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Suno AI Adds Drums, Vocals to Music Generation Tools
Suno CEO says typing prompts ‘really active’ as AI adds drums, vocals, stems
Is typing a few words into a text box "active music creation"? Suno’s CEO seems to think so, but the company’s new Studio feature tells a different story. It adds drums, vocals, and stem separation, promising deeper control.
Yet for all the upgraded tools, the core act remains: you prompt, the AI produces. Then you edit. That editing, chopping up AI-generated tracks, is certainly more involved than hitting a button.
It’s still a far cry from playing an instrument, programming a beat, or even dragging a MIDI note. So when Shulman calls prompting "really active," the gap between marketing and reality feels, well, pretty passive. And to access that "active" editing?
You’ll need a Premier plan at $24 a month.
But it can also generate drum and vocal tracks completely from its AI model. In fact, it seems primarily designed for deep dive editing and stem separation of songs you've already created using Suno's prompt-based Create. And while chopping up AI-created tracks to fine-tune a song is certainly more involved than simply pressing a button and accepting whatever Suno v5 spits out, I wouldn't call it "really active." So maybe Shulman simply means that Suno Studio is accomplishing the company's stated goal of bringing "interactive music tools to the average person." Well, to gain access to Suno Studio, you need to shell out for a Premier plan, which starts at $24 a month, or $288 a year.
Typing a prompt and hitting enter is not composition. It’s delegation. Suno’s CEO may call it “really active,” but activity without friction isn’t creation, it’s curation.
The real cost of Suno Studio isn’t the $288 annual subscription; it’s the admission that the magic of AI music still needs human hands to be anything more than a novelty. And that’s the truth Shulman’s marketing obscures: the most active part of music making isn’t the typing. It’s the listening, the cutting, the rejection of what the machine offers.
Suno has built a tool that demands you pay for the privilege of doing the work it promised to skip. That’s not a studio. That’s a tollbooth on the road to someone else’s idea of a song.
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Common Questions Answered
How are Suno's latest AI features changing music creation?
Suno's new update allows users to generate and manipulate drum and vocal tracks directly through its AI model. The platform now offers more advanced editing capabilities, enabling musicians and hobbyists to dive deeper into track manipulation and stem separation.
What improvements does Suno's AI model offer for music generation?
The latest Suno AI update introduces more sophisticated track editing features, including the ability to generate drum and vocal tracks from scratch. Users can now perform more granular song editing, moving beyond simple text-to-song generation to more complex music creation processes.
What did Suno's CEO suggest about user engagement with the platform?
Suno's CEO highlighted growing user engagement with the platform's prompt-based creation tool. While claims of 'really active' engagement might be slightly overstated, the new features suggest increasing user interest in AI-powered music generation and editing.
Further Reading
- Papers with Code - Latest NLP Research — Papers with Code
- Hugging Face Daily Papers — Hugging Face
- ArXiv CS.CL (Computation and Language) — ArXiv
