[andrewclunn]

I've been doing music composition and songwriting as a hobby for a decade. 4.0 is where Suno added enough features where workshopping things conceptually there first made it worth it, even for someone who can and often will, break apart stems into composite instruments and then manually adjust as needed. People always worry about what this means at the low effort "spray and pray" approach to music, but ultimately, it also allows for faster and cheaper iteration and development for all involved. Is the finished product ultimately "better" though? You be the judge.

For comparison, here's a song where I forced myself to do everything within Suno (took less than a week):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6mJcXxoppc

And here's one where I did the manual composition, worked with session artists, and it took a couple months and cost me several hundred dollars:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5JcEnU-x3s