START; SUNO allows you to extend from a time code, only).

Initial testing did not let me make any “complete song” like I have been doing with SUNO, but I expect this must be possible with enough attempts – their gallery is full of them.

Vocal quality of Udio is stunning. SUNO sounds great most of the time, but there is an auto-tune/harmonizer digital sound on vocals sometime. I have not heard that yet on any of the dozens of things I have had Udio create.

The music sounds good, but SUNO seems to generate more “wow, I like this song” tracks than Udio. The three “songs” I had SUNO make are just kind of drifting melodies, with no clear chorus or hook or anything. I have certainly heard songs like that, but right now I’d give SUNO the advantage of making “actual songs” versus tunes.

Check them both out and see what you think.

The state of A.I. music generator is far beyond where I expected it to be. In fact, I did not even think this would ever be possible. But here it is.

I wrote up some lyrics and worked with SUNO until it got something interesting. Here is the 80s rock version:

I wrote the words to this, but SUNO is able to create lyrics as well. If you are not a writer, you can just say “country song about a boy and his dog named Fred, down by the lake on a summer evening” and away it goes.

Speaking of country, I used the same lyrics and did a shorter version as a country song…

The styles of music this thing can make is pretty open – rock, country, doo wop, barbershop quartets, opera, death metal, blues, jazz, etc. Just for fun, here’s an 80s new wave kind of synthesizer pop song:

Music production had already gotten very simple thanks to loops you just drag in to build songs, so the real impressive part of SUNO is that it can create the singing.

Check out https://www.suno.ai and have your mind blown, too. If there is any interest, I will do a video showing what I have learned about using this tool.

Until then…