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Suno launches Personas — here’s how to create an AI artist

Pabio November 5, 2024

Suno, the AI music creation platformjust released Personas. The new feature, available only for Pro and Premier plans, allows users to save the “essence” of a song, such as style and singingand reuse it again on different song creations.

Indeed, this offers creators the possibility of building a catalog of songs that appear to have been created by the same group of musicians, not just a random AI algorithm.

You can even give your Suno “persona” a name and image, appearing next to a track as if the character were the performer of that song.

How Suno Persona works

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(Image credit: Flux/Nigel Powell AI Future)

To generate a Persona, navigate to a track you previously created and click Create option, then select Create Personality. At this point you can name it, attach a thumbnail image for easy identification, and add a description.

You can also make the Persona private or public as you wish. Once saved, the settings become available for any new tracks you wish to generate.

I tested the new option for a few hours and found good and average aspects of the process. The benefit was the ease of use of the new feature once created.

The Personas menu appears in the sidebar, with a drop-down list allowing you to select one of your pre-saved Personas while you set up a new track. Simply add or generate lyrics and you’re ready to go.

What are Personas for?

Adding characters solves a big problem with AI music makers like Suno and Audioin that it’s very difficult to make two tracks sound like they were produced by the same artist. There are lengthy workarounds you can use, but ultimately it remains a bit of a lottery, due to the random nature of AI music generation.

But the overall concept is great and something that will greatly improve the entire AI music scene once the technology matures. It will just take a little time to iron out the wrinkles.

Even if you select the same genre details, use a seed, and give detailed instructions in your prompt, there’s a good chance you’ll receive something very different from your previous piece. The ability to create and store a Persona changes all that. You can now simply attach one to your lead creation process and the platform should do the rest.

Unfortunately, I found the results a bit hit or miss. The results were correct for clear genres, like reggae for example, but less so for more generic styles. I imagine it’s difficult to stamp a strong identification with every possible variation of rock or pop, for example.

Vocal coherence between tracks was also a bit lackluster. Vocal fidelity is roughly constant if you squint hard enough. But you can’t currently create, say, your own Bruno Mars-type persona and confidently produce a series of banger tracks using that style.

But the overall concept is great and something that will greatly improve the entire AI music scene once the technology matures. It will just take a little time to iron out the wrinkles. Fortunately, the new Personas option is clearly marked Beta, so it’s probably fair to give them some breathing room and applaud the intention.

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Suno launches Personas — here’s how to create an AI artist

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