MeinMMO demon Cortyn experiments with an AI that fulfills many dreams. Because the music AI Suno grabs hold of you and simply won’t let go.
In recent days, I have hardly spent any time playing video games. The reason is that an AI is currently consuming all my free time and providing me with creative possibilities that I simply didn’t have before.
We are talking about Suno.
If you don’t know Suno yet: The website Suno.com offers an AI that allows you to create music. Nearly all music genres are possible. From relaxing lo-fi beats for studying to heavy death metal or even cheesy German pop music, it covers everything. The songs can also include vocals upon request, with countless different styles available.
How much input you give the site is up to you. If you want to put in minimal effort, you can simply enter a rough description of the desired song, such as: “A cheerful song about summer evenings with friends by the campfire.”
That’s completely enough for the AI to produce something surprisingly good. Lyrics are simply generated in the background using ChatGPT, before the rest of the AI works its magic. So you don’t have to be exceptionally creative or have much time to get some exclusive songs.
Better Songs with Your Own Lyrics
The results become much better and significantly more personal when you write the lyrics yourself and also provide some additional information. By giving it a clear structure and telling the AI what the individual verses (“[Verse]”), the chorus (“[Chorus]”), and where you can experiment a bit with the text (“[Bridge]”) are, the songs become much better.
As an example, here’s one of my first creations, which I made for my WoW knife Xal’atath. Regardless of whether you like the music genre or not – what the AI made out of the text is simply impressive to me. Especially the chorus during the refrain has become an earworm for me: Harbinger of the Void
on Suno.
Later, I also tried writing German lyrics and simply wrote lyrics about a situation that every gamer likely knows. The moment when you realize that you’ve forgotten the pizza in the oven. It’s given a musical style of “Industrial Rock” and you end up with a song that sounds great: Das Schwarze Rund
on Suno.
Even in my circle of acquaintances, Suno is currently used a lot. It’s just amazing how creative people are. Here’s a song about our dear Lich King, which I find impressively well done: The Frozen Throne
on Suno by Ticks.
Currently, I am still just getting started with Suno. In recent days, I’ve been working a lot on character songs or silly songs for old friends. It consumes so much of my free time that I hardly have time for anything else besides writing texts and having different styles generated, making small refinements, and in the end having a song to send out.
The best part is that you can test Suno for free. Every day, you can create 10 songs (technically 5 songs in two versions each) and simply play around with the program a bit.
I am so fascinated by the simplicity and the possibilities that I immediately got a pro subscription for a year. Also, because the songs created this way “belong to me” – they do not in the free version, but the rights remain with Suno.
Even if you don’t want to create your own songs at all, it’s worth clicking around on Suno and simply checking out what other people have created.
Suno is Not Perfect – and Some Worries Remain
Of course, that doesn’t mean that I see AI only positively. I still view the whole development half excited and half concerned – precisely because AI, especially when it is fully matured, has such great potential that many cannot quite grasp yet (and I probably can’t either).
But creating songs from your own lyrics, even if you are otherwise musically ungifted – that is a fascination from which I will not be able to break free in the coming months.
Additionally, Suno does have some weaknesses that are gradually being ironed out with new versions. Often, the singing voices still sound a bit metallic, and occasionally, the AI simply “swallows” parts of the lyrics or mixes various lines together that don’t belong together. While this doesn’t happen all the time, it occurs often enough for you to think you’ve just sent a few credits into the void.
In conclusion, I can only say that Suno currently takes up most of my free time and that I have more fun with it than in any video game currently available. It’s a way to express one’s creative side, even if the musical talent only extends to singing along in the shower – and even then only in your head. A similar experience has also been had by our chief editor Leya with an image AI.
