Can AI Compose Music? Test It Yourself at Suno.com

By now, you have probably heard of DALL-E 3 or Midjourney and other prompt-based image generators where you give the bot a bunch of words, and the bot will take those words, interpret them in its own ways, and generate a picture out of what you gave it. The picture can be as simple as Minecraft style blocks or hyper realistic neon cityscapes in 4K. (I am not going to talk about the POTENTIAL legal and moral ramifications of that, that's up to lawyers and philosophers) This is heralded as an advancement in AI. 

What if I tell you that AI can now make music the same way? Give it instructions like you want music of a certain genre, with lyrics (or without), in the style of artist X, add element Y, minimize element Z... What will it end up generating? 

Photo by Marius Masalar on Unsplash

For funsies, I tried the text prompt: "A theme tune about a scifi beach romance, make it lively and romantic, but not too bubbly, synth and futuristic, but not too mechanical, and make it hummable. " and set to "Instrumental". 

Here is what it gave me: https://suno.com/song/9dfa5539-29a9-4fcc-965d-f323404b1811

That's pretty darn impressive! 

So go try this yourself today! (Free registration required, free 10 credits per day, each song is about 1 credit. You can pay for more if you need more, but this is fun to fool around with.)