Suno AI Tutorial | Create Music from Text Prompts (Step-by-Step Guide) | Humanitarians AI

A hands-on Suno AI tutorial shows how to turn a text prompt into a full song, then push further with custom lyrics, voice settings, and the legacy song editor.

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Turning a plain text description into a full song sounds like a stretch, but that's exactly what Suno AI does, and this tutorial walks through the entire process, from a simple one-line prompt to editing a finished custom track.

What Suno AI actually does

Suno is an AI-powered music generator that takes a description, genre, instruments, mood, whatever you specify, and turns it into a full track. It's aimed at anyone who wants to experiment with music without playing an instrument, or who just needs quick background music for a project. The platform runs on a subscription-based credit system once you create an account, with a dashboard showing both your own generated tracks and ones created by other users for inspiration.

Starting simple: the basic prompt

Creating a track starts with a choice between a simpler mode and a more detailed custom mode. In the simple version, you describe the song you want in plain language, which is really just prompt engineering applied to music. An example prompt used here calls for an upbeat pop track with acoustic guitar, claps, and summer vibes, later adjusted to bring in more pop-rock and country influences. Hitting create starts the generation process, and Suno always produces two distinct versions of the same prompt, since it draws on some internal variety even from identical instructions. The two resulting versions can differ meaningfully, one landing more upbeat and fast, the other slower and more laid-back, even though both come from the same text.

Working with custom lyrics

Beyond the simple mode, Suno supports custom lyrics you write or bring in yourself. In the demonstration, previously written lyrics for a song called "Golden Glow" are pasted directly into the tool, paired with a chosen style like acoustic guitar. From there, more advanced controls come into play: you can select a specific voice, including switching to a female voice, adjust a "weirdness" setting that controls how far the output strays from expectations, and adjust style influence, which determines how strictly the output matches your described style. Turning style influence up toward 100 locks the output closely to your description; keeping settings more moderate leaves more room for the AI's own interpretation.

Personas and playlists

Suno also supports personas, letting you save a particular vocal or stylistic identity for reuse across multiple tracks, along with playlists where previously created songs can be saved and referenced as inputs for new generations. That playlist feature effectively lets you build on your own back catalog rather than starting from a blank prompt every time.

Editing finished tracks

Once a track exists, Suno's paid tier unlocks a legacy editor for making changes after the fact. Inside the editor, you can revise lyrics section by section, replace or exclude specific style elements (dropping an acoustic guitar from the mix, for instance), and regenerate a new version based on those edits. The editor also allows selecting and deleting specific song sections, such as removing an unwanted chorus, and duplicating sections you want to repeat. Matching the edited sections carefully matters here, since a poorly blended cut can make it obvious a chunk of the song was removed.

Practical tips for better results

The clearest advice repeated throughout is specificity. A vague prompt like "happy music" produces far less useful results than a detailed one specifying genre, instrumentation, and mood together, the same "upbeat pop track with acoustic guitar, claps, summer vibes" style of prompt used throughout the walkthrough. Trying multiple variations of a prompt helps refine results further, and combining AI-generated tracks with your own manual edits is presented as a reliable way to make a final track stand out rather than sound generic.

Key takeaways

  • Suno AI generates full tracks from text prompts, always producing two distinct versions per generation.
  • Custom lyrics can be pasted in directly and paired with a chosen style, voice, weirdness level, and style influence setting.
  • Personas and playlists let you save vocal identities and reuse previous tracks as building blocks for new songs.
  • The legacy editor, available on paid plans, allows section-by-section lyric edits, style swaps, and deleting or duplicating parts of a song.
  • Specific, detailed prompts consistently outperform vague ones, and trying multiple variations helps refine the final result.

Try it yourself

If you're a content creator, podcaster, or musician curious about AI-generated music, Suno is approachable enough to try with a single simple prompt before moving into custom lyrics and the editor. Starting with a specific, detailed description of genre, instruments, and mood is the fastest way to get a usable result on the first try.

Full transcript(auto-generated, with timestamps)

[0:07]So, hi all. My name is Anikit and today I'm going to show you how to use Seno AI, an incredible web app that lets you, you know, create music with nothing but text and prompts. uh whether you're a content creator, a musician or just curious about AI, this tool makes it easier uh super easy to generate uh unique tracks in seconds just by using prompt engineering. Uh so uh so AI is a AI powered music generator. You simply type in the description like the genre, the instruments, the mood you want and it creates a full track for you. Uh it's great if you don't want to play an

[0:48]Instrument but still want to experiment with music or if you need a quick background music for the projects. Uh so uh here's what Sunno is exactly about. Uh when you log in and create your own account, it has a subscription based credit system. So you need to uh have a full subscription model to uh you know generate peak music. Uh I uh and here's the dashboard after you log into it. Uh you can see your own music or suggested ones as well uh uh that is create that have been created by people. Um to create your own music, what you have to do is just you know go to create

[1:39]Uh go to there's a simpler version of it and then the custom version as well. Uh we'll get to the custom part. Let's start with this one. This is kind of uh this is kind of the simpler version. Let's do this. Uh what you have to do is describe what the song that you want. This is kind of prompt engineering that we talked about. Uh so it it has to be an upbeat pop track with acoustic guitar, claps and summer wibes. Uh I used the same prompt as uh the one that I had already used uh just to show you guys. So maybe a little bit of pop rock

[2:20]Should be present in this. Uh and maybe uh a rea band. Oh, country music. Let's let's do a country music kind of thing. And all you have to do is hit create. So uh that's how that's how it uh starts creating its version on my workspace over here. Uh uh just a background. What you can also do is uh upload your own recording, upload your own recordings or audio files and uh you can give that audio file uh uh a different mix of what you want. You can just describe exactly what uh changes that you want in your song to be. It has to be it won't give you

[3:07]Exactly similar song with a small change or anything. It will change the whole song. It will change the whole mood of the song. uh as uh depending on the uh prompt that you've given. Uh anyways, let's get back to our prompt and we just hit create and it just starts creating its uh this version of uh it does create two versions by the way and uh the two versions are different from each other because uh I guess it has uh its own uh different variety that it goes through. So the first version is created already. >> That's uh that's the version of uh uh

[4:12]That's one of the versions of uh the prompt that we gave. It's pretty wonderful to be honest. Uh it has a pop rock, it has country music. It's it's it was it was it is really really a great uh tool. >> This is the second version that I said it creates always creates two different versions of the song. So >> now this is the upbeat track of it. A little bit faster, a a little bit uh speed into it. And this is kind of a slower wipe than the other one, but uh both of them are pretty wonderful to be honest. Uh the rest of the features in

[5:11]Sunno AI are uh these. So the custom uh custom changes that you can do. So what you can do is you can create your own uh lyrics as well and give it to uh Suno over here. Uh I had already created one part of it of a golden glow song kind of. So what I can do is I can go ahead paste it over here. Uh I just used GBD to create uh some lyrics for my song. Uh we can give it the same uh acoustic guitar kind of vibe uh with maybe I can keep it the same. Keep it exactly the same. The weirdness is some uh so

[6:06]These are the options that you can uh that uh advanced options are customs that you can change. Uh we can change it to a female voice as well. A country music female voice. I'm not sure how that works, but let's see. And uh weirdness is uh it it if you turn this up for wild, you get a wild unexpected result. Let's not do that for now. Let's keep it to the minimum. Maybe 50 is fine. Uh style influence is turned up to match your exact style description. So whatever style that we've put, if you go ahead and put it as 100, it will exactly match what this uh this vibe is all

[6:51]About. Uh but we can you know change it up a bit like uh we can keep it uh different as well so that you know it we can let AI do its thing and stuff like that. You can put in the song. The song was golden something golden glow. Okay. And yeah, these are these are the so these are the personal favorites or something like that. These are personas. You can create your own persona. uh and in suppose uh so you have a playlist of each uh when you create an account and uh what this does is you can use the your own playlist over here. So as I

[7:44]Said you can put in your own audio uh file over here. It's the same thing. Uh any song that you've created already in uh Suno uh you can go to inspiration and go to your uh library playlist, save it into your playlist obviously and uh select that song and it will use that song as uh your own uh file kind of thing. So it's it's uh it's a pretty wonderful tool to be honest. And let's create this version as well. The of golden glow. It does take a while to uh create a bit, but SlowPasoon.

[9:00]>> This is a female version of the Golden Glow as we selected the female voice instead of the male. I don't think we put in country music. That's what I and uh was kind of we worried it would not create a country music with but uh anyways uh going ahead with the tutorial over here uh what we can do next is we can create uh we can edit the songs uh that we've created in my workspace. So all you have to do is go into the it is obviously a pro version. So it's uh it is a paid version. So all you have to do is hit

[9:41]Create uh edit button and it will go to the uh legacy editor session. Yep, here it is. So these are the these are the lyrics that we pasted it over uh over there. Uh here we can do a lot kind lot kind of things. So we first of all we can change the lyrics uh of each and every part. Um uh we can uh replace the style that we want. We can exclude styles that we want. So if you don't want an acoustic guitar into it, we can do that as well. And then hit and it creates a different version again. Uh we can edit this song

[10:28]That we've created. And if you don't want this chorus over here, uh we can just select this part and uh maybe go on and uh or maybe if you want uh or maybe if you want to duplicate this version, you can go ahead and duplicate it. Uh we can delete it as well. Uh so as you see it just deleted the course version over here and >> that actually that actually fit perfectly. But then uh yeah, you just have to match the uh versions of what you're trying to delete and uh equal out a little bit so that it does not seem that uh seem like you've cut the whole

[11:30]Major chunk of your song. But yeah, this is the legacy version. You can save this as your new song. uh stems is something new and it is I'm not sure what this is but uh anyways uh it the it must be an extra new version of so uh that needs to be there but the basic tutorial is all this uh so uh basically my quick tip is uh that uh just be specific with your uh prompts like uh anyways prompt engineering is something that uh is really really wonderful right now uh uh going boom at at the moment and yeah prompt prompts can get you a a very good version of the

[12:24]Song. So instead of just sing happy music or something just just say something like uh as we said pop a upbeat pop track with acoustic guitar claps or some wibes and something like that. And also try to uh uh try multiple variations to refine your results. And remember you can always combine AI generated tracks with your own edits to make them stand out. And uh yeah, that's that's it for uh the Suno AI tutorial. Uh that's how you start creating our own music uh with Sono in just a few minutes. Uh give it a try and see what you come up with. Uh and yeah, thanks.

[13:10]Thank you so much for watching.

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