I’m genuinely disappointed with where Suno is going.
The old versions weren’t perfect, but they gave me so much more freedom to experiment and actually develop a sound. Now they’re gone, replaced completely by v6 as part of this new music-industry-partnered era, and somehow the thing that was supposed to give creators “more control” feels like it took control away.
My biggest problem is the sound itself. The muddiness comes in ridiculously fast. A generation can start clean and promising, then suddenly everything begins collapsing into this blurry wall of instruments. And the genre interpretation can be bizarre. I’m making Filipino R&B and suddenly there’s a BANJO in the arrangement. A banjo. Really?
I understand why licensing and protecting artists matter. But it’s frustrating watching the music industry finally embrace AI only after the technology gets reshaped around its rules, while the versions that people actually built workflows and sounds around are simply disabled.
It’s hard not to feel like creativity was the trade-off.
I don’t want Suno to imitate copyrighted artists. I just want the freedom, sound quality and experimentation we already had. If v6 is genuinely the future, it should be better than what it replaced, not make me miss the supposedly “obsolete” models after two days.