Suno
AI music generation, from lyrics or a hummed melody to a full produced song; free tier, about $8 for a polished track.
AI music generation, from lyrics and a hummed melody to a full produced song. Free tier, with about $8 for a polished song.
What the chat uses it for
- Custom Purim songs with your year's theme, town, and even guests' names.
- Niggun production from a voice recording: sing into the phone, and Suno turns it into a full arrangement. "Rivals Tzama quality."
- Sefira-period a-cappella: "If you want some sefira entertainment you can turn any song into acapella with Suno."
- Chanukkah event theme songs.
Workflow
- Lyrics: have ChatGPT or Gemini write Purim, Chanukah, or event-themed lyrics including local color (town name, year, theme).
- Music: paste the lyrics and a style cue into Suno.
- Cover existing tunes: hit "cover" in Suno instead of generating a new song; it produces a version of your tune with new vocals and production.
- Pronunciation fix for Hebrew and Yiddish: write the transliteration as
Khabad/samayakh, notChabad/samayach.
Strengths
- Free now (it used to be paid).
- Voice to full production is uncanny.
- Cover mode preserves an existing tune.
Weaknesses
- Mispronounces Hebrew and Yiddish unless you transliterate manually.
- Style consistency across multiple songs is hit-or-miss.
Related toolkit
- BasicPitch (Spotify, free), audio to MIDI.
- MuseScore (free), MIDI to formal sheet music.
- Remusic.ai, an AI sheet-music generator.
- Moises.app, voice removal and a-cappella extraction. Free.
- AI Galaxy Acapella, at
aigalaxy.app/acapella. - NovelEffect, sound effects with voice recognition (children's books).
The full free sheet-music pipeline:
Step 1: Convert audio to MIDI using BasicPitch (free, very accurate for melody), at basicpitch.spotify.com.
Step 2: Open the MIDI in MuseScore (also free), at musescore.org. It auto-converts MIDI notes to formal sheet music. Clean up the timing (quantize to quarter or eighth notes), add lyrics or chords if needed, and export to PDF, MusicXML, or PNG.
Related
- Hebrew & Yiddish, for pronunciation tricks.
- Master Prompts, for lyrics-writing prompts.
- ElevenLabs, the text-to-speech counterpart for spoken Hebrew.
- Toolbox directory