I've been listening to some Frank Sinatra AI made songs, youtube for the song "Frank Sinatra - where is my mind". It's originally a Pixies song but as as recreation with Frank Sinatra's voice is surprisingly good. I wonder what took to produce that, it seems like there's a lot more artistry than just prompting make a song by artist X as a cover for song Y of artist Z.

Oh that's a nice one. I think you are on to something that if you want to go beyond push button output you really need to think holistically about what you want to achieve.

My experiments taught me that it is an instrument that is easy to approach but hard to master right now at least.

It's kind of weird because you have to play it through writing text, which is super strange.

Everything I have done previously has been very in the moment with keyboards or guitars or whatever. With this I had to put a lot more thought in ahead of time, and try to put myself in the position of the generator and how it might take my prompts and convert them.

There is certainly quite some thinking that has to go on. How to describe the sound you are looking for is a little bit unusual.

I am finding it quite fascinating anyway, and I really believe it can be tasteful if done right and as the tools improve.

As far as covering specific artists, it isn't something I am attempting, it's more about the feel for me. I imagine people who do that have their own tricks and techniques.

As far as I know, Suno blocks any mention of specific artists. Probably you can jailbreak it, but I don't know about that.

All the sounds always sound so blurred together, as if there’s no space between the drum, bass, pad, melody, vocal etc layers

I agree in especially the first one. It was quite a challenge from the original content as the bitrate is quite low still, and in that particular case it was quite severely compressed. I had to dig quite deep to get the headroom back.

The last one was my first attempt.

I think the middle one is okay considering. By the time I got to that I had figured out how to get Suno to create multiple takes with much more open mixes, which left me a lot more latitude in the studio.

I expect I will get better at it, and I don't doubt the compression artifacts and the rest will improve.

To me at least, it is quite impressive where we are at. A ways to go, but very promising.

I agree, the middle one is pretty good. I also love the part of the video where the singer's head appears to be on fire...she's literally smoking! https://youtu.be/mfFV3Cm_Kow?si=R2gU1U4qfkzW04cX&t=48