Yet another homepage that doesn't tell me what it is. Something something gaming. Is it a lib, piece of hardware..? Too bored to find out after scrolling down. Oh wait, they're addicted to deadlocks. Great.
Suno music is the modern equivalent of sample packs that are like Lego blocks, to allow people to quickly throw together cliches.
It can pass for OK music and good musicians sometimes use stuff like that, too.
But it's much closer to these soulless "London Authentic Jungle" loop sample packs or to "Dance eJay" than to a musical instrument.
I also feel it's not very similar to generative electronic music, which is about control and experimentation in a very different way (generating cliches with generative synths is hard, apart from some ambient drones or meditative arpeggios).
Suno and similar tools are designed to generate cliches from... text.
It doesn't matter that it incorporates AI and does stuff that was thought impossible a couple of years ago.
It's still a pastiche of cliches and not a musical instrument.
And the comic is nice!
Others mentioned sampling and synthesizers here, and I can't think of a comparison that I'd consider more misplaced.
Good sampling is really creative.
And bad sampling is the same as a bland, commercial cover version of a song. Many people don't bother to differentiate, but sampling and cover versions are very different things, and it's rare for both to appear together in one good song.
As for Musk... tbh I think as the vast majority of us want things from other people we temper our behaviour.
But when you have enough fame and money to do what you want the filters can come off and we can be the selfish nasty people we really are. And some people obviously like to play on that too to get air time or just prove a point.
Yeah it seems like rich people lose some of the feedback from society that helps keep people relatively "normal" - you can see it in the names of their children for example (not just Musk).
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