Since AI Music platforms like Udio and Suno have been getting a lot of attention lately, I wanted to get some Hexbears’ opinions on the matter. Have any of you been testing the capabilities of these? Care to share what you’ve made?

Udio seems to be trained on a wider range of niche genres, which I think leads to more diverse sounds that are better at obscuring their AI origins. Suno has a much more limited mainstream range, but you can make an entire concept album by extending clips multiple times before you ‘get the whole song’. You can also finely tune each clip by choosing to extend it very early into the clip to pick out the best parts (though at that point, why not just make the music yourself?)

So far I’ve been using Udio to get more diverse samples, combined with an AI music splitter to isolate the good parts. I then plug them into Suno-generated long tracks to augment limitations from the prompting process. The music still isn’t great (and my editing skills are dirt poor) but I think interesting things can get created this way. Soundcloud link to some example tracks

Adam Neely just released a decent video about AI music and what it lacks, and so even though the critique of capitalist art production that he suggests is pretty milquetoast, I’d recommend it as a mild antidote to all the AI music hype.