Mastery Series

Suno [Gen AI App Series]

Claire Prudhomme
Duration: 20 minutes
Date Released: October 2025
Course Level: Beginner to Intermediate
Need original, on-brand music without spending hours searching through stock libraries or wrestling with licensing? This review shows how Suno helps anyone turn simple ideas or lyrics into production-ready tracks in minutes, making it easy to bring creative sound to your projects at the speed of inspiration.

Welcome to the Gen AI Apps Series—rapid-fire, expert-led reviews designed to help you make fast, informed decisions about the latest AI tools. In this edition, we explore Suno, an AI music generator that creates full songs or instrumentals from a plain‑language prompt or structured lyrics. You’ll see how to generate tracks, customize style and structure, extend songs into full arrangements, and export files for professional editing.

Key Questions Addressed
This review answers key questions about this image generation technology, including:
- How quickly can non‑musicians create usable music with Suno?
- What control do I have over lyrics, style, arrangement, and vocals?
- Can Suno maintain continuity when extending a track into multiple parts?
- What outputs do I get on free vs. paid plans, and how do they fit into pro editing workflows?

Who It’s For
This review is designed for:
- Marketers and Content Teams who need unique, on‑brand background music without lengthy licensing searches.
- Creators, Podcasters, and Video Editors seeking a tailored soundtrack.
- Musicians and Producers prototyping ideas and exporting stems for detailed mixing.

What You’ll Do
During this review, you will:
- Watch a hands‑on demo of prompt‑to‑song generation.
- Use Custom Mode to paste structured lyrics and generate multiple versions of a song.
- Toggle Instrumental to create a cinematic corporate track—perfect for background scoring.
- Extend a shorter song by adding new lyrics/sections to build a new, lengthened version of the song.
- Review outputs and pro exports for production finishing in tools like Logic or Ableton.
What You'll Learn:
Generate a song from a simple prompt and compare multiple versions.
Use Custom Mode to supply your own lyrics, style, and title to control arrangement and tone.
Create instrumental tracks for business use, including corporate videos and product launches.
Extend an initial generation into multi‑part songs that preserve vocalist, instrumentation, and feel.
Meet Your Instructor

Claire Prudhomme

Claire Prudhomme is the Marketing Manager of The Artificial Intelligence Show at SmarterX, where she produces multimedia content to help people better understand how AI is shaping marketing and business. With a background in content strategy, photography, and video production, Claire approaches teaching with a storyteller's mindset, making complex ideas feel relatable, relevant, and worth tuning into.

Marketing Manager, SmarterX