I think by far the biggest piece of advice I can give is “just press the generate button 3 times every time you finish a prompt”. The second biggest is “when you listen to the beginning of a song and it isn’t good, just skip it. You can continue generating from any point in a song, but you cannot take the middle or the end of any song, so if the beginning doesn’t work, you won’t be able to change it”.
Annotations in lyrics are very helpful. Most of our songs have things like “[instrument solo]” and various instructions like that written into the lyrics. They don’t get reliably observed, but good enough to steer the song.
Beyond that, it really depends on the song. I have a lot of detailed taste about what genres work well and which ones don’t, but that’s harder to quickly summarize.
Cherry-picking FTW. I wonder if Udio would be any easier than Suno, due to reportedly higher quality and backwards extension, although it wouldn’t have been available at the time.
I played around yesterday with Udio for like half an hour, but couldn’t get even the start of any usable song out of it.
It seems to me like the sample rate and artifacts are much less bad in Udio than Suno, but it seems to mess up the lyrics much more, and seems a lot less clever about how to fit the music around the lyrics. But I also might have just gotten some bad samples, not sure. I was hoping to play around a bit more.
I think by far the biggest piece of advice I can give is “just press the generate button 3 times every time you finish a prompt”. The second biggest is “when you listen to the beginning of a song and it isn’t good, just skip it. You can continue generating from any point in a song, but you cannot take the middle or the end of any song, so if the beginning doesn’t work, you won’t be able to change it”.
Annotations in lyrics are very helpful. Most of our songs have things like “[instrument solo]” and various instructions like that written into the lyrics. They don’t get reliably observed, but good enough to steer the song.
Beyond that, it really depends on the song. I have a lot of detailed taste about what genres work well and which ones don’t, but that’s harder to quickly summarize.
Cherry-picking FTW. I wonder if Udio would be any easier than Suno, due to reportedly higher quality and backwards extension, although it wouldn’t have been available at the time.
I played around yesterday with Udio for like half an hour, but couldn’t get even the start of any usable song out of it.
It seems to me like the sample rate and artifacts are much less bad in Udio than Suno, but it seems to mess up the lyrics much more, and seems a lot less clever about how to fit the music around the lyrics. But I also might have just gotten some bad samples, not sure. I was hoping to play around a bit more.
Thank you again, much appreciated.